President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is pushing to force the recusal of seven Minnesota federal judges overseeing at least 50 active immigration cases, a move that legal experts and civil society advocates warn represents a direct assault on judicial independence.…
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is drawing a hard line on a proposed $67 billion merger between Dominion Energy and NextEra Energy, filing expert testimony with the State Corporation Commission this week that sets consumer protections as a non-negotiable precondition for…
JPMorgan Chase announced Monday that its Security and Resiliency Initiative — a sweeping, decade-long, $1.5 trillion commitment to financing industries deemed critical to national security and economic stability — has completed a striking first year, deploying $5 billion in equity…
A Question of Whose Voices Belong The request seemed straightforward enough. In late August, filmmaker Eli Steele and his team reached out to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture — one of the most visited institutions…
What did scientists actually find, and why does it matter? A landmark long-term study from Germany has uncovered something that challenges a widely held assumption in climate science: certain forest soils are not merely passive bystanders in the methane cycle…
China increased its research and development spending by 8.2% in 2025, pushing total investment past $583 billion and widening a strategic gap with the United States, where the Trump administration is pursuing some of the deepest cuts to federal science…
New York City has opened a 90-day window for homeowners and small business owners to settle outstanding municipal fine debt at a discount — and for many working-class New Yorkers buried under compounding interest, the clock is already running. Mayor…
A loaded .22-caliber handgun arrived inside a student’s backpack at Moores Mill Intermediate School in Madison County, Alabama, last Friday morning. The school’s OpenGate weapons detection system flagged the bag during routine arrival screening, a School Resource Officer and staff…
Republicans thought they were exposing a rogue prosecutor. They exposed their own president. A trove of donor records released by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to discredit special counsel Jack Smith has instead handed analysts a detailed paper trail…
A measles exposure warning issued by the Alabama Department of Public Health this week is not an isolated scare — it is a local symptom of a national public health failure. The central fact is this: measles, a disease that…