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Sergey Brin is funding groups opposed to a one-time 5 percent tax that would fund Medicaid and public schools.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill in Boise said in an 81-page ruling issued late on Thursday that the right to a health-preserving abortion is protected by the 14th ‌Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees due process and equal protection under the law.

Women Bore All of July’s Job Losses

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The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.

When Jim Allen, the elections director for Delaware County, Pennsylvania, recently ran a training session for poll workers, he began a conversation about a topic he’d never previously had to address during training: prediction markets. “There was one person who stood up, and they said, ‘Well, what if we just want to make a minor bet on what turnout will be, that’ll keep things interesting?’ And we said: ‘No, this is all bad,’” Allen, who oversees 383 precincts, recounts.

The Hideout denied Kaitie Sorber equal restroom access, banned her after she spoke out, and was ordered to pay damages and change its policy.

When she wanted to confront Americans about the consequences of their actions – or inactions – in Gaza, Poh Si Teng reached for a genre with mass popular appeal: the medical drama.

On October 4, 2025, Joaquin Deno attended his granddaughter’s birthday party in Sanford, Florida. At the end of the night, he headed to his daughter’s house.

A longtime Republican living in California says the Trump administration’s continuing actions to target transgender youth take a personal toll.

The Sunrise Movement has long preached nonviolence even as it pursues aggressive tactics, such as making a racket outside of the hotels where ICE agents sleep.

Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his drinking water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.

Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White’s WNBA stunt isn’t about protecting women’s sports. It’s mockery with real consequences.

At long last, the voice we didn’t need and certainly didn’t ask for has entered the WNBA culture war chat: Enes Kanter Freedom.

The hardest thing about growing up queer isn’t being different. It’s what adults like conservatives in King George County do because of it, writes John Casey.

The use of AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, has quickly become commonplace in Congress with practically no oversight.

“Unbelievably” is doing a lot of work here, none of which Trump intended….

Carlson said that the false allegation about abuse of minors was a product of Israel’s misinformation campaign and was falsely attributed by former US intelligence officials to Russian propaganda.

Joins Trump’s war on “Far-Left Extremism”

Autumn Hill (a trans woman) was sentenced to 50 years of prison in a men’s facility for attending the Prairieland anti-ICE protest. She left before shots were fired. She did nothing but legally exercise her first amendment rights.

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Cornell University is reneging on its pledge to help two graduate students avoid immigration detention by threatening to cut their funding if they don’t return to the United States, where the Trump administration has targeted them for possible deportation over their participation in a pro-Palestine protest.

Nearly 4 out of 5 young voters described the US economy using negative terms.

New research debunks one of the most prevalent right-wing myths of the second Trump administration.

The pay gap between executives and their employees has widened from 2024 to 2025, with chief executives making 312 times what their median worker earned, according to the AFL-CIO, the largest coalition of labour unions in the United States.

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As The New York Times reported, days after Pretti was killed in the street as he tried to help a woman who had been violently pushed by the agents, the DHS office in St. Paul opened an investigation into groups including the climate-focused Sunrise Movement, major labor groups like the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Democratic Socialists of America, and a collective called Direct Action Minnesota (DAMN).

Meta got a data center and the community got a movie night!

Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges tied to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.