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Trump’s Policies Have US States Eyeing Offshore Wind Power From Canada and Elsewhere

Wind farm in Nova Scotia, Canada. Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer...

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Darius Snieckus

The Pentagon Signs Up for Grok, Days After the Chatbot’s Antisemitic Meltdown

Elon Musk listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in...

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Arianna Coghill

Now It’s Epstein Forever 

Mother Jones illustration; Davidoff Studios/Getty “We’re on one Team, MAGA,” Donald Trump wrote on TruthSocial over the weekend, “and I don’t like...

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Anna Merlan

Let’s Count All the Ways Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Angry With President Trump

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s fealty to President Donald Trump has, for the most part, seemed nearly unshakable. She has compared him to...

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Julianne Mcshane

Trump Just Made It OK to Continue Paying Disabled Workers Peanuts

Imago/Zuma On July 7, the US Department of Labor formally withdrew its plan for a rule—introduced during the Biden administration—that would...

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Julia Métraux

Red States, Defying Reality, Are Reclassifying Gas as a “Green” Fuel

Lylla Younes/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the  Climate Desk collaboration. In Louisiana,...

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Sophie Hurwitz

The Club World Cup Was a Showcase for Donald Trump’s America

President Donald Trump crashes Chelsea's trophy celebration after the Club World Cup final. Imago/Zuma Press In an administration beset by self-...

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Tim Murphy

Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates and Trump Couldn’t Be Happier

Pastor Paula White speaks as President Donald Trump listens during the White House Faith Office luncheon in the State Dining Room, Monday, July 14,...

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Kiera Butler

We May Have to Take Climate Risks Into Our Own Hands Now

Firefighters in Pacific Palisades, California, January 8, 2025. Jason Ryan/AP This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here...

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Heather Hansman

I Watched Lara Trump’s “Interview” With the President So You Don’t Have To

President Donald Trump and his daughter-in-law Lara Trump at the Republican National Convention last July Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA On...

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Julianne Mcshane

One Year After Assassination Attempt, MAGA Reiterates “God Spared Trump”

Secret Service agents shielded President Donald Trump after the shooting at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last July. Evan Vucci/AP One year ago...

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Julianne Mcshane

Trump Says He’ll Slap 30 Percent Tariffs on Mexico and the EU. Truth or TACO?

President Donald Trump shows off an executive order imposing tariffs on foreign trading partners, April 2, 2025. Evan Vucci—AP On Saturday morning,...

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Abby Vesoulis

No, Democrats Aren’t Controlling the Weather. Neither Is Anyone Else.

The Guadalupe River flows past a make-shift memorial in Kerrville, Texas. Eric Gay/AP Everything is a conspiracy theory if you don’t know how...

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Garrison Hayes

Trump Threatens to Revoke the Citizenship of Celebrity Critic Rosie O’Donnell

Rosie O'Donnell at an awards ceremony in New York City, May 4, 2019. Anthony Behar/SIPA via AP President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to...

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Abby Vesoulis

Is the US Military Poised to Experience a New Surge in Conscientious Objectors?

Hrisanthi Pickett illustration; photos by Alex Wilkinson and courtesy of Joy Metzler This was created by  The War Horse , a nonprofit news...

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Hope Hodge Seck

First Came the Wildfires—then the Floods, and the Water Crises

An excavator piles debris alongside the Gallinas River on Aug. 9, 2022, in Gallinas, N.M. Brittany Peterson/AP This story was originally published...

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Kylie Mohr