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On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump said that he would consider pardoning Eric Adams if the New York City mayor is convicted on charges related to...
Seven Democratic senators are demanding answers from Dr. Mehmet Oz, Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,...
Joe Biden made history as the first president to openly oppose the death penalty, vowing on the campaign trail to push legislation to abolish the...
Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via AP Since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump has seized headlines with a series of alarming...
Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via AP Since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump has seized headlines with a series of alarming...
On Monday, Donald Trump appeared to confirm that he is willing—even eager—to declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out his...
AP Photo/Steve Helber On Wednesday, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s decision to remove...
AP Photo/Cliff Owen On Friday, a Virginia judge ruled that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s recent purge of close to two thousand voters from...
AP Photo/Matt Rourke Elon Musk’s obsessive quest to get Donald Trump into the White House has taken a desperate turn. On Thursday, the tech CEO...
AP Photo/Matt Rourke Elon Musk’s obsessive quest to get Donald Trump into the White House has taken a desperate turn. On Friday, the tech CEO...
Barack Obama speaks during a rally for Kamala Harris on Thursday, October 10, 2024. Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty With less than a...
President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John's Church across Lafayette Park from the White House Monday, June 1, 2020, in...
AP Photo/Nati Harnik In June, Oklahoma’s Trump-supporting top school official, Ryan Walters, ordered the state’s schools to teach the Bible in...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP Freddie “Khalil” Owens. Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams. Emmanuel Littlejohn. Travis Mullis. Alan Eugene...
Police and protesters gather outside of a Brownsville Brooklyn subway station following a shooting on Sunday of a subway fare evader on September 17,...
Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty A bomb threat sent to “multiple agencies and media outlets” in Springfield, Ohio, forced the closure of the town’s...
AP Photo/John Locher As my colleague David Corn put it, Donald Trump lost the first presidential debate against Kamala Harris by simply being...
AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah I’m no legal expert, but I’ve got a sneaky suspicion that if you’ve just asked a judge to reconsider your guilty...
Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA On Thursday, the Biden administration announced that—after months of negotiations—it had finally struck a deal with...
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) speaks during a campaign rally at Middletown High School on July 22, 2024 in Middletown,...
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Turning Point Believers' Summit, Friday, July 26, 2024, in West Palm...
Last week, at J.D. Vance’s first rally as the GOP’s vice-presidential nominee, Ohio state Sen. George Lang said that civil war would be necessary...
Illinois State Police On Monday, an Illinois county sheriff’s department released body camera footage showing the fatal shooting of a Black woman...
Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA Even after the attempted assassination of their presidential candidate, the GOP remains focused on being shitty: During a...
Paul Sancya/AP Since kicking off his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s team has tried everything to appeal to Black voters. In February,...
Olivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa USAOlivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa USA One bright spot for President Joe Biden as he defended his decision to remain in the...
John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images On Tuesday, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a landmark advisory declaring...
Mother Jones illustration; Robin Rayne/ZUMA; Matt Rourke/AP Last Friday, my colleague Stephanie Mencimer had the distinct honor—or...
After the 2020 police killing of George Floyd, dozens of schools bearing names that honored Confederate figures renamed themselves. The move came...
The hush money trial of former President Trump begins Monday with jury selection. Jeenah Moon/AP So, here we are. The first day of the first...
Palestinians transporting the bodies of employees from the World Central Kitchen killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to the Hamas-run Gaza...
Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday after a support column was struck by a vessel. Karl Merton Ferron/The Baltimore Sun/ZUMA ...
Alex Gallardo/AP Racist pseudo-science is making a comeback thanks to Elon Musk. Recently, the tech billionaire has been retweeting prominent race...
Screenshot On Friday, a YouTube Music contractor named Jack Benedict took the podium before Austin’s City Council. He was there to urge the council...
Katie Godowski/AP On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education announced an investigation into an Oklahoma school district for allegedly failing to...
Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via AP A 2021 University of Pittsburgh study, promoted by the American Psychological Association, found that not only...
Stephanie Scarbrough/AP On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced it would forgive more than 150,000 borrowers’ student loans, totaling a...
J. Scott Applewhite/AP On Tuesday, Democrat Tom Suozzi was elected to replace indicted former GOP Rep. George Santos of New York in a special House...
John Locher/AP Roughly two months ago, Donald Trump reminded voters of his authoritarian tendencies when the former president expressed interest in...
FILE - Alabama's lethal injection chamber at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., is pictured in this Oct. 7, 2002 file photo. Kenneth Smith,...
Sue Ogrocki/AP Today, Alabama will attempt to kill 58-year-old Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas—an untested execution method that experts...
Eric Gay/AP The police response to the May 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which killed two teachers and 19 elementary school students at Robb...
Meg Kinnard/AP On Tuesday morning, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said that she’d no longer attend Republican primary debates unless Donald...
You probably didn’t watch the GOP debates, and now you may not have to read headlines about them either. On Tuesday, fresh off a disappointing third...
Avi Ohayon/AP Lawyers representing South Africa on Thursday said that Israeli soldiers interpreted a biblical reference made by Benjamin Netanyahu...
Craig Hudson/AP After a high-profile incident in which a Black teen was punished over the length of his hair, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) is pushing for...
Press Association/AP Images SpaceX, the space flight company owned by Elon Musk, illegally fired eight employees after they criticized Musk’s...
John Lamparski/AP After more than a year of Gov. Greg Abbott continuously busing as many as 150,000 migrants to US sanctuary cities, leaders in some...
Richard Vogel/AP Abnormally large waves, some as high as 40 feet, have been pummelling Southern California’s coastal communities since Thursday,...
Stephen Zenner/AP At least 22 states have a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youths. But, as of Friday, Ohio is not one of them. In a...