Hundreds of thousands of people live around that air base, and some of their homes abut the site’s perimeter fence, just yards from the contaminated areas. And less than 1,500 feet away is a major river that flows into Ho Chi Minh City, population 9 million.

NEW: An NPR review of thousands of pages of records across a dozen+ federal lawsuits finds an alarming pattern across agencies, where DOGE has given conflicting information about what data it has accessed, who has that access, and most importantly — why. npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-…

RFK Jr. began eliminating thousands of jobs across HHS in an early-morning purge that cut off people's access with no notice—including for some already at work. A comprehensive accounting from the POLITICO health team: politico.com/news/2025/04/0…

To illustrate just how nonsensically these tariffs were calculated, take the example of Lesotho, one of the poorest countries in Africa with just $2.4 billion in annual GDP, which is being struck with a 50% tariff rate under the Trump plan, the highest rate among all countries on

This is a big deal. Wall Street analysts self-censoring their research is never a good thing, especially someone like Mike Cembalest. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

It was not just Signal leak..."Waltz appeared to have engaged in intense coordination with Netanyahu about military options against Iran ahead of an Oval Office meeting between the Israeli leader and Trump...“It got back to Trump and the president wasn’t happy with it”.

LET ME HOST THE REUNION! 🇺🇸

What a graphic. What a story.

This video, posted by pro-Trump host Clay Travis and viewed over a million times, falsely claims to show an explosion at Iran's Fordo nuclear site after US bombings. In fact, the video shows a Ukrainain drone attack on a Russian ammunition depot in Toropets in September 2024.

Mariam Dagga, our freelancer who was killed today by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, had bylined this powerful piece on malnourished children in Gaza just last week apnews.com/article/palest…

In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we are going to see a lot of accounts pushing, effectively, for civil war in the US. This includes the rage-baiter in chief, Elon Musk, but also an army of Russian and Chinese bots and their faithful shills in the West. Do not

Conversation or violence. That’s the ultimate choice. You can’t have both. Anyone who celebrates violence has no fucking idea what it’s like to live in real political disorder and their ignorance is a luxury of having lived a privileged life in a stable society.

The president is laying a pretext for investigations and other actions against a currently undefined group of people and organizations in the wake of Kirk’s murder, in ways he has not for other murders:

AI-enhanced versions of the images the FBI released of the person of the interest in the Charlie Kirk shooting are being widely shared. Please bear in midnt that AI-enhancements are not reliable for this type of investigation. AI often distorts or simply imagines what the grainy

the number of AI generated books instantly published to amazon attempting to capitalize on the surge of interest in Kirk's killing is nuts modern life is search engine optimization rubbish

Be careful trying to decipher the true political beliefs of people wrapped in so many layers of irony they're not sure of their own true beliefs

This is his curse, he wrote the best book about why self-promoting social media is corrosive to institutions, lives by that example, and as a result is invisible to the people who need to hear it most (not me, of course, my posting is great)

Seeing lots of people get this "spreading hate" thing wrong. Many are saying it was the suspect, Tyler Robinson, who said this about Kirk. In fact, both 1) the police report and 2) Gov. Cox said it was a family member who said this, not Robinson.

NEWS - President Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York AG Letitia James, sources tell us. Reporting w/ Peter Charalambous & Alex Mallin

BREAKING: President Trump’s handpicked U.S. attorney in Virginia is planning to ask a grand jury in the coming days to indict former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress, despite prosecutors finding no probable cause, sources said. abcnews.link/2CVUf94