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Friday, December 12, 2025

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House votes to repeal Trump order ending union rights at federal agencies: The March order restricted union rights in more than two dozen federal agencies. The bill to repeal it is likely to stall in the Senate. - "Federal workers already have limited union rights compared with other employees. They can’t strike or bargain over pay. But they are allowed to join unions and bargain collectively — protections that are meant to ensure workers are treated fairly, while preventing activity that could be disruptive to public services or threaten national security."

George Washington’s living quarters back on display after restoration: Mount Vernon, the first U.S. president’s estate along the Potomac River in Virginia, is undergoing the most extensive renovation in its history.

The minority voters who powered Trump to a second term are drifting away: Extended conversations with Black, Latino and Asian American voters who cast ballots for Trump in 2024 showed mixed feelings about the president and their votes.

MyPillow founder and conspiracist Mike Lindell announces Minnesota gubernatorial bid: Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and a 2020 election denier, joins a crowded race in his unlikely Republican bid against two-term incumbent Gov. Tim Walz (D).

Oklahoma Black Lives Matter leader indicted on alleged misuse of donations: Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson deposited at least several million dollars into personal accounts instead of the organization’s accounts, authorities said.

Trump asserts he has pardoned county clerk convicted in Colorado case: The impact of Trump’s claim is unclear since Tina Peters was convicted in state, not federal, court.

House Democrats release photos of Epstein with Trump, other public figures: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released 19 images, many of them previously published, showing the disgraced financier with Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Steve Bannon and others.

The Silent Treatment Is Quietly Ruining Your Relationships: Many of us have done it, but that doesn’t make it right, experts say.

Trump wants Bagram back. Satellite images show how the Taliban are using it.

Secret meetings between FBI and Ukraine negotiator spark concern: FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, met with Kyiv’s top peace negotiator amid a U.S. pressure campaign to end the war.

Russia could attack Nato within five years, says alliance chief in stark new warning

Let’s take a closer look at MIT, one target of Trump’s blunderbuss: It’s alarming to see such a complex, important institution subject to the whims of today’s politics. - "The 8 percent tax on MIT’s endowment will cost the university $240 million annually that will not be available to make up for reductions in government research grants. Universities’ endowments fuel upward mobility and combat the stagnation of elites. Taxing endowments mocks conservatism by enfeebling private sector alternatives to government’s domination of social resources."

The deeply personal reasons why many Indiana Senate Republicans said no to Trump

Thursday, November 30, 2023

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Opinion How to end plastic pollution on Earth for good

Businessman accused of bribing Sen. Menendez had deep ties to Egypt: Wael Hana’s extensive ties to the Egyptian government included arranging the shipment of military equipment from the U.S., associates say

Trump tries to embrace Black Lives Matter, a group he previously said ‘hates our country’

Hunter Biden offers to testify publicly before House panel: Escalation of battle with House GOP comes in response to a subpoena for a closed-door session

CIA director pushes big hostage deal in secret meeting with Mossad chief: The meeting in Qatar comes as William Burns takes on a central role navigating the crisis for President Biden

U.S. prosecutors allege assassination plot of Sikh separatist directed by Indian government employee

Elon Musk boosts Pizzagate conspiracy theory that led to D.C. gunfire: The far-right theory motivated a gunman to fire multiple rounds inside the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Northwest Washington in 2016. Musk boosted the theory to his 164 million followers anyway.

A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon packages. Chaos ensued.

How the suburbs could become 15-minute cities

Thursday, March 17, 2022

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Sleep experts say Senate has it wrong: Standard time, not daylight saving, should be permanent

What became of Trayvon Martin’s hoodie?: Tracing the 10-year journey of the slain teen’s hoodie on its way to becoming a civil rights icon

Monday, May 10, 2021

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Child care has bipartisan support. But the culture war could wreck that.

The Jean War between millennials and Gen Z cannot be won

An off-duty officer ‘terrorized’ a family displaying a BLM flag. Police drove him home without arrest.

German priests defy Pope Francis with blessings of same-sex unions

The making of a myth: Russell J. Ramsland Jr. sold everything from Tex-Mex food to light-therapy technology. Then he sold the story that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. - "The campaign foundered amid revelations she had previously appeared on Infowars, the right-wing website operated by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and on another occasion had said she believed data showed that military-grade explosives were planted inside the twin towers on 9/11. That comment prompted the Austin American-Statesman to retract its endorsement of her. (Pressley told The Post she had 'no opinion' on whether planes brought down the World Trade Center.)

"The race was not close: Her opponent, a community organizer, defeated her by a margin of almost 30 points.

"Pressley could not believe it.

"'I knew in my heart that I had won,' she recently told a gathering of law enforcement officers outside Houston, one of hundreds of speeches she has given about the case, 'and I became convinced there was fraud.'"

Sunday, January 31, 2021

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Ukraine stayed quiet during Trump-era pressures. Now it’s sharing some Giuliani tales.

Ten Senate Republicans propose compromise covid relief package, request meeting with Biden: Move by GOP senators led by Susan Collins comes as Democrats prepare to go forward quickly with Biden package without Republican support

Opinion: Alexei Navalny may be in jail, but he’s helping to give birth to a new Russia

Woman charged in Capitol riot said she wanted to shoot Pelosi ‘in the friggin’ brain,' FBI says

‘Be ready to fight’: FBI probe of U.S. Capitol riot finds evidence detailing coordination of an assault - "'Historically, within the right-wing extremist movements, leadership has produced rhetoric to spin up their members, increase radicalization and recruitment, and then stand back and let small cells or individual lone offenders follow through on that rhetoric with violent action,' said Thomas O’Connor, a former FBI agent who spent decades investigating domestic terrorists. 'Domestic terrorism actually developed the leaderless resistance concept, taking the potential blame away from the leadership and putting it down into small groups or individuals, and I think that is what you’re starting to see here.'"

How Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, promoter of QAnon’s baseless theories, rose with support from key Republicans

Police chief, officer under fire after bodycam video surfaces with racial slurs, explicit language: Video surfaced of comments both are seen making at a Black Lives Matter protest.

Saturday, November 14, 2020

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Forty Fort man applied for a ballot for his deceased mother, detectives allege

Charges filed in father-son voter fraud case in Chester County

Trump Made the Economy His Message. Biden Won It

Black voters delivered Democrats the presidency. Now they are caught in the middle of its internal battle.

Alito homes in on gay marriage, gun rights, religious liberty in stern speech to conservatives

Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. What does this mean for the nation’s political-economic divide? - "To start with, the 2020’s sharpened economic divide forecasts gridlock in Congress and between the White House and Senate on the most important issues of economic policy. The problem—as we have witnessed over the past decade and are likely to continue seeing—is not only that Democrats and Republicans disagree on issues of culture, identity, and power, but that they represent radically different swaths of the economy. Democrats represent voters who overwhelmingly reside in the nation’s diverse economic centers, and thus tend to prioritize housing affordability, an improved social safety net, transportation infrastructure, and racial justice. Jobs in blue America also disproportionately rely on national R&D investment, technology leadership, and services exports.

By contrast, Republicans represent an economic base situated in the nation’s struggling small towns and rural areas. Prosperity there remains out of reach for many, and the party sees no reason to consider the priorities and needs of the nation’s metropolitan centers. That is not a scenario for economic consensus or achievement.

At the same time, the results from last week’s election likely underscore fundamental problems of economic alienation and estrangement. Specifically, Trump’s anti-establishment appeal suggests that a sizable portion of the country continues to feel little connection to the nation’s core economic enterprises, and chose to channel that animosity into a candidate who promised not to build up all parts of the country, but rather to vilify groups who didn’t resemble his base.

If this pattern continues—with one party aiming to confront the challenges at top of mind for a majority of Americans, and the other continuing to stoke the hostility and indignation held by a significant minority—it will be a recipe not only for more gridlock and ineffective governance, but also for economic harm to nearly all people and places. In light of the desperate need for a broad, historic recovery from the economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic, a continuation of the patterns we’ve seen play out over the past decade would be a particularly unsustainable situation for Americans in communities of all sizes."