4+ hour, 44+ min ago   (315+ words) The American Federation for Children (AFC) is promoting the reality that hundreds of millions of Americans are eligible for tax credits for donations to scholarship funds. The AFC published a report this month that shows an estimated 121.5 million taxpayers can…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (215+ words) Alexandra Petri: “If only the GOP midterm convention succeeds in its aim of electing Donald Trump president, things will get a lot better in this country. Isn’t he already president? Hush! At the Unprecedented (But Very President-ed) Republican Midterm Convention,…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (442+ words) The specimens were collected between 1995 and 2004 during a massive biodiversity survey in Australia. That expedition gathered more than 50,000 specimens, which then sat in museum drawers for decades, waiting for someone to sort through them. I mean she said it herself,…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (54+ words) A federal judge ruled the Trump administration seized control of FEMA and imposed a staffing cut "pulled from thin air."The order was filed Friday by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who sits in San Francisco in the Northern District of…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (103+ words) “A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow ‘integrity and honesty’ upon the event and to right wrongs ‘hammered down on the conservative movement,…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (177+ words) What did we learn today, my friends? Some things! We learned many things in the morning news roundup, as artisanally curated by moi! Evan had some things to say about these dusty old bigot losers, the very same ones who…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (610+ words) Flock Surveillance isn’t a new phenomenon, but is instead the product of the subordination of the tech industry to the Far Right and years of cooperation between the carceral state and surveillance capital. In the age of artificial intelligence, datacenters,…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (85+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Keeping track of children and lobster boats, in readers’ eyes. Tobias Russell’s…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (353+ words) On September 1, the House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education held a hearing titled “Supporting Working Families: State-Led Child Care Solutions.” The hearing examined how states are addressing the labor and child care crisis and…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (872+ words) The Justice Department accused Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of posing a "mortal threat" to attorney-client privilege as its own lawyers risk criminal contempt charges. The accusation came in a reply brief the department filed Friday with the full U.S. Court…...