3+ hour, 55+ min ago  (494+ words) A recent report found CFTC staff were put on leave after questioning Trump-linked betting markets. A Sunday report in The New York Times revealed how the Trump administration is using a key government agency to shut down any efforts to…...

6+ hour, 4+ min ago  (933+ words) Jewish Voice for Peace says a city commissioner personally spent $4, 000 on billboard trucks targeting local activists. Both Nevel and Alan Levine, the other individual targeted, are seasoned, long-term organizers who have been doing anti-Zionist work for decades. Nevel is a…...

6+ hour, 45+ min ago  (534+ words) Disability rights advocates say everything from filing for unemployment to voting in the midterms just got much harder. "It is outrageous that the Justice Department thinks that they can delay this regulation for one more year," Chris Danielsen, a spokesperson…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (900+ words) The proposed "hyperscale" campus would strain water, energy, and local ecology. Plans for a celebrity-backed "hyperscale" data center in rural Utah, so massive that it would consume more than double the state's current electricity use, have generated an intense public…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (522+ words) The policy ends a decades-old process which allows immigrants to apply from within the US. Critics are slamming the Trump administration for implementing a new rule that foreigners who apply for green cards must do so from abroad. U. S. Citizenship and…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (420+ words) The U. S. is using more of its resources to defend Israel than Israel is itself, according to U. S. officials who spoke to The Washington Post on Thursday. The officials disclosed that the U. S. military has depleted much of its missile-defense inventory after using…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (445+ words) Backlash to Flock cameras and AI systems is exploding after scandals, including police using the tech to stalk women. In communities large and small, red and blue, all across the United States, residents are filling local council meetings in opposition…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (416+ words) Rubio's comments came amidst over three weeks of protest in Bolivia by Indigenous groups, peasants and workers. In the midst of a wave of mass protests in Bolivia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on X that the United States…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (642+ words) There have been nearly 400 US military casualties in Operation Epic Fury so far. Less than a week before Memorial Day weekend " a federal holiday that aims to recognize members of the U. S. military who have died in combat zones " President Donald…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (209+ words) The PESP report found that private equity companies bought up almost 1. 7 million apartment units " some 57 percent " since 2018, and 1. 3 million of them since just 2021. PESP's report found that private equity's expanded presence in the housing market "has exacerbated housing affordability issues,…...