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In honor of Father’s Day, we asked readers to submit their most cherished dad texts. We received corny jokes, goofy photos and expressions of unconditional love. Here are some of our favorites. nyti.ms/43YrTP0

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman was killed Saturday in a politically motivated assassination along with her husband, Mark, in their home. Minnesota lawmaker Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were also shot and wounded at their home nearby.

submitted 4 days ago • 78 comments

It's more than that. Everything is red meat for MAGA. Lining up Mexican flags against a line of LAPD is basically an image that says to the unengaged American - which is MOST of them - "Donald Trump is right. This is a stand against a foreign invading mob."

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

ICE detained a US marshal because he "fit the general description of a subject." Basically, they racially profiled their own kind.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

Pete Hegseth is threatening to send active-duty Marines into California. Pure madness. Pure authoritarianism.

submitted 10 days ago • 148 comments

A large explosion that collapsed a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, on Saturday killed at least one person and injured four in what the FBI is calling an intentional act of terrorism.

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

The U.S. now spends more on interest payments on the national debt than on national defense. This is not sustainable.

submitted 31 days ago • 200 comments

An effort to kill off lawsuits against oil giants is gaining steam - my latest in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/c...

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

Pope Leo XIV voted in 2024 U.S. general election — here's which primaries he's voted in.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

New York, Dallas, Seattle and 25 other major U.S. cities are sinking, threatening the structural integrity of buildings, roads, dams and other forms of infrastructure, new research found. cbsn.ws/4kbTEu2

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

NOAA announced Thursday that it is decommissioning several databases, including its widely reported annual compilation of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Pete Hegseth’s culture war hits West Point. Books banned, syllabuses scrubbed, two professors resign in protest, the librarian quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

submitted 40 days ago • 70 comments

Despite the program saving Americans $350 per household for every $1 invested into the program, this moronic admin will eliminate some praised by both consumers and manufacturers alike, raising energy bills for all households across the country. It’s a war on the poor.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Three weeks ago, a whistleblower report was published detailing egregious security breaches at the NLRB, detailing attempted logins from Russian IP addresses, correct username and passwords, within 15 minutes of the accounts being created by DOGE. @democrats.senate.gov need to investigate. Now.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

100 days ago Trump declared “our golden age has just begun.” His inaugural speech began with the line “From this day forward, our country will flourish.” This morning’s economic news is so bad that Trump is now trying to distance himself from the economy. His tariffs did this.

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

CSIS's Daniel Byman writes that "by attacking iconic U.S. companies, foreign governments can further divide Americans and undermine the credibility of the U.S. government." More on how foreign governments are attempting to polarize politics:

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Make no mistake, Trump’s disastrous tariffs remain in place and are raising prices for consumers. And Trump’s escalating trade war with China risks crashing the global economy.

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

Donald Trump erects a protectionist barrier around America https://www.ft.com/content/311cb6fd-b6bb-42cf-a19f-d9bf2e89d9a6

submitted 76 days ago • 24 comments

U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariffs are a major blow to the world economy and will hurt vulnerable people the most, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says. Follow AP live updates.

submitted 76 days ago • 28 comments

Deutsche Bank’s asset manager DWS has been fined €25mn by German prosecutors over a greenwashing scandal. Prosecutors have said that DWS used ‘aggressive’ advertising to mislead investors about its green credentials between 2020 and 2023. www.ft.com/content/5104...

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reoriented the U.S. military to prioritize deterring China’s seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense by “assuming risk” in Europe and other parts of the world.

submitted 81 days ago • 93 comments

Warnings of language as a weapon of manipulation, obfuscation and oppression run through George Orwell’s work. It is a reason you could be excused for hearing real-life echoes of scenes from “1984” emanating from Washington, Matthew Purdy writes.

submitted 80 days ago • 83 comments

The Trump administration summarily fired the staff of the U.S. Institute of Peace late Friday night, less than two weeks after forcibly removing the congressionally funded organization’s president and installing in his place an agent of tech Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.

submitted 80 days ago • 79 comments

In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser in the wake of the Signal leak. But behind the scenes, he has been casting around for advice. Read an inside account of Trump’s deliberations over what to do about Michael Waltz.

submitted 80 days ago • 147 comments

Crowds protesting billionaire Elon Musk’s purge of the U.S. government under President Donald Trump began amassing outside Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. and in some cities in Europe on Saturday. apnews.com/article/elon...

submitted 80 days ago • 57 comments

Between the arrogant tech twerps who think “we’ve got this,” and the malicious characters behind them who want the system to break, so they can fix it through privatizing with tech bros and private equity, there’s a LOT to worry about here.

submitted 80 days ago • 185 comments

NEW: Trump told NBC News he ‘couldn’t care less’ if automakers raise car prices due to his tariffs. Well, at least he doesn’t pretend to care anymore.

submitted 80 days ago • 88 comments

A few GOP lawmakers said they would look into the breach, but Republicans largely refrained from criticizing the Trump administration after top national security officials had used a messaging app to chat about military operations.

submitted 84 days ago • 84 comments

The National Security Agency sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning them of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal, according to internal NSA documents obtained by CBS News. https://cbsn.ws/3FTvCos

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

A person with a confirmed measles infection may have exposed Amtrak passengers on a train to Washington, D.C., earlier this month, officials at the D.C. Department of Health said. https://cbsn.ws/43TxmIn

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

West Virginia became the first state to ban nearly all artificial food dyes. Twenty others are considering similar laws.

submitted 85 days ago • 37 comments

"If you’re the head of a huge law firm, capitulation isn’t just a regrettable necessity, it’s your duty. You’re acting in the best interests of your clients. It would be wrong and irresponsible to act otherwise" - things people tell themselves www.thebulwark.com/p/stop-makin...

submitted 85 days ago • 12 comments

How Trump is “effectively institutionalizing disinformation,” pushing a “new era of post-truth politics” that enables his administration to use fictions to promote its agenda. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...

submitted 85 days ago • 24 comments

An attack on law firms and lawyers is an attack on the rule of law. No two ways about it.

submitted 85 days ago • 7 comments

The arrest of Erdoğan’s most serious opposition challenger has spooked markets and triggered Turkey’s largest protests in more than a decade amid dark forebodings about the country’s political future. www.ft.com/content/6572...

submitted 86 days ago • 11 comments

The lawsuit includes a photo of a notebook found in John Barnett's truck when he died by suicide, bearing the message, "I pray Boeing Pays!!!" In response to the new lawsuit, Boeing said in a statement, "We are saddened by John Barnett's death and extend our condolences to his family."

submitted 88 days ago • 21 comments

Weeks before President Donald Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his agenda, his supporters around the nation seeded the ground to turn public opinion against the institution that has been the leading check on his administration.

submitted 89 days ago • 32 comments

The plan includes a pitch to the Trump administration for a managed transfer over the next five to 10 years www.ft.com/content/939b...

submitted 89 days ago • 24 comments