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Matt Taibbi testifies during the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled "The Censorship-Industrial Complex" on Feb. 12, 2025 in Rayburn building.

Matt Taibbi filed a Trumpian, free speech-chilling lawsuit against me. A judge just threw it out

Eoin Higgins

An oil refinery looms in the background. In the foreground, a person walks their dog across a street with parked cars on either side.

Hormuz shutdown puts California on the brink of an oil crisis

Laura Haefeli

Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith testifies before the House Judiciary Committee.

Silent no more, Jack Smith calls out Trump’s ‘corrupted’ Justice Department

Steve Benen

Kash Patel attends the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
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Kash Patel ordered polygraphs of more than two dozen members of his team, sources say

Carol Leonnig & Ken Dilanian

Kash Patel didn’t need a new alcohol-related controversy. He has one now anyway

Steve Benen

The contradiction at the heart of the purported FBI probe into leaks about Kash Patel

Steve Benen

the exterior of the Supreme Court building in Washington DC and John Roberts

The Supreme Court’s mask is slipping — and Roberts is in damage control mode

Duncan Levin

President Donald Trump displays a rendering of his proposed $250 million White House ballroom in the Oval Office of the White House.

The GOP message behind funding Trump’s ballroom: ‘Watch us eat cake’

Matthew Bartlett

A "Black Voters Matter" sign during a special legislative session at the Tennessee State Capitol.

Republicans can’t conceal the moral ugliness of what they’ve done in Tennessee

Earle J. Fisher

Donald Trump, seen close up, looking down.

Federal court rules against new global tariffs Trump imposed after loss at the Supreme Court

The Associated Press

There is a exhibit sign showing the Trump-Epstein sculpture at the entrance of the room.

The Epstein documents are no longer front-page news. Can an art installation change that?

Lisa Rubin

The U.S. and Puerto Rican flags behind barbed wire.

Trump avoids looking for election fraud in the places he might legitimately find it

Julio Ricardo Varela

A photo illustration of two people looking at each other, surrounded by snippets of legal text.

The Baldoni-Lively feud is one of the biggest celebrity miscalculations of this century

Rachel Simon

Donald Trump holds up a drawing of a ballroom.

Iran reviewing U.S. proposal as Trump pressures Tehran for agreement on deal to end war

The Associated Press

A man wearing black waves black and red flag on the right side of the frame.

New Trump counterterrorism strategy targets antifa and Iran

David Rohde

Fans watch as Team Captain Dustin Johnson of 4 Aces GC plays his shot from the first tee during day one of the LIV Golf Invitational in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia is axing LIV Golf despite Trump’s cheerleading — but I’m not celebrating

Kevin B. Blackistone

Harmeet Dhillon holds a microphone as she looks on at the stage.

Trump’s DOJ targets yet another Democrat demonized by conservatives

Ja'han Jones

Donald Trump, left, points ahead of him. Tom Emmer, center, and Mike Johnson, right, clap behind him.

GOP leader touts Trump as ‘an icon for the ages’ as party sycophancy reaches new depths

Steve Benen

John Kennedy.

The same Republicans who slammed Biden’s gas prices are preaching patience for Trump

Jack Fitzpatrick

A close up of a woman holding a phone which is video calling with a man in a yellow shirt and blue flannel jacket.

Deported Dreamer released from Texas detention after ICE brought him back to U.S.

Laura Barrón-López

A water storage tanker on the horizon at sunset, taken with a film camera.

Trump’s doomed Strait of Hormuz promise ended in a revealing reversal

Daniel R. DePetris

Changpeng Zhao; Sen. Peter Welch.

Congressional Democrats launch investigation into alleged ‘pay to play’ pardon scheme

Ja'han Jones

Todd Blanche speaks at a podium while Kash Patel stands behind him.

Southern Poverty Law Center pleads not guilty in ‘unprecedented’ fraud case

Jordan Rubin

Chief Justice John Roberts speaks during lecture to the Georgetown Law School graduating class of 2025.

Why John Roberts’ defense of the Supreme Court was so wildly unpersuasive

Steve Benen

Andy Beshear smiles.

Andy Beshear won twice in Trump country. Now he wants to show Democrats how to do it everywhere

Ali Vitali

‘But do you trust them?’: Hayes questions timing of FBI raid in Virginia

Officials race to contain Hantavirus outbreak

Epstein’s purported suicide note released

Psaki reviews shocking litany of political targeting by Trump’s DOJ

CNN founder Ted Turner dies at 87

GOP-led states turbocharge redistricting efforts after SCOTUS ruling

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  1. Ted Turner sits at his desk in 1977.

    Ted Turner created CNN — but this was his biggest innovation

    Peter Funt

  2. President Donald Trump stops to speak to reporters before boarding Marine One.

    Trump got his revenge in Indiana. It could come with a cost

    Paul Waldman

  3. Donald Trump, with only his eyes and nose visible. The photo is taken with a slow shutter speed, so he is blurred.

    New lawsuit against The New York Times is Trump’s latest initiative to protect white men at all costs

    Charles F. Coleman Jr.

  4. The school sign is seen on a black metal arch. 

    Trump administration looks to walk back trans rights in one of America’s most queer-friendly towns

    Katelyn Burns

  5. A black and white photo of a nurse tending to a patient, only their arm visible in the hospital bed.

    Americans are still fixated on healthcare costs — here’s a solution Democrats could enact now

    Neera Tanden & Topher Spiro

  6. RFK Jr. looks on as half of his face is visible at the bottom of the frame.

    RFK Jr. is on a crusade against the medication that helped me survive

    Miranda Yaver

  7. A man walks past a banner depicting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's late supreme leader in Tahrir Square on March 9, 2026.

    A new report exposes how Trump is failing at his main goal in Iran

    Zeeshan Aleem

  8. Donald Trump is seen at sunset waving as he walks away.

    The one weird trick to lower gas prices the Trump administration hates

    Hayes Brown

  9. Commercial vessels are seen off the coast of Dubai.

    The real reasons Trump launched a ‘humanitarian’ operation in the Strait of Hormuz 

    Zeeshan Aleem

  10. A Spirit Airlines plane in front of multiple American Airlines, JetBlue and Southwest airplanes.

    Spirit Airlines’ demise will be felt by Americans who never flew it

    William J. McGee

  11. Assistants help fix an attire at Met Gala.

    How Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos helped turn the Met Gala into a caricature of itself

    Hannah Holland

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