Heckling, ejections and silence: Democrats navigate their State of the Union response on live TV
Top Democrats pushed for a strategy of “silent defiance.” Most followed suit. The ones who didn’t largely defined the Democratic response — at least for Republicans.
The dark tension at the heart of Trump’s State of the Union
The president wants us to believe that this is “America’s golden age,” while only he can protect us from dangers lurking around every corner.
Trump’s locker-room ‘joke’ was bad. The men’s hockey team made it worse.
On the last day of the Olympics, many fans were able to put aside their feelings about personal politics and just celebrate this win as Americans. And then thanks to Trump’s locker-room “joke,” we were snapped right back to reality.
Pete Hegseth presses AI company to drop significant safety guardrails
The defense secretary summoned Anthropic’s CEO to force compliance, Meta makes a play for the midterms and hackers face fallout over their Epstein ties in this week’s Tech Drop.
Trump allies online push misinfo about Gavin Newsom to deflect Black anger
The president’s supporters have pushed false claims that the California governor belittled Black people’s intelligence with comments he made in Atlanta. The real story is one of MAGA desperation.
As Trump’s election conspiracy theories take an ugly turn, the search for evidence flails
The key detail the administration’s search for voter fraud shares with its search for weaponization: Looking for mirages inevitably fails.
Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator
Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.
Missing Epstein files include interviews with alleged Trump accuser
A woman who came forward in July 2019 to accuse Jeffrey Epstein of assaulting and raping her several times in the 1980s, beginning when she was just 13, is also a Trump accuser featured in the Epstein files.
Supreme Court splits 5-4 to block lawsuits against postal refusals to deliver mail
Justice Thomas authored the ruling, which was joined by all the other GOP appointees except Justice Gorsuch, who joined Justice Sotomayor’s dissent.
