FBI fires agents who scrutinized Patel in Trump documents case
The terminations are the latest in an ongoing purge of bureau employees who participated in investigations of Donald Trump.
Republicans and Democrats are growing further apart on Homeland Security funding
Negotiations to end the DHS shutdown have moved slowly. Democrats have been waiting for a Republican counteroffer for more than a week. And Trump’s State of the Union didn’t help.
MAGA world’s violent pregnancy-related rhetoric is on full display
In Vermont and Tennessee, two controversies are highlighting some of the violence at the heart of right-wing attacks on reproductive freedom.
Trump administration pauses Medicaid funding to Minnesota
The news comes a day after President Trump tasked Vice President Vance with waging a “war on fraud.” Dr. Mehmet Oz said there’s more to come.
The biggest problem with Trump’s affordability victory lap
The president’s agenda harms typical families’ incomes far more than it reduces their prices, writes economist Josh Bivens.
Democrats raise alarm about betting on death in online prediction markets
Senate Democrats wrote to the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to shine light on the grim realm of online betting in which participants wager on potentially deadly scenarios.
Judge blocks feds from searching Washington Post reporter’s devices
A federal judge slammed the Justice Department for seizing a reporter’s electronic devices, which the Post said contain troves of sensitive source information.
Trump’s surgeon general nominee deflects vaccine questions at Senate hearing
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she wants more answers from Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, about her stance on vaccines.
Florida’s new sociology syllabus goes against every tenet of sociology
Florida has developed a new introductory textbook and syllabus for sociology that exclude many of the bedrock areas of concern within the field, including gender and sexuality, social stratification and systemic racism.
