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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks as US Vice President JD Vance visits the East Palestine Fire Department in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3, 2025. (REBECCA DROKE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

EPA: Chemtrail questions are legitimate

Alex Galbraith

The agency debunked the airborne conspiracy theory while saying that such concerns are "reasonable"

Olga Urbina and her 9=month-old son Ares Webster participate in a protest outside the Supreme Court over President Donald Trump's move to end birthright citizenship as the court hears arguments over the order in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2025. (DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)

Birthright citizenship order is paused

Russell Payne

A federal judge granted class action status to plaintiffs who accuse Trump of violating the U.S. Constitution

Lena Dunham and Megan Stalter (Photo illustration by Salon/Jonathan Brady/PA Images via Getty Images)

Lena Dunham's sharply crafted chaos

Melanie McFarland

With "Too Much" and its star Meg Stalter, the "Girls" creator lands a win for women who excel at standing out

Christopher Reeve as Superman, 1978 (Keystone/Getty Images)

Reeve's Superman can never be defeated

Coleman Spilde

Reeve's performance defined the modern superhero, and filmmakers have been trying to catch up ever since

Search and rescue personnel continue to look for missing people along the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's America is a cold, hard place

Brian Karem

The president would rather intimidate and detain immigrants than help flood victims

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attends an event on June 20, 2025 in Detroit, Mich. (Emily Elconin/Getty Images)

FEMA's acting director is MIA

Sophia Tesfaye

After the deadly Texas floods, few seem to be questioning Kristi Noem’s apparent takeover of the agency

US Supreme Court Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. (Photo illustration by Salon/Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

SCOTUS backs "executive lawlessness"

Tatyana Tandanpolie

Legal experts say the Supreme Court has effectively endorsed a two-tier system of justice known as the "dual state"

A Texas State Flag flys in a yard filled with debris on July 6, 2025 in Hunt, Texas. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Texas flash flood is a preview

Abrahm Lustgarten - ProPublica

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly

President Donald Trump appears at a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump lauds Liberian president's English

Alex Galbraith

The West African country got its start as an American colonial project, and its official language is English

A view of a gate to Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University on July 08, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

McMahon attacks Harvard's accreditation

Cheyenne McNeill

The Trump administration continued its attacks on the nation's oldest university on Wednesday

US President President Donald Trump visits a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

Alligator Alcatraz conditions "horrible"

Cheyenne McNeill

Detainees describe dangerous conditions at the detention center, but Florida officials calls those claims “untrue”

Floridians protest the construction of an immigration detention center in the Everglades, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" (GIORGIO VIERA / AFP via Getty Images)

SCOTUS keeps harsh Florida law on ice

Alex Galbraith

The court refused to lift an injunction against a Florida law that made migrants crossing the state line a felony

Jake Tapper (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Tapper: DOJ Epstein memo is "for fools"

Alex Galbraith

The CNN host said the public is "being played for fools" by the Pam Bondi-led DOJ

Meringue pie (Carlina Teteris / Getty Images )

The pie I wait all year for

Bibi Hutchings

Made with tree-ripened peaches and topped with billowy meringue, this pie is pure summer on a plate

Linda Yaccarino, CEO, X/Twitter speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2023 Code Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel on September 27, 2023 in Dana Point, California. (Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media)

X CEO quits after "MechaHitler" scandal

Cheyenne McNeill

Linda Yaccarino did not mention the antisemitic, pro-Nazi posts made by X's AI chatbot, Grok

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. delivers a speech outlining his foreign policy vision at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

RFK Jr.’s "real food" hypocrisy

Ashlie D. Stevens

A pillar of MAHA is whole foods — but only if you can afford it

Federal immigration agents near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2025. (Carlin Steihl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

$178 billion to create a police state

Heather Digby Parton

A massive funding increase for ICE means more detention camps and more masked agents in the streets

Rogan O'Handley, aka DC Draino, with a binder reading "The Epstein Files: Phase 1," leaving the White House on Feb. 27, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Why MAGA clings to the "Epstein files"

Amanda Marcotte

If Jeffrey Epstein really had a client list, Trump would definitely be on it. MAGA influencers don't much care

Federal immigration agents near MacArthur Park in the Westlake area on July 7, 2025. (Carlin Steihl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Performative fascism in Los Angeles

Charles R. Davis

The raid on MacArthur Park did not lead to any arrests, but that wasn't the point

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu at dinner in the Blue Room of the White House, July 7, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Israeli insiders on the Iran war

Chauncey DeVega

Journalists with close ties to Netanyahu unpack Israel's decades-long campaign against an Iranian bomb

James Gunn at the "Superman" World Premiere. (Photo by River Callaway/Getty Images)

Gunn responds to "Superman" backlash

Alex Galbraith

The director had no time for conservatives who took issue with the idea that Superman is an immigrant

Entrance to Pullman Regional Hospital in Pullman Washington. (Photo by Don and Melinda Crawford/ Getty Images)

Medicaid cuts will hurt rural hospitals

Lauren S. Hughes, Kevin J. Bennett - The Conversation

Health policy experts predict that cuts to Medicaid will push more rural hospitals to close

The US Supreme Court is seen in Washington DC on May 25, 2023. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

SCOTUS gives Trump layoffs OK

Alex Galbraith

The Supreme Court order lifted a stay stopping Trump's scheme for massive reductions in force at federal agencies

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at a news conference to unveil the Take It Down Act to protect victims against non-consensual intimate image abuse, on Capitol Hill on June 18, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Cruz pushed NOAA cuts before floods

Cheyenne McNeill

The senator was on vacation in Greece when fatal flooding hit Central Texas.

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