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Special Counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment including four felony counts against former U.S. President Donald Trump on August 1, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump gloats over Smith resignation

Alex Galbraith

The president-elect said the "stench" of the man charged with investigating him was "gone" from the DOJ

U.S. President Donald Trump inspects the troops during a full honors welcome ceremony on the parade grounds at the Pentagon, on July 25, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Under Trump, military faces a crisis

Gregory D. Foster

This won't be the first time politics has endangered our professional military. What can we learn from the past?

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

It's now worse than fake news

Dr. Sandra Matz

And our efforts to eradicate fake news could inadvertently exacerbate the problem

Ducks with bird flu also known as poultry flu are collected and put in a container on Pommernhof in Zarnewanz near Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on November 28, 2024 in Zarnewanz, Germany. (Frank Soellner/Getty Images)

Is climate change making bird flu worse?

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Our overheating planet has changed how birds migrate — giving H5N1 the boost it needed to spread rapidly

Woman fanning herself with money (Getty Images/Marco VDM)

To earn more in 2025, learn these skills

Jake Safane

Here are the top three skills employers say are the most important this year

Donald Trump speaks with Gavin Newsom, as they view damage from wildfires in Paradise, California on November 17, 2018. ( Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump and Newsom's fire feuds, explained

Griffin Eckstein

They exchanged blows as LA burned this week, but this wasn't the first feud between the pair

Satellites Flying Around Earth (Getty Images/yucelyilmaz)

Scientists propose space junk cleanup

Matthew Rozsa

Earth is surrounded by millions of pieces of space junk, which pose a constant threat to future space exploration

Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This? (Greg Endries/HBO)

Bill Maher, the coastin' elite

Melanie McFarland

This special is what giving up at the "concepts of a plan" stage looks like

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the Department of Labor on December 16, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden blasts Meta changes as "shameful"

Griffin Eckstein

The president slammed Zuckerberg's decision to axe fact-checking and expose "millions of people" to misinformation

A McDonald's to-go bag and an accompanying to-go cup stand in front of a McDonald's branch (Christoph Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Fast food bets big on value in 2025

Joy Saha

Subway and Wendy's also followed suit, releasing their own discount menus and menu items

Bill Maher visits The Megyn Kelly Show at the SiriusXM Studios on May 20, 2024 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Maher mocks Trump assassination attempt

Alex Galbraith

Maher laid into conspiracy theorists and the late would-be assassin in a bit from his new stand-up special

Mel Gibson attends a special screening of "Monster Summer" at the DGA Theater Complex in Los Angeles on September 24, 2024. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Gibson floats wildfire conspiracies

Alex Galbraith

The actor was recording an episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" as his California home burned

Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joe Biden’s most peculiar rejection

Austin Sarat

The decision of two death row inmates to turn down clemency sounds unthinkable, but they are not the first to do it

Woman up to her eyes in money (Getty Images/John M Lund Photography Inc)

My layoff led to something much better

Dana Miranda

I had to overcome an employee mindset to find financial success on my own

Alzheimers and dementia research, a brain scan in multi well tray used for research experiments in laboratory (Getty Images/Andrew Brookes)

Alzheimer’s may not be from amyloids

Joshua Cohen - Undark

Recent studies implicate the immune system and a herpes virus as potential contributors to development of disease

Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Jan. 6 investigator: What lies ahead

Dean Obeidallah

Tim Heaphy, lead investigator for Jan. 6 committee, on the threat of worse political violence under Trump 2.0

Fire personnel respond to homes destroyed while a helicopter drops water as the Palisades Fire grows in Pacific Palisades, California on January 7, 2025. (DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump spreading wildfire misinformation

Matthew Rozsa

Misinformation is spreading rapidly as experts say climate change is the likely accelerant for California's crisis

President Joe Biden speaks at a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House commemorating World AIDS Day on December 1, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Biden doesn't plan to pardon himself

Alex Galbraith

Biden seemed bewildered by a reporter's ask on Friday

President Joe Biden makes his way to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House en route to Texas on Monday, July 29, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Biden extends deportation protections

Alex Galbraith

The outgoing president extended the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the U.S.

Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks to the press as he leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse on December 11, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Giuliani continues to defame GA women

Alex Galbraith

The former New York mayor was found in contempt for continuing to defame two Georgia election workers

Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine Menendez (not seen) depart a Manhattan court after they were arraigned on federal bribery charges in New York, United States on September 27, 2023. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Prosecutors seek 15 years for Menendez

Griffin Eckstein

The former senator will be sentenced on Jan. 29

Jamie Lee Curtis attends the 36th Annual Palm Springs International Film Awards at Palm Springs Convention Center on January 03, 2025 in Palm Springs, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Society)

Stars open homes, wallets for fire aid

Nardos Haile

The destructive fires have been raging for over a week, incinerating more than 10,000 structures

Hoda Kotb is seen as Chris Stapleton performs on the NBC "Today" Show Citi Concert Series at Rockefeller Plaza on September 27, 2024 in New York City. (NDZ/Star Max/GC Images/Getty Images)

TV won't be the same without Hoda Kotb

Coleman Spilde

Kotb's 17-year run as a "Today" anchor may be over, but her empathetic spirit will be impossible to recreate

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan with his attorney Todd Blanche (L) at Manhattan Criminal Court on January 10, 2025 in New York City. (Curtis Means - Pool/Getty Images)

Trump: Charges were "witch hunt"

Alex Galbraith

The president-elect held that his conviction was a form of "lawfare" in a statement ahead of his sentencing

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