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Linda McMahon, former Administrator of Small Business Administration, speaks during the final night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

DOE to layoff half of workforce

Alex Galbraith

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said her end goal is to completely shutter the department

Sarah McBride, Democrat running for Delaware's Congressional seat, is seen on the second night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Hearing comes to halt over McBride diss

Alex Galbraith

Rep. Bill Keating refused to allow a meeting to proceed until the chair addressed Rep. Sarah McBride correctly

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks at a town hall with Republican candidate U.S. Senate Dave McCormick at the Roxain Theater on October 20, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

Trump cuts Tesla ad at White House

Alex Galbraith

Trump made good on a promise to buy a Tesla from DOGE head Elon Musk, showing off his Model S at the White House

Mel Gibson (Getty/Andreas Rentz)

Gibson case may have led to DOJ firing

Alex Galbraith

Elizabeth Oyer says her firing came after she opposed restoring actor and Trump supporter Mel Gibson's gun rights

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A Southwest Airlines plane lands at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, United States on June 8, 2023. (Tayfun CoSkun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Checking bags on Southwest will cost you

Quinn Sental

The airline is ditching its “bags fly free" policy despite having built decades of brand identity and loyalty

L-R: Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna, Liv Hewson as Teen Van and Alexa Barajas as Teen Mari in "Yellowjackets." (Kailey Schwerman/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME)

"Yellowjackets" values fighting to exist

Racquel Marie

By embracing resilience, the show's deeply human characters remind us of the right to exist without justification

Stock Market Arrow Graph Going Down (Getty Images)

Stocks slump as trade war grows

Quinn Sental

The Dow fell more than 400 points on Tuesday as Trump announced he would increase tariffs on Canada

Thousands are backed up and waiting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 60th anniversary of events that occurred on the bridge iin Selma, Alabama in 1965. These marchers came to Selma today, Sunday, March 09, 2025. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Black voters' power hangs in the balance

Tatyana Tandanpolie

Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms

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The US and Canadian flags are pictured at Peace Arch Historical State Park in Blaine, Washington, on March 5, 2025.) (Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump escalates economic war on Canada

Charles R. Davis

In a post on Truth Social, Trump stressed that his goal is to make Canada a "cherished" part of the United States

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

There is only one end to MAGA dominance

Chauncey DeVega

Political scientist M. Steven Fish explains that otherwise Trump is "going to seem like a boss"

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TSA hit with “PATCO on steroids”

Robert Hennelly

“This is sending a message to the rest of corporate America that contracts don’t matter”

Elon Musk and Robert Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why RFK is letting Musk run wild in HHS

Amanda Marcotte

Some Cabinet officials loathe Musk, but Kennedy grabs his chance to destroy science-based medicine

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You don't want to throw a measles party

Carlyn Zwarenstein

As the anti-vaccine movement brings measles surging back, we must also recall why we need a vaccine for it

100 dollar banknote with medical mask (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

Money saved our marriage from COVID

Bob Brody

It was as if talking about money, and earning it, would act as a vaccine that endowed our family with immunity

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk participates in a town hall-style meeting to promote early and absentee voting at Ridley High School on October 17, 2024 in Folsom, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Musk having trouble running DOGE, Tesla

Alex Galbraith

The Tesla and SpaceX head told Fox Business' Larry Kudlow that trying to run his companies and DOGE has been taxing

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 06, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump promises more protester arrests

Alex Galbraith

Trump celebrated the arrest of Mahmoud Kalil, a former student at Columbia University, in a post to Truth Social

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Same-sex marriage supporter Vin Testa, of Washington, DC, waves an LGBTQIA pride flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building as he takes pictures with his friend Donte Gonzalez to celebrate the anniversary of the United States v. Windsor and the Obergefell v. Hodges decisions on June 26, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

SCOTUS weighs "gay conversion" therapy

Tatyana Tandanpolie

More than 20 states have banned "conversion therapy," which critics liken to torture

Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb and Michelle Monaghan in "The White Lotus" (Fabio Lovino/HBO)

These "White Lotus" friends are a trip

Melanie McFarland

Every season of Mike White's show features a terrible friend, but these three women might top them all

Roswell, Atlanta, Georgia, Publix Grocery Store, woman shopping. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Experts: SNAP cuts could deepen hunger

Ashlie D. Stevens

SNAP cuts could leave families unable to afford basic meals, worsening food insecurity and local economies

Students protest against the war in Gaza on the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel at Columbia University in New York, New York, on Monday, October 7, 2024. (Victor J. Blue for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump admin. arrests Palestine activist

Russell Payne

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has vowed to revoke visas and green cards over political speech

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Donald Trump;  Justin Trudeau (AFP/Getty Images/Mandel Ngan)

Trudeau's last laugh at Trump's expense

Heather Digby Parton

"We can give ourselves far far more than Donald Trump can ever take away"

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

"Spectocracy": The New MAGA Order

Chauncey DeVega

During his address to Congress, Trump bragged and threatened that his administration “is just getting started”

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth meets with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) at the U.S. Capitol on December 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Paranoid Hegseth bans the Enola Gay

Amanda Marcotte

Trump’s defense secretary ends a 1965 policy barring racial segregation from contract facilities

Megalodon from prehistoric times scene 3D illustration, though the ancient shark probably didn't look like this. (Warpaintcobra / Getty Images)

Megalodon even bigger than we thought

Elizabeth Hlavinka

New research reignites debate over the size of this extinct giant, also suggesting it looked unlike a great white

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