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Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) speaking to  Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.), and Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol before Johnson won the speakership for the 119th Congress on Friday, January 3, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Republican wants to give Trump 3rd term

Griffin Eckstein
Published 5 months ago

Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles carefully crafted the proposal to exclude past presidents

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 orders right out of Project 2025

Griffin Eckstein
Published 5 months ago

Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 during campaign but implemented many of its proposals in first week

Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and chickens (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trumponomics: Grocery bills will soar

Heather Digby Parton
Published 5 months ago

Trump thinks he won by talking about the economy — and now he gets to wreck it and enrich his billionaire pals

Iceberg melting in Disko Bay in Greenland (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

We need Greenland but not the Trump way

Paul Bierman - Undark
Published 5 months ago

The newly inaugurated U.S. president is missing the real strategic and economic value of the island: its ice

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. waits to enter a meeting with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Capitol Hill on January 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Trump opens RFK's war on public health

Amanda Marcotte
Published 5 months ago

RFK's hearing hasn't even started yet and the White House has already attacked vaccines, birth control and the WHO

Police try to hold back protesters who gather storm the Capitol and halt a joint session of the 117th Congress on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Smith v. Trump: "The last leg standing"

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Published 5 months ago

The lawsuit aims "to prevent the truth of January 6 from being erased from history"

Highly detailed crescent Moon (Getty Images/Javier Zayas Photography)

NASA awards $24 million for moon bases

Matthew Rozsa
Published 5 months ago

One of the companies to receive a contract is Jeff Bezos' aerospace corporation Blue Origin

Mature woman looking at documents in shock (Getty Images/fizkes)

More older adults have student loan debt

Zina Kumok
Published 5 months ago

More than 3.5 million at or above the age of 60 hold student loan debt, collectively amounting to over $125 billion

Host Pete Hegseth during "FOX & Friends" at Fox News Channel Studios on May 27, 2022 in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Hegseth paid accuser $50k

Griffin Eckstein
Published 6 months ago

Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense nominee seems poised for confirmation on Friday

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

GOP sent J6 witness lewd texts: WaPo

Griffin Eckstein
Published 6 months ago

An aide warned texts from GOP Reps. requesting "sexual favors" might come up if the GOP subpoenaed Hutchinson

TikTok logo on a phone screen and American flags (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Next up for TikTok? Trump wants "a deal"

Daria Solovieva
Published 6 months ago

Trump said the U.S. government could broker a deal for 50% control of the app

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)

ADL slams Musk for Nazi jokes

Griffin Eckstein
Published 6 months ago

The Anti-Defamation League excused Musk for making a gesture experts called a Nazi salute earlier this week

Texas Governor John Connally adjusts his tie (foreground) as US President John F Kennedy (left) & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (in pink) settled in rear seats, prepared for motorcade into city from airport, Nov. 22. After a few speaking stops, the President was assassinated in the same car. (Bettmann / Contributor/Getty)

Trump declassifies JFK, MLK files

Griffin Eckstein
Published 6 months ago

Trump reversed course on first-term decision to withhold still-classified files on a trio of '60s assassinations

Tina Turner performs on stage at Wembley Arena during her 'Private Dancer' tour, on March 14th, 1985 in London, England. (Pete Still/Redferns/Getty Images)

Turner's "Private Dancer" still rollin'

Nardos Haile
Published 6 months ago

In celebration of one of Turner's most beloved albums, previously unreleased music is coming out of the vault

Pete Hegseth attends the new All-American Christmas Tree lighting outside News Corporation at Fox Square on December 9, 2021 in New York City. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Murkowski, Collins vote no on Hegseth

Griffin Eckstein
Published 6 months ago

The two GOP senators can't stop Hegseth's confirmation in a Senate controlled by their party

Jacob Fortune-Lloyd and Blake Richardson in "Midas Man" (Kerry Spicer)

"Midas Man" feels like Beatles-lite

Kenneth Womack
Published 6 months ago

While Jacob Fortune-Lloyd delivers a compelling performance, the film glosses over key aspects of Epstein’s story

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, brings boxing legend Thomas Hearns to the stage during a campaign rally on October 18, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Judge blocks Trump citizenship order

Griffin Eckstein
Published 6 months ago

A federal judge said the Trump admin's reasoning "boggles the mind" before issuing a restraining order against them

Supermarket aisle, woman legs and basket for shopping in grocery store (Getty Images/Adene Sanchez)

How to save money on groceries in 2025

Michael La Corte
Published 6 months ago

Dr. Swanson advises thinking about your "health objectives" when conceptualizing your food needs (and wants)

Rachel Maddow, Host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" (Art Streiber/MSNBC)

Rachel Maddow, help us through this

Melanie McFarland
Published 6 months ago

“More than ever,” Maddow said in her Monday night broadcast, “this is not a time to pretend this isn’t happening"

Actors Bette Davis (1908 - 1989) as 'Baby Jane Hudson' in film 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?', 1962. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

Hagsploitation has gotten worse with age

Katie Rife
Published 6 months ago

This awards season highlights a wave of films exploring the complexities of aging, but a sagging trend persists

The Netflix logo can be seen on a building belonging to the video streaming provider in Los Angeles, California on 31 January, 2024. (Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Netflix is raising prices

Natalie Chandler
Published 6 months ago

The streaming service credited live sporting events for the spike in sign-ups

Sean "Diddy" Combs attends Sean "Diddy" Combs Album Release Party For "The Love Album: Off The Grid" on September 15, 2023 in New York City. (Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images)

Diddy sues witness for defamation

Nardos Haile
Published 6 months ago

Combs' lawsuit alleges the witness is "fabricating outlandish claims and stirring up baseless speculation”

North Carolina Supreme Court at the State Capitol Building complex at Raleigh, North Carolina (Getty Images/Dennis Macdonald)

Election denial lives in North Carolina

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Published 6 months ago

Republicans on the state's highest court suggested they are willing to toss Democrat Allison Riggs' election win

Various Halloween Candies (Getty Images/Westend61)

Red No. 3 is out. What about other dyes?

Ashlie D. Stevens
Published 6 months ago

"The FDA and Congress have a long way to go to reform the broken food chemical regulatory system.”

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