The “No Kings” protests drew modest turnout in left-leaning cities like Portland, Boston, and Seattle. But behind the scenes, vast sums of dark money funded these events, and a politically charged shooting in Minnesota turned a weekend of protest into a national flashpoint. Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered, and State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were seriously wounded, in an act linked to a suspect found with “No Kings” flyers.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a resolution to prohibit the United States from becoming involved in the conflict between Iran and Israel.
Judge William Young, a Ronald Reagan-nominated judge, accused the Trump administration of discrimination after it moved to cut National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants.
OpenAI has been awarded a $200,000,000 contract with the Defense Department, a move which the DOD said will center on the development of "prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains."
Outside Saturday’s military parade in Washington, D.C., several demonstrators openly endorsed political violence as a legitimate tactic, with one protester declaring, “I fully support if they’re angry and they want to go out and they want to throw rocks.”
