A Texas congressman has filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump while openly admitting the effort has no chance of success, calling it instead a vehicle for "on-the-record disapproval" ahead of November's midterm elections.
Mark Zuckerberg won't have to take the stand after all. The tech billionaire was days away from testifying before a federal jury when Meta agreed to pay $17 billion and overhaul its child safety practices to settle claims that Facebook and Instagram deliberately addicted American teenagers.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, who also heads a panel reviewing the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, announced that officials have discovered documents in safes that pertain to the event.
The Pentagon has made artificial intelligence its top technology focus, according to Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael, who will address the implications of that decision at a major policy event Tuesday.
The United States national debt broke $40 trillion this month. Nobody in Washington called an emergency session. Nobody canceled a vacation. The Treasury simply confirmed it, the press ran the number for a news cycle, and Congress went back to arguing about everything except the one number that will determine whether your grandchildren inherit a republic or a receivership.
A federal judge in Knoxville handed down a ruling in May that state officials would rather ignore. Wilberforce Academy, a Christian nonprofit seeking to open a public charter school in Knox County, does not have to file a doomed application before it can sue over a law that bars it from even trying. U.S. District Judge Charles E. Atchley Jr. found that Wilberforce faced an "allegedly unconstitutional barrier" to applying in the first place, which means the school does not have to waste time on paperwork the state has already signaled it will reject.
In February, the South Carolina House passed a sweeping parental rights bill by a vote of 116 to 1, with the lone no vote coming from a Republican who thought it did not go far enough. Six months later, the bill remains parked in the Senate Education Committee, and the families it is meant to protect are still waiting on a body that has not even scheduled a floor vote.
In March, Finland's Supreme Court convicted a sitting member of parliament of a hate crime over a church pamphlet she co-wrote in 2004, more than two decades before the verdict came down. In December, European regulators fined Elon Musk's X platform 120 million euros, roughly 140 million dollars, under the Digital Services Act. Together, the two rulings preview where America's own trust and safety regulatory impulse leads if conservatives let it go unchallenged.
President Trump has threatened to file a defamation lawsuit against a left-wing think tank that issued a report claiming that the White House's deployment of the National Guard has not decreased crime.
The United States national debt broke $40 trillion this month. Nobody in Washington called an emergency session. Nobody canceled a vacation. The Treasury simply confirmed it, the press ran the number for a news cycle, and Congress went back to arguing about everything except the one number that will determine whether your grandchildren inherit a republic or a receivership.
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman now enjoys higher favorability among Republicans than any Democrat in recent memory, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune says the GOP conference would welcome him with open arms if he decides to jump ship.
A convoy of diplomatic vehicles with foreign plates was spotted rolling through Moscow on Tuesday, just hours after eagle-eyed flight enthusiasts tracked a U.S. Air Force cargo jet making an extremely rare direct journey into Russian airspace.
Trade tensions between the United States and Canada erupted into full-scale economic warfare this week after Ottawa announced sweeping retaliatory tariffs targeting roughly 700 American products, some reaching as high as 50%.