Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is reintroducing her bill to provide civil recourse for survivors of nonconsensual sexually-explicit deepfakes. Ocasio-Cortez is co-leading the bicameral bill with Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act was originally …
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Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service, Billy Long, is famous for mixing it up on the social media platform X, previously Twitter. Representing Missouri in the House, Long once earned the title of Congress’ most prolific tweeter. A Rolling Stone audit of Long’s social media diet on …
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Early Monday morning, when much of the White House press corps was fast asleep, President Donald Trump demanded the federal government conduct a “major investigation” into singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, a Trump critic, and his presidential endorsement last year. On Friday, the sitting American president had already warned Springsteen that he …
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Republican lawmakers are leaving the finishing touches on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to slash taxes for the rich and gut America’s already meager safety net for the poor — and they are working to ensure the health care cuts are sufficiently destructive and potentially damaging politically. Under an …
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The lawyer whom Donald Trump has empowered to investigate the Jan. 6 prosecutors previously helped run a nonprofit that raised money for dozens of people who were charged with the most serious offenses, including sedition, conspiracy, and assaulting police officers at the U.S. Capitol. Serving as Trump’s interim U.S. Attorney …
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Four months into Donald Trump’s presidency, his and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to “Make America Healthy Again” appears to be taking shape: It consists of throwing millions of Americans off their health insurance plans, making Americans pay more for health care in various ways, and slashing health spending and …
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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship on Thursday. Trump signed the order, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” on the first day of his second term, but it has since been halted by nationwide injunctions issued by …
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When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Rosane Ferreira-De Oliveira last week in Worcester, Massachusetts, the situation rapidly devolved into chaos and community outrage. Multiple recordings of the incident went viral, but what bystanders did not capture on video was how federal agents were able to draw Ferreira-De Oliveira …
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Donald Trump’s administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress — an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to maintaining the world’s largest collection of books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and recordings. While the takeover has been framed …
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As Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers ponder how best to cut Medicaid in order to pay for new tax boons for the rich, doctors, hospital executives, and advocates are warning that changes to the nation’s health insurance program for the poor could harm patients, quickly cause rural hospitals to close, …
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