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W aving red-and-white flags and blasting an independence song from a speaker box, a parade of about 40 Siumut faithful, long the dominant political party, is on the march in Nuuk, Greenland’s frozen capital. Cloaked in parkas, they pass a cluster of wooden homes built by the first Danish settlers …

Elon Musk is posting through it. Since polls closed in Wisconsin on Tuesday night, he’s posted about genetically-engineered cat girls, humanoid robots, and Tesla sales, along with multiple AI-generated images of himself and CIA Director John Ratliff. He has not posted at all about the person he spent the last …

The Trump administration gutted federal health agencies on Tuesday morning, as thousands of employees received layoff notices, following Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement last week he was planning to lay off nearly 10,000 workers. More than 7,000 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and …

The lawyer working for Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who now leads the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has a history of violence and racist remarks, 10 people who knew him allege. Jeremy Lewin recently became deputy administrator for policy and programs for …

Windmills cause cancer. They’re killing birds and whales. Electric vehicles don’t work. Have you heard about the electric sharks? Climate change is a hoax. There are many things Donald Trump has said about climate change and renewable energy that are difficult to make sense of, but Trump’s newest line on …

At his million-dollar elections giveaway in Wisconsin on Sunday night, Elon Musk shared a supposedly “mind-blowing” chart showing a sharp uptick in immigrants receiving Social Security numbers. The chart showed that noncitizens have increasingly been granted Social Security numbers, not benefits, although Musk and Antonio Gracias, a staffer with his …

Reports that Donald Trump’s top national security officials accidentally shared their Yemen attack plans with The Atlantic in real-time drove the news in official Washington in recent days. But it wasn’t the only damaging leak of information held by the administration this week. Two Trump administration spreadsheets — which each …

The Trump administration continues to amp up their targeted attacks on international student visa-holders as part of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s “Catch and Revoke” program targeting pro-Palestine activists. Several foreign students have been arrested and detained, pulled off the sidewalk by plainclothes agents, and driven away in unmarked vehicles, …

After Democrats lost the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives in last year’s election, Saikat Chakrabarti waited for the party’s leaders to acknowledge — if not address — their mistakes. “I was sort of expecting the Democrats to have a big realization that, ‘Oh my Gosh. We …

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published byRolling Stonewith permission. One by one,men in the prison-like clothing worn by people in immigration custody sit in front of the video conference camera and point to bruises on their bodies. Some point to their faces. Others gesture to …