Politics

Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th anniversary over the weekend, and while it’s more or less impossible to mount a three-and-a-half-hour variety show that pleases everyone, a single joke in this marathon running time has deeply upset thin-skinned Trump voters. Back in 2016, before Donald Trump was first elected president, …

Last week, 14 state attorneys general filed an audacious lawsuit seeking to have Elon Musk’s activities with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency declared unconstitutional and reverse them as null and void, because, they assert, the billionaire should have been confirmed by the Senate, and because DOGE is acting far …

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender individuals from the U.S. military. In the order, Trump declared that “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service” — a transgender troop’s …

The Trump administration has begun mass layoffs at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), even as the agency reels from a fiery mid-air collision just outside Washington, D.C., a deadly runway crackup, and mysterious crashes from Pennsylvania to Alaska. Hundreds of “probationary” FAA employees have received pink slips, amid an Elon …

Demonstrators from New York to Atlanta to San Francisco have taken to the streets Monday in the largest mass-protests since the beginning of the second Trump administration. The Presidents’ Day protests — branded, cheekily, as “No Kings Day” — are evidence of a growing public backlash against the authoritarian executive …

In another serious mishap in North American aviation, a Delta jet ended up wingless and upside down on the airport tarmac in Toronto, Monday afternoon, in a terrifying crash landing that resulted in serious injuries, but no reported deaths. The Bombardier aircraft — a smaller jet typically used for connecting …

Although Elon Musk’s quixotic purchase of Twitter, which he redubbed X, seems to have played a significant role in giving him full and unfettered access to the gears of government, one right-wing rich guy’s purchase of a media company did not result in his desired electoral outcome last year. Putative …

The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring the growing bird flu outbreak, Politico reports. Meanwhile, Kevin Hassett, Trump’s director of the national economic council suggested Sunday that there is not a need to kill …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that if the U.S. decides to leave NATO, “The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent.” President Donald Trump has frequently threatened to leave the alliance. In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, Zelensky told moderator Kristen Welker that …

Trump Border Czar Tom Homan is not backing down from his suggestion that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could have broken the law by holding a webinar informing immigrants of their rights during encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Homan said on Fox News last week when discussing the webinar, “Is …