Politics

New York City Mayor Eric Adams told reporters that for decades he carried in his wallet a photo of his friend, Officer Robert Venable, who died in the line of duty in 1987. When The New York Times asked to see the image in February 2022, the mayor showed a …

Rapidly receding glaciers are leaving new tracts of Arctic land uncovered and causing a potent greenhouse gas to bubble out of the ground, according to scientists studying the region. The Washington Post reports that, thanks to climate change, glaciers on a Norwegian archipelago are retreating rapidly, exposing land that has …

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been booted from the MAGA-loving, far-right House Freedom Caucus after calling caucus member Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) “a little bitch” on the House floor last month. “A vote was taken to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House Freedom Caucus for some of the things she’s …

On November 2021, hundreds of QAnon’s most ardent believers gathered at Dallas, Texas’ Dealey Plaza to await the dramatic return of John F. Kennedy, Jr., who died in a tragic plane crash at Martha’s Vineyard more than two decades ago. As the crowd waited at the same spot where his …

A group of centrist Republicans is worried nobody on the GOP primary debate stage will hold Donald Trump accountable for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection. But they have a plan to fix that: boost Chris Christie. The group Country First — a centrist nonprofit founded by Adam …

The Department of Justice and FBI are pressuring multiple British journalists to cooperate with the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, using vague threats and pressure tactics in the process. I know because I am one of the British journalists being pressured to cooperate in the case against him, as …

In 1873, the United States passed a sweeping anti-obscenity law named for the vice-squad crusader put in charge of its enforcement. Anthony Comstock is said to have bragged that in his role as U.S. postal inspector he seized 150 tons of books, made 4,000 arrests — including of feminists Emma …

Tuesday, July 4, was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth. The average global temperature of 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 degrees Celsius) is the highest since satellite record-keeping began in 1979. The Washington Post notes that some scientists believe it may have been one of the hottest days in the …

Lin Wood, a former member of Donald Trump’s legal team and one of the foremost pushers of the lie that the 2020 election was rigged, has permanently retired from practicing law. Wood isn’t exactly riding into the sunset after an esteemed career. He’s faced a slew of legal action since …

In August of 1990, Yusef Salaam, then 15 years old, told the judge at his sentencing hearing that he looked at “this legal lynching as a test by my God Allah.” On Wednesday, nearly 23 years later, Salaam —an exonerated man, poet, author, and activist — has been declared the …