The Department of Defense is the largest employer in the United States, sending out paychecks to 2.1 million service members and more than 770,000 civilians. Its annual budget — $900 billion dollars —is larger than the GDP of Switzerland. With an estimated 750 bases in at least 80 countries, it …
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The Supreme Court has upheld a law banning TikTok in the United States, paving the way for the platform to go dark on Sunday. The justices ruled today that the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act is constitutional, rejecting TikTok’s argument that it violates the First Amendment. The ruling was unanimous. …
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President Joe Biden appears to be backpedaling on the TikTok ban he signed last year. His administration is now saying it won’t enforce the law that will boot the popular platform from app stores, which is scheduled to begin on Sunday, the day before he leaves office. “Americans shouldn’t expect …
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Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday will be held indoors due to cold temperatures, Trump announced Friday. The temperature in Washington, D.C., is forecasted to be in the low 20s with the wind chill dipping into single digits. Trump will be sworn in inside the Capitol Rotunda instead of on the …
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In the last few days of Joe Biden’s presidency, Steven Donziger hopes Biden will pardon him — as do dozens of progressive lawmakers in Congress, as well as human rights and environmental activists across the world. Donziger’s story is unique. “I’m the only person in the country to be criminally …
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to “Make America Healthy Again” as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services — petitioned the government to stop use of all Covid-19 vaccines in the heart of the pandemic. Kennedy petitioned the Food and Drug Administration in …
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It’s not every day that the highest court in the land talks about the constitutional laws around pornography, but such cases have regularly made for landmark rulings. And should today’s Supreme Court arguments about an age-verification law for websites like Pornhub go down in history, future legal scholars will be …
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President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address from the White House on Wednesday, speaking to Americans from the Oval Office for the final time. “In the past four years, our democracy has held strong and every day, I’ve kept my commitment to be president for all Americans for one of …
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The Oath Keepers are back. And leaked documents suggest the group is trying to rebuild its brand by targeting youth, and in particular the Boy Scouts. The infamous paramilitary organization has been in disarray since the group’s founder, Stewart Rhodes, was arrested, charged, and convicted of seditious conspiracy for his …
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Just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, the Department of Justice has announced its decision to withdraw the federal government’s lethal injection protocol on the grounds that it causes unconstitutional suffering. “Because it cannot be said with reasonable confidence that the current execution protocol ‘not only …
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