Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this morning, a blow to President Donald Trump, who has been heavily campaigning to receive the honor. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Machado was given the prize for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of …
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Jackie and her kids had been missing for four days. When Mimi Lettunich, a family friend with powerful social connections in Portland, Oregon, learned of their disappearance, she spared no effort to locate the immigrant mother and her four U.S. citizen children. It would take another eight days — and …
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As the federal government shutdown stretches into its second week, President Donald Trump is targeting nearly $30 billion in cuts to federal funding almost exclusively to Democratic states and cities. The impact of the cuts to public transit, energy projects, and fundamental civil rights programs could carry far-reaching harms across …
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In April 2023, moments after being reinstated to his office in the Tennessee legislature after Republicans booted him in retaliation for his gun control activism, Justin J. Pearson told reporters that despite their best efforts: “You can’t expel hope. You can’t expel our fight.” Two years later, Pearson is looking …
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The right-wing information sphere on social media is shaped by large, often anonymous influencer accounts that are then amplified to even wider audiences by prominent conservatives. Two such accounts are Defiant L’s and Resist the Mainstream, both offering takes on American politics, often alleging corruption and election fraud by Democrats, …
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This story is published in partnership withThe Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to itsnewsletters. In August 2016, exciting news about an unprecedented partnership between the gun industry’s trade group and the country’s leading suicide prevention organization popped up on social media. The collaboration, the posts said, aimed …
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Manosphere podcasters didn’t win Donald Trump the presidency in the 2024 election cycle, but they went a long way to solidifying the president’s support among large swaths of the young men who follow them. Now — nine months into the implementation of the president’s agenda — the same ultra-popular podcasters …
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House Speaker Mike Johnson continued to blame Democrats for the government shutdown, using misleading Republican talking points that insist that Democratic leadership is pushing to fund health care for undocumented immigrants. Johnson said today on CBS’ Face the Nation that Democrats “want to spend $1.5 trillion, and they want to …
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Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who recently trolled Donald Trump with a TikTok set to Taylor Swift’s “Actually Romantic,” will fight in court against the president’s deployment of his state’s National Guard to Oregon. “After a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, Donald Trump is deploying …
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T hey didn’t waste a day. In the aftermath of conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Donald Trump’s government immediately got to work crafting its road map for cracking down on liberal groups and the president’s domestic foes. According to sources with direct knowledge of the matter, within 24 hours of …
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