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Donald Trump explained why he pardoned Trevor Milton, a campaign donor who was convicted of defrauding investors by making false claims about his electric truck company, in comments at the Oval Office on Friday, telling reporters that Milton’s treatment was “very unfair” and that “the thing that he did wrong” …

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen and a doctoral student at Tufts, wrote an opinion essay for her school newspaper The Tufts Daily last March. She, along with three other students, penned the piece criticizing university leaders for their response to its community union Senate passing resolutions demanding Tufts “acknowledge the …

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 …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) instituted a $5 cap on overdraft fees under President Joe Biden. Thankfully for major banking institutions — and unfortunately for working Americans — Donald Trump won the presidential election last November, and with his administration’s blessing, Republicans just advanced legislation to repeal the cap …

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 …

After various senior members of the Trump administration denied sharing “war plans” — classified or otherwise — in a Signal group to which they had inadvertently added The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine is now releasing additional details about the chat’s contents previously withheld over national security concerns. The Atlantic …

When veterans came home from war — from Vietnam, from Iraq, from Afghanistan — many of us didn’t stop serving. We traded our uniforms for suits. Veterans joined the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Commerce Department, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and every agency flying …

Senior Trump administration officials and White House aides had for weeks bragged about how the second Trump era was markedly more disciplined and well-oiled, and less shoot-yourself-in-the-foot shambolic, than the president’s first turn in office. Several of these officials noted to Rolling Stone that this assessment was due in part …

As Rolling Stone reported Wednesday, some Trump administration officials have been privately gossiping among themselves, comparing the now-infamous national security breach in a Signal group chat to something out of the HBO political satire, Veep. These officials are getting it wrong. This ongoing mini-saga of the second Donald Trump era …

The Supreme Court has upheld the legality of Biden-era restrictions on the distribution of parts and “kits” used to assemble so-called ghost guns. In a 7-2 ruling on Wednesday, the justices rejected a bid to overturn rules allowing the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to include …