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Thursday, May 09, 2024

The difference between Project 2025 and Trump's usual authoritarian ravings is that Project 2025 isn't an empty threat, it's a concrete plan that will roll back your rights and put the government in your life. We've been warned. read more


The long-awaited first crewed mission of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will be delayed for more than a week after engineers identified an issue that halted launch preparations on Monday. read more


Newsweek talks to experts who say the Biden economy is doing well, much better than other Western economies. read more


The refusal to commit to accept elections results is "deeply concerning," said Steven Levitsky, a government professor at Harvard University who studies democracy around the world. "Accepting the results of elections is in effect the cardinal rule of democracy. It is the first rule of democratic politics. If a major party is not willing to accept defeat in elections, democracy cannot be stable." read more


Wednesday, May 08, 2024

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) appears to have ended her media tour to promote her new book as both Greg Gutfeld and Dana Bash announced last minute cancellations from the governor.


Last week New Hampshire House Democrats succeeded in passing State Senate 359 aimed at raising the age of marriage to 18 without exceptions, capping a years-long battle in the legislature which only raised the marrying age to 16 in 2018. The win comes despite significant resistance by Republicans, who voted in large numbers to preserve the practice, with 174 GOP lawmakers voting to keep child marriage legal in the state. read more


An Ohio State University commencement speech delivered at the school on Sunday by an alum named Christopher Pan--described in a pregraduation press release as a "social entrepreneur"--has made a bit of a stir for its focus on two subjects that are generally not covered in commencement speeches; namely 1) Bitcoin, and 2) Pan's own inspirational wristband company.


President Joe Biden traveled to Wisconsin, on Wednesday to announce a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft to build a new artificial intelligence data center. The data center will be built on same property of a planned $10 billion Foxconn facility that former President Donald Trump had touted during his presidency as a major revival of tech manufacturing in the U.S.


Russia carried out a "massive" missile attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure overnight into Wednesday, according to local authorities, in the biggest aerial onslaught by Russian forces for weeks. read more


Donald Trump's invitation to address the Libertarian Party's national convention has outraged many members ... read more


The Guardian surveyed the world's top climate scientists and found hundreds believe that the global temperature will reach 2.5 Celsius creating disastrous conditions for humanity. Many expressed feeling hopeless as government officials are not acting despite clear scientific evidence. read more


Kennedy said in the deposition that the doctor thought the spot on the scan "was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died." read more


Toyota has reported record profit and sales figures on the back of the weak yen and strong demand for hybrid vehicles. read more


Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been dropped by his accountant and cannot find another to take up the management of his beleaguered finances, court records show. read more


Israel says it is reopening the Kerem Shalom crossing with southern Gaza for aid deliveries, four days after it was closed because of Hamas rocket fire. read more


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