You may have heard of the biggest story on CBS News’ 60 Minutes this year. It was a report that the show never aired. The network’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, pulled the segment, about what happened to migrants deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, less than 48 hours before it was supposed to air. Now, editors-in-chief […]
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On Tuesday, the Israeli government announced that it would suspend the aid work of several humanitarian organizations that provide lifesaving aid to Palestinians in Gaza living through what Amnesty International and other groups labeled as a genocide. Israel has claimed that the organizations failed to meet new vetting guidelines. However, as the Associated Press reported, […]
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Doctors Without Borders Among Dozens of Aid Groups Israel Moves to Shut Down in Gaza Read Post »
More artists have canceled their performances at the Kennedy Center after its Trump-acolyte-dominated board’s recent vote to add the president’s name to the performing arts center earlier this month. The latest includes The Cookers, a jazz ensemble, which called off their New Year’s Eve show on Monday. The band did not explicitly mention the name […]
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Trump’s Kennedy Center Takeover Plunges Further Into Chaos Read Post »
The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. In early April, as the planet’s richest man chainsawed apart the livelihoods of thousands of hard-working […]
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Hero of 2025: Civil Servants Read Post »
The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. It seems like a relic now. But Donald Trump’s presidency once saw some of the culture’s […]
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Monsters of 2025: Rappers Gone MAGA Read Post »
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said that her defense of survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and threat to disclose the identities of some of the men who abused them broke her relationship with President Donald Trump, who said his “friends will get hurt” if she went through with it. Greene’s claim came in remarks […]
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Trump Turned on Her Over Epstein Survivors Read Post »
Over the weekend, Covid cautious individuals shared clips on social media of Jon Stewart punching down on people who are masking, who are presumably doing so to protect themselves from Covid, the flu, and other infectious diseases that are spreading across the United States. On the December 11 episode of the podcast The Weekly Show […]
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Hey Jon Stewart, Jokes About Wearing Masks Aren’t Funny Read Post »
The man who allegedly planted two pipe bombs in Washington, DC, the night before the January 6 Capitol riot told investigators after his arrest earlier this month that someone needed to “speak up” for people who believed that the 2020 election was stolen, according to a court filing on Sunday. Federal prosecutors said that the […]
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Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Says He Acted to “Speak Up” for Election Deniers Read Post »
Kara Swisher, the veteran tech journalist who had a leading hand in uncovering the affair between then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and journalist Olivia Nuzzi, said in a Friday interview that RFK Jr. also needs to be held accountable given his long history as a “predator.” “It’s crazy that people don’t care,” Swisher said, […]
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Kara Swisher Calls RFK Jr. a ‘Predator’ Read Post »
The Department of Homeland Security’s complaint about being under a gag order on Saturday in its case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who the Trump administration illegally deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador earlier this year, likely violated the court order. Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the […]
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In Complaining About Gag Order, DHS Violates Gag Order Read Post »
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Shane Farrell has spent the better part of the last three years underwater, diving off the coast of Maine. The University of Maine Ph.D. student and his team at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences are surveying the rapid […]
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First, the Heat Killed Maine’s Kelp. Then an Invasive Algae Sealed Its Fate. Read Post »
Elon Musk took to his social media site on Friday to decry New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the city’s fire department, claiming that she couldn’t do the job. The commissioner-to-be, Lillian Bonsignore, is a 31-year FDNY veteran who led the department’s emergency medical services during the Covid-19 pandemic. She will be the […]
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