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Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump’s Texas Gerrymander

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In a bombshell decision on Tuesday, a federal court in Texas blocked a new congressional map that was created after President Donald Trump demanded that the state redraw district lines to hand Republicans five new seats. “Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map,” wrote Jeffrey Brown, a Trump-appointed district court judge. His […]

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Trump and Johnson Are Still Seething Over the Epstein Vote

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After months of MAGA infighting and an unusual Republican break with President Donald Trump, the GOP-controlled House on Tuesday is expected to overwhelmingly pass a bill seeking to force the Justice Department to release a huge trove of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The bill’s passage—now seen as a foregone conclusion—appears to mark a rare […]

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South Carolina’s Abortion Bill Is So Extreme Even Anti-Abortion Groups Have Doubts

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Imagine an abortion ban so radical that even leading anti-abortion groups have lined up to denounce it. That’s what abortion “abolitionists” are hoping eventually to unleash on South Carolina, with a key legislative hearing scheduled for Tuesday.  Senate Bill 323, also known as the Unborn Child Protection Act, may be the most draconian abortion legislation […]

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New Report Indicates a Growing Public Resistance to Data Centers

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Election Day, Peter Hubbard was one of two Democratic candidates who took a decisive—and surprising—victory in Georgia. Hubbard was elected to the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), the body that regulates the state’s electric utility. It’s the first time Democrats have […]

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How a Mercenary Became a Minneapolis Mall Cop

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On their first day guarding a mall in Minneapolis, the men met in a warehouse on the outskirts of town at 4 a.m. to get “kitted up.” They put on flak jackets and masks. Some had military fatigues. Their boss, Nathan Seabrook, wore a walkie-talkie headset. He packed two pistols and a weapon that dangled […]

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How the Right Uses “Gender Ideology” to Blame Trans People for Everything

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Hours after being sworn in for a second term, President Donald Trump used his constitutionally vested powers to define “man” and “woman.” In an executive order, he said his administration would recognize only two immutable, biological sexes, determined at conception, in the name of “defending women” from a rising scourge: “gender ideology.” It was the […]

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Federal Cash for Lead Pipe Replacement Isn’t Making It to Illinois Communities

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This story, a partnership between Grist, Inside Climate News, and Chicago-area public radio station WBEZ, is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Lead pipes are ubiquitous. At this point, no state has gotten rid of all of its toxic lead service lines, which pipe drinking water to homes and businesses. But some cities like Chicago, New York […]

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How Many Republicans Will Defy Trump and Vote to Release the Epstein Files?

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On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives will finally vote on the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act. If passed, the bill would force the Department of Justice to release all unclassified records related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of minors, including flight logs, names of people and entities with ties to Epstein, sealed settlements, and […]

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Don’t Be Fooled: Marjorie Taylor Greene Still Wants to Reconcile With Trump

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There was a time when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) compared President Donald Trump to Jesus Christ and called him “the greatest President of my lifetime.” Those days are over. As I wrote back in July, Greene has been increasingly critical of Trump’s second term in office: She has railed against his decision to launch […]

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These Special Plants Accumulate Critical Metals Without Destructive Mining

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This story was originally published by bioGraphic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Alpine pennycress is a charming little plant. Its low-growing rosette of green leaves is topped by leggy stalks bearing clusters of pinkish-white flowers. As they develop, these flowers transform into beautiful flattened seedpods that, in the words of botanist Liz […]

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Trump Finally Admits His Tariffs Raise Prices

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President Donald Trump, who ran in 2024 on the promise to bring down prices “on day one,” has finally admitted that his tariffs do the opposite. On Friday, the Trump administration announced that it would exempt a broad array of groceries—including staples like beef, coffee, and bananas—from the tariffs the president proudly implemented in April. […]

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Trump Calls for an Epstein Investigation Into Everyone But Him

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For months, President Donald Trump begged America to forget about Jeffrey Epstein. But this week a House committee released a trove of the late sex offender’s emails, and Trump’s name was all over them. Now, he’s suddenly once again very interested in figuring out who enabled or even partook in Epstein’s prolific sexual abuse of […]

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