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Voters Can’t Sue for Disability Discrimination, Court Rules

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The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that private citizens have no standing to sue for disability-based violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the landmark federal legislation which protects, among other things, the right to voting assistance for disabled people and voters with low English literacy. The Eighth Circuit’s jurisdiction covers Arkansas, […]

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A Non-Exhaustive Timeline of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s War on Vaccines

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Long before he became secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services under President Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was laying the groundwork for his war on vaccines. As the head of the anti-vaccine nonprofit Children’s Health Defense, Kennedy amplified once-fringe conspiracies about vaccine safety and joined a larger crusade against the Vaccine […]

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“They Look Very Hungry” and a Familiar American Excuse

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As excruciating reports of unmitigated disaster and starving Gazans, including infants and babies, continue to pour in, President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to recognize reality. “That’s real starvation stuff,” Trump told reporters. “I see it. You can’t fake that.” When asked if he agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extraordinary claim that there […]

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Trump Is Making Thousands of Rule-Abiding Immigrants Undocumented

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Nathaly Maestre has tried to follow her doctors’ instructions to the letter. Her obstetrician and perinatologist were clear: At 40, eight months into a high-risk pregnancy, and after a miscarriage last year, she has to avoid unnecessary stress. But that has become impossible. In May, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration […]

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Why Your Energy Bill Keeps Going Up

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Americans are paying more for electricity, and those prices are set to rise even further. In almost all parts of the country, the amount people pay for electricity on their power bills—the retail price—has risen faster than the rate of […]

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Trump Team’s Plans to Exploit Public Lands Follow the Blueprint of Reagan’s Interior Secretary

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This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Since his January inauguration, Donald Trump has unleashed a bonfire of deregulatory concessions and promises to privatize natural resources for critical minerals mining, energy development, logging, and suburban sprawl. Federal lands, natural resources, and the […]

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Trump’s Panama Canal Chaos

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During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump talked a lot about pulling America out of international treaties and disentangling from military operations abroad. Once in office, he started talking about the idea of Manifest Destiny—that the expansion of the US was both justified and inevitable. In some cases that’s meant turning the tables on […]

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Under Trump, Paramount’s Merger Deal Must Include a “Bias Monitor”

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On Thursday, the head of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, approved the $8 billion merger between Skydance Media and Paramount, a deal that would allocate more than a billion dollars towards the latter company’s staggering debt. But the agreement came with one major caveat: The media company must appoint a “bias monitor.” According to […]

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Science Moms’ Bipartisan Mission: Educate Other Mothers About Climate Change

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This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The devastating flood that swept through Camp Mystic in Texas this month is every parent’s worst nightmare. Hours or days of fear and uncertainty, feeling powerless to help, and, for the families of the 27 campers and […]

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Republican Con Artist From Queens Reports to Prison

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Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) reported to federal prison on Friday, after pleading guilty in 2024 to identity theft and wire fraud, stemming, in part, from a spectacular straw-donor scandal that was dwarfed by his still-more-spectacular “entire life story” scandal. As political prisoners go, Santos is not quite on par with his friend and mentor […]

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“Woke” Superman Versus MAGA Whiners—Guess Who Won?

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The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. There’s nothing like a $125 million opening weekend to overcome MAGA whining, and […]

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Eviction Fears, Disability Discrimination, and Trump’s War on Fair Housing

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This story is published in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. In Minnesota, two tenants, the parents of a young autistic son, were told that they would be evicted. The reason? One neighbor had repeatedly complained about noise stemming from the child’s behavior, though it was nothing constant nor pervasive, according to […]

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