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California Elementary Schools Teach ‘Cisheteropatriarchy’ and ‘Decolonization,’ House Probe Finds

In fourth-grade ethnic studies, Berkeley Unified School District teachers asked nine-year-olds to define ‘covert resistance’ and ‘overt resistance.’

Supreme Court Blocks Trump Administration Effort to Restrict Gender-Transition Treatments for Federal Inmates

The policy would have allowed the Bureau of Prisons to grant trans inmates access only to mental health services and medications.

House subpoenas New Jersey over how 6,600 noncitizens ended up on voter rolls

Two House committees issued a subpoena Wednesday to New Jersey as part of an effort to get the state's documents detailing how thousands of noncitizens ended up on its voter rolls.

U.S. must pay for gender transitions for prisoners after Supreme Court declines Trump case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to revive the Trump administration's policy barring taxpayer money from going to pay for drugs or operations for prisoners seeking to switch genders.

Voters to decide if Massachusetts will be the first state to repeal marijuana legalization

Massachusetts will serve as a testing ground on Election Day for whether voters regret marijuana legalization 10 years after voters approved the retail sale of the drug for recreational use.

Bogus polling firm admits numbers are fraudulent, claims ‘experimental project’

A firm that has published widely circulated midterm political polls has acknowledged that its numbers were "fabricated" and claimed they were part of an experiment that duped some media outlets.

FEMA urges states to take greater responsibility for disaster response

President Trump's emergency manager is pressing states to bolster their financial reserves so they can respond to disasters fast and not rely on federal help.

Brad Lander, New York congressional candidate, says he was detained in West Bank

New York congressional candidate Brad Lander said he was detained by the Israel Defense Forces while visiting the West Bank and has since been released with a "warning."

Trump brings a last-minute rally boost to Darline Graham in South Carolina’s U.S. Senate race

President Donald Trump will visit South Carolina on Wednesday to boost U.S. Sen. Darline Graham, whose stumbles in her first campaign since replacing her late brother have Democratic voters hopeful - but not necessarily optimistic - that their candidate can break Republicans' grip on the state.

Fairfax County’s prosecutor declined prosecutions of illegal immigrants for DUI, drugs, says audit

Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano's policy of leniency toward immigrants has caused his prosecutors to regularly decline to pursue cases involving drunken driving, felony drug possession, shoplifting and grand larceny against migrants, according to a new congressional audit.

Macron slams as ‘stupid’ claims by Trump and others blaming Muslim migrants for French riots

French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that foreign leaders - including those "on the other side of the Atlantic" - are trying to exploit France's tense social climate for their own political agenda.

The polling industry keeps falling for (and promoting) fake polls

The polling industry has been roiled by problems for a decade now, going back to Donald Trump’s presidential victory in 2016. But the problems go far beyond the polls being wrong, as completely fabricated polls continue to pop up and be promoted as legitimate. A polling organization called Wedgewood Polls released a statement on Tuesday […]

Iran is trying to ‘create a rot from within’ through ‘information warfare,’ analyst warns

Yuval David warns Iran is waging an information warfare campaign on social media to undermine the U.S.-Israel alliance.

Minnesota rapper defends ‘solidarity’ with France radical activists, push for protests to come to US

Rapper Tufawon visited a Saint-Denis high school with Greta Thunberg before urging white Americans to "raise hell" amid France's violent protests.

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