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Top school district put on notice as watchdog group threatens legal action over gender policy

A Trump-aligned lawfare group is demanding Fairfax City Public Schools in Virginia rescind policy concealing students' gender identity changes from parents at school, or they will sue.

600 groups with $2B in revenue mobilize 3,000 May Day protests in a ‘red-blue’ alliance, probe finds

A network of about 600 groups, including communist organizations and Democratic Party committees, is mobilizing roughly 3,000 pro-socialist May Day events.

Morality and mortality in Jay McInerney’s new novel

Eight years after the publication of 1984’s Bright Lights, Big City, that riotous and audacious first novel about a twenty-something man crashing and burning in the glittering streets and shadier corners of Manhattan, Jay McInerney broadened his scope and produced a multistranded, multivoiced work. Published in 1992, Brightness Falls documented the charmed lives of New […]

America’s AI doomers are doing Beijing’s work

When the Chinese Communist Party’s English-language flagship, Global Times, lectures American readers about the “high energy consumption” of U.S. data centers, it isn’t because Beijing has developed a soft spot for our electric bills. It’s because every server farm we don’t build in Texas or Virginia is one China gets to build first. That line […]

Spanberger’s bad day in court

The Virginia Supreme Court has denied Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s attempt to certify the results of her redistricting constitutional amendment referendum, a procedural step Spanberger had scheduled for today. Now the court has more time to decide whether the governor violated the commonwealth’s Constitution in her mad dash to alter it. The arguments in Virginia’s […]

4 more states will add restrictions on SNAP purchases in April

The movement to ban SNAP recipients from buying soda, candy and energy drinks with their benefits is growing.

Russia took satellite images of US base in Saudi Arabia before Iran strike: Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told NBC News on Saturday that Russian forces took satellite images of a U.S. air base in Saudi Arabia three times in the days before Iran attacked the site. During an interview in Doha, Qatar, Zelensky said he was “100 percent” confident that Russia was sharing that intelligence with Iran. On...

Pakistan holds talks with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt on Iran war

The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey will meet in Islamabad on Sunday, as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran hits the 30-day mark. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote Saturday on the social platform X that Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan arrived in Islamabad “along with Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia and...

Handicapping the midterms: Why the GOP is trying to change the rules

Election Day is still seven months away. Plenty of time, alas, for people who intend to win no matter the cost to free and fair elections. 

JFK grandson Schlossberg says billionaires, ‘massive AI companies’ spending millions in New York House race

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President Kennedy and a candidate for a New York congressional seat, on Sunday criticized the influx of billionaire and tech-industry money in his House race as an attempt to “buy an election.” “Look, I’m running against people who are backed by massive billionaires or massive AI companies, and they're...

Hegseth injects combative Christianity into America’s military

During his briefing on the Iran war last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested that Americans take a knee and pray to Jesus for the success of U.S. forces in the Middle East. A few days later, he read out a sermon praying that “wicked souls” be “delivered to the eternal damnation” in the fight...

Iran puts Europe on notice with ‘game changer’ Diego Garcia missile incident

Iran's firing of two missiles toward the joint U.S.-U.K. base in the Indian Ocean is putting Europe on notice that Tehran appears able to levy attacks previously considered beyond its reach.  In the March 20 incident, one intermediate-range ballistic missile fell into the water and the other was shot at. Still, while unsuccessful, it attests...

Vance says he’s ‘obsessed’ with UFO files, calls aliens ‘demons’

Vice President JD Vance revealed in a new interview that he is “obsessed” with unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, vowing to get to the bottom of the mystery before leaving office. “Trust me, anybody who’s curious about this, I’m more curious than anybody, and I’ve got three years of the very tippy top of the...

FBI director pushes to release investigative files on Rep. Eric Swalwell: Reports

FBI Director Kash Patel is pushing for the release of files related to an investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-Calif.) interactions with a suspected Chinese spy, according to reports from the New York Times and the Washington Post. FBI agents and other personnel in California have been directed to gather and redact sensitive information from...

House discharge petition on TPS for Haiti secures enough signatures to force vote

A discharge petition for a resolution that would require the Trump administration to extend temporary legal protections for migrants from Haiti earned enough signatures on Friday to force a vote on the House floor. Rep. Marie Gleusenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) was the 218th signature on the petition, which also secured support from four Republicans: Reps. Maria...

Sunday shows preview: GOP divide spills into DHS funding battle; Iran conflict widens

The funding fight to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) left a rupture among Republican lawmakers after the House voted against a Senate bill to partially fund the department. The Senate early Friday approved a bill by unanimous consent to fund DHS but not Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Border Patrol....

VP Vance wins CPAC straw poll for 2028 GOP presidential nod

Vice President JD Vance is the favorite to earn the Republican nomination for president in 2028, according to a new straw poll taken at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday. Vance earned support from about 53 percent of attendees who participated in the presidential preference poll at the annual gathering in Grapevine, Texas,...

Here’s where the funding fight for TSA, ICE and other DHS agencies stands amid shutdown

Congress and President Trump have made three separate attempts to direct government money toward the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) amid a funding lapse that has lasted 43 days with no end in sight. Funding toward DHS ceased after Senate Democrats blocked a bill to keep the department running. They called for sweeping reforms at...

The Memo: Pro-Iran memes go viral, striking back at Trump in propaganda war

The war on Iran is the first major conflict where the propaganda battle might be won or lost in memes. Pro-Iran accounts have unleashed viral videos in recent days mocking President Trump, casting him as a dupe of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and suggesting U.S. forces could suffer major losses if the conflict continues. The...

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