Post readers discuss New York AG Letitia James’ aide allegedly ordering staff to target people associated with President Trump — and her Michigan counterpart saying Jews “have a moral...
It’s easy to feel a certain schadenfreude over news of Meta’s $16.7 billion settlement with almost every state attorney general. Sometimes bad things happen to bad corporations. It’s hard not to cheer. For years, Meta has largely gone unchecked as it employed a business model that basically amounted to psychologically manipulating people through Skinnerian principles […]
It’s not often in Washington, D.C. that a special interest group directly contradicts itself, but the Hemp Roundtable did just that. In 2022, the Associated Press exposed how chemists were chemically processing CBD extracted from hemp to produce delta-8 THC, an intoxicating compound. A loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill opened the floodgates to unregulated […]
Harvard University has chosen battle with the Trump administration. Harvard became the first university on Monday to openly reject the administration's demands to change its policies, leading the federal government to pause $2 billion in contracts with the Ivy League school and President Trump to threaten its tax-exempt status. The higher education world will watch...
Seth Rogen's remarks critical of President Trump and his support from tech executives at a ceremony "honoring scientists as heroes of our society" were reportedly cut from a stream of the event. The "Knocked Up" star appeared as one of the onstage presenters at the Breakthrough Prize in Santa Monica, Calif., earlier this month. But...
GREENBELT, Md. — A federal judge Tuesday ordered depositions from several Trump officials, blasting the administration for failing to take any steps to secure the return of a Maryland man wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison. During a hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis repeatedly clashed with Drew Ensign, an attorney with the Justice...
About 1 in every 31 children were diagnosed with autism in 2022, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), continuing a trend of increases from previous years that researchers largely attributed to better screening. The 2022 figure marks a slight increase from the report’s 2020 finding of 1...
South Africa’s newly appointed U.S. envoy Mcebisi Jonas has already come under fire for remarks made about President Trump as the relationship between the two countries has crumbled in recent months. Jonas, who was appointed Monday by President Cyril Ramaphosa, called Trump a racist and homophobic during a speech in 2020, just days after former...
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said on Tuesday that the district will begin to implement a list of “extraordinary measures” — from hiring freezes to potential furloughs — because of the potential for severe budget cuts after the failure of the GOP-majority House to pass a fix requested by President Trump. Bowser said in an order set...
President Trump on Tuesday afternoon will present the Commander-in-Chief's trophy to the Navy Midshipmen football team at a ceremony from the White House. The award is presented annually to the team that wins the college football series between the Army, Navy and Air Force academies. Last December, the Navy sailed to victory with a 31-13 defeat over...
Trump's handling of the economy has led to a decline in his approval rating, with most Americans disapproving of his policies, and Democrats need to capitalize on this to win back control of Congress.
Support for the U.S. government or technology companies' attempts to restrict false information online dropped slightly among Americans over the past two years, according to a new poll. According to a survey released by Pew Research Center on Monday, about 51 percent of Americans believe the U.S. should take steps to restrict false information online,...
In his first public statement, the man allegedly held captive in his home for over 20 years by his stepmother says he's been getting stronger as he begins the process of reclaiming his life.
The White House on Tuesday asserted there was no scenario in which a Maryland man whose deportation to El Salvador has made national headlines and spurred court battles would end up living a “peaceful life” back in the United States. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt expressed exasperation over media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran...
Three GOP-led states are moving to strip unhealthy items from their food stamp programs that help low-income Americans afford groceries. Arkansas became the first state Tuesday to submit a waiver to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) asking for permission to change its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to ban soda and candy. Separately, Indiana...
The United States is rebuking a United Nations decision to extend Francesca Albanese’s tenure as the U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories. “The United States continues to strongly denounce Francesca Albanese’s tenure as the ‘UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied...
