admin E. Jean Carroll officially receives more than $5M from Trump in sexual abuse and defamation judgment
More than $5 million was transferred to E. Jean Carroll, a significant move in a protracted legal battle with President…
Rare T. rex fossil sells for record $50.1 million at auction
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton from South Dakota, nicknamed Gus, has become the world’s most expensive fossil sold at auction.
Operation Boomerang: A return to military strikes reveals no good options — for Iran or the US
The collapse of a US-Iran ceasefire has returned Washington and Tehran to a dangerous cycle of strikes, retaliation and economic…
Justices Kagan and Barrett demand more Supreme Court security funding in rare appearance before Congress
Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett will implore House and Senate lawmakers Tuesday to provide millions of dollars more…
The bugs are getting worse
Because of climate, weather, acorn abundance (yes, really) and decisions about land use dating to colonial times, the bugs are…
Judges are getting more comfortable calling out Trump’s and the DOJ’s cynical ploys
President Donald Trump’s ill-fated $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund suffered yet another major blow on Monday, with a federal judge delivering…
Todd Blanche has to win over skeptical Republicans. Democrats are laying lots of traps
Blanche has participated in at least one practice run of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and focused on ways to…
Iran plays by Trump’s rules to deepen his war dilemma
Iran seems to be playing Donald Trump at his own game.
Trump says Reflecting Pool has been drained and will be ‘put back into service soon’
President Donald Trump said the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was drained Monday to make repairs and that it “will be…
Johnson gambles on ambitious summer agenda as GOP anxiety rises ahead of midterms
Republicans returned to Washington on Monday night in an increasingly dour mood about the state of their party: Growing fears…