Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
(Published Nov. 2025)
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What is one concrete, realistic step that should be taken now to protect the midterms?
We reached out to non-partisan voting experts with this simple but urgent question.
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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.
(Published Dec. 2024)
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Colorado can exclude Catholic preschools from the state’s universal pre-K program because they won’t agree to accept children with same-sex parents.
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
(Published 2021)
A US army sergeant with 27 years of military service – including deployment to Afghanistan – has said that federal immigration agents recently arrested his wife during an appointment at an El Paso, Texas, immigration office.
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
"Calls for “data strike” on May 1st: no social media, no AI, no streaming services"
"“What the technocratic class doesn’t want you to know is that your data is your labor too. Withhold it,” the data strike organizers say."
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We officially crossed into a totalitarian surveillance state operating via warrantless mass surveillance. Privacy is a myth. Preemptive policing is here. Gov agencies leverage modern technology to monitor citizens, bypassing constitutional protections.
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Official portrait of drag queen Darlene Mitchell from RuPaul's Drag Race
She hasn't had the most flawless run this season, but I feel like, for many obvious reasons, we would be good friends in real life, and honestly I love a kookie kween. #TeamDarleneMitchell
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Stellantis-backed Leapmotor delivers more than 100,000 EVs for fourth-straight quarter as BYD sales fall
Jonathan, the giant tortoise, the world's oldest living land animal 'is alive' after getting caught up in alleged crypto scam
BREAKING: Artemis II lifts off on mission around the moon. nbcnews.app.link/KbL7XEKxZ1b
if Donny’s fool actions already started World War III (open question) then it will escalate with micro-developments like this
good on Spain.
Baggies with white powders and white pills and an intravenous needle
External bigotry contributes. But so does silence within the #lgbt community. We must be blunt. We have allowed a drug problem to explode among our #lgbtq friends and chosen family. For fear of appearing judgemental or prudish we don't call it out, but when is it enough?
If it feels overdose deaths have become more prevalent among us #queers since the pandemic, it's because they have. Pre-pandemic #queer folk were 2x as likely to die from OD. Post-pandemic we're 3x.
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OpenAI news:
1. Sora is dead. May the memory of its four-month existence as a copyright infringement machine be a blessing.
2. Disney is pulling out of its billion-dollar investment in OpenAI entirely.
Turns out when you try to serve AI slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.
The companies were ordered to pay $3 million in damages to a 20-year-old woman who brought the lawsuit.
New Mexico got a historic $375 million jury verdict in the first of several cases nationwide against Meta.
The jury decided against Meta on every count, though it declined to award a penalty as high as the state sought, which would have been closer to $2 billion.
The organization, comprised of 38 of the world’s most advanced economies, said the conflict in the Middle East was testing the "resilience of the global economy."
A proposed bill would bar members of Congress, the president and other executive branch officials from trading on political events.
Lawmakers are introducing a bill to ban Congress and the president from trading in certain prediction markets.
The ban would also extend to: Lawmakers' dependents and spouses, senior congressional staff, political appointees, the VP and senior executive branch employees.
Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data. n.pr/4t5Y8GQ