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I was looking for an adult to help protect me from what felt like monsters, only to find that the monster was him all along. Now I look to the government for help, and they are no better, gaslighting and manipulating victims, the same tactics as Jeffrey and Ghislaine Maxwell. The DOJ assures us that they are focused on our safety, but only to exploit us further.

This morning, in advance of a meeting between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, my colleague Hayden Field and I published a story about the Pentagon's hardball contract renegotiations with Anthropic. The stakes are higher than it should reasonably be, with the Pentagon continuing to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk.

Swastikas, calls for the extermination of Jews and the Jewish state of Israel, antisemitic violence, and open harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff: this was the grim scene at the University of California Los Angeles. The general atmosphere of antisemitism was, and remains, so severe and pervasive that UCLA's own official Task Force on Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias concluded that the University's failures to protect Jewish staff and faculty constituted a hostile work environment.

Trump is marching America towards fascism, and I refuse to normalize his shredding of our Constitution & democracy. This cannot be business as usual.

On Saturday, Democrats streamed through the Moscone Center convention complex, sporting lanyards emblazoned with Gavin Newsom's name and tote bags adorned with one of Nancy Pelosi's favorite aphorisms: We don't Agonize, we organize symbols of a party in transition as the former speaker approaches retirement and the term-limited governor eyes a presidential campaign.

Good morning. The Supreme Court's ruling on President Trump's tariff authority did more than redraw the boundaries of executive power. It also potentially shifted the operating environment for finance chiefs and manufacturers managing sustained trade-policy volatility. In a 6-3 decision on Friday, the justices ruled that Trump overstepped by using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to levy tariffs throughout much of 2025, striking down portions of the duties on steel, aluminum, and some Chinese imports.

Sarandos brushed off the president's threat as Netflix closes in on a merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. He likes to do a lot of things on social media, Sarandos told BBC Radio 4's Today on Monday. He added: This is a business deal. It's not a political deal. This deal is run by the Department of Justice in the U.S. and regulators throughout Europe and around the world.

Cohen: "So I want to do a little bit of a lightning round here, because it's not often I'll get access to the president of the United States. So a couple questions here. Are aliens real?" Obama: "They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in, what is it?" Cohen: "Area 51?" Obama: "Area 51. There's no underground facility,

The Transportation and Infrastructure team report included 20 recommendations, with suggestions to moving two light rail line expansions and designing a bus rapid transit system for South Jersey. They suggested allowing traffic enforcement cameras to address safety issues and to study an idea from Sherrill's Republican challenger.

Text messages obtained by Juliegrace Brufke of 24sight News appear to confirm that Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) had an inappropriate relationship with Regina Santos-Aviles, a former staffer who committed suicide by self-immolation last September. Another former Gonzales staffer who described himself as Santos-Aviles's best friend recently told the San Antonio Express-News that Santos-Aviles had admitted the affair to him, and that she had been battling depression ever since her husband found out about the relationship, causing the congressman to abruptly cut her off.

My daughter has been hearing my husband and me discuss this administration for over a year, and she overhears when I listen to NPR in the car. She started asking questions, mostly about what certain words meant, and what we were talking about. We tried to be as neutral as we could, which was extremely difficult. We talk about what certain legal changes could cause, or how policies affect families in our community.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is again turning up the pressure on prediction market operator Kalshi, this time tying its trademark concerns directly to March Madness, the association's signature men's and women's basketball tournaments. The NCAA claims that Kalshi has used its name, marks and event branding in ways that suggest an official link. March Madness is owned and controlled by the NCAA, and the association says any implication of endorsement or verification crosses a legal line.

Once upon a time, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (R) was considered one of the most extreme anti-abortion Republicans and one of the worst people, in general. He hasn't changed, but so many other GOP-ers are now consistently outshining him in terms of being a huge piece of shit-and Jezebel really hasn't paid much attention to him lately. But this week, he threw an embarrassing, sexist fit at the Munich Security Conference, over Trump not being allowed to purchase Greenland. Covering him almost felt like a return to a simpler, less fascist time. If there ever really was such a thing.

The UK is set to be among the countries worst hit if US President Donald Trump's 15% global tariff goes ahead, analysis has suggested. The British Chamber of Commerce told the BBC the UK would "sit towards the bottom of league table" of trade partners if Trump's announcement came into effect on Tuesday. On Friday, the US Supreme Court outlawed most of the global tariffs that Trump had announced last year, saying the president had overstepped his powers.

According to its website, Fresh Sky Illustrations: Is an artwork company that mainly focuses on bringing to life the hopeful feeling of being on a golf course by illustrating golf course scenes and providing framed copies of handmade works in various golf course gift shops while handling personal commissions on the side. Combining the aesthetics of the sunny outdoors, and old digital aesthetics from the mid 2000s, Fresh Sky Illustrations hopes to awaken a sense of hope and comfort with this handcrafted webpage design.

The 21-year-old man who was shot and killed after having entered Donald Trump's Florida resort on Sunday while carrying a shotgun came from a North Carolina family of the president's supporters and had reportedly become increasingly fixated on the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files. The focus of the FBI's investigation into the intrusion attributed to Austin Tucker Martin is tightening on the his movements and motives.

The National Weather Service predicted Monday morning that heavy snowfall rates and gusty winds will keep battering the Northeast and spread into New England. The governors of New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and several other eastern states declared states of emergency and urged residents to stay home. Winter storm forecast The NWS said very heavy snowfall rates of at least 2 to 3 inches per hour would persist Monday, along with 40 to 70 mile-per-hour winds.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared a citywide state of emergency on Sunday in anticipation of a heavy snowstorm expected to last at least 36 hours, beginning Sunday night. The measures include a ban on road travel for trucks, cars, motorcycles and even bicycles because of dangerous blizzard conditions, and to keep the streets clear for essential services, such as the 700 salt spreaders already deployed on the streets. The road closures will also affect public transit connections to the neighboring state of New Jersey.