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The poll from the liberal publication The Argument found broad opposition to transgender rights among U.S. registered voters, with only around a third of Americans supporting letting trans kids get puberty blockers with parental consent and a doctor's recommendation. Over half supported requiring trans people to use the restroom associated with their sex assigned at birth. And a large majority - 60% - supported trans sports bans.

It's not hard to do the job you signed up for if you're allowed to do the job you signed up for, and President Trump and this administration backs law enforcement and gave us the resources and gave us the autonomy in you and I in running this building to remove the red tape, to remove the unnecessary approvals, and to get a thousand extra agents that's what we did, Dan.

A coalition of human rights organizations, anti-war groups, and Christian churches are urging the U.S. to cancel its $210 million purchase of next-generation cluster munitions from an Israeli state-owned company, citing the "severe, foreseeable dangers" these weapons pose to civilians. In an open letter shared exclusively with RS, the organizations write that cluster munitions "disperse submunitions across broad areas, making it exceedingly difficult to confine their impact to lawful military targets."

During questioning by Congress, Attorney General Pam Bondi used shouting as a technique to deflect difficult questions about President Donald Trump and the Epstein Files, citing the current strong stock market as an example of Trump's success. But Trump cannot be let off the hook for possible crimes just because he is perceived as doing some things right. Even a criminal as notorious as mob boss Al Capone appears to have been a family man who supported projects in his community. Such benevolence, though admirable, didn't erase the need for accountability when he committed tax evasion and murder.

It reports that Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the Department of Homeland Security in recent months. The goal is to get information on the identities of people behind accounts found to be tracking ICE agent movements or criticizing the group as it carries out its operations, during which officers have killed at least two people so far in 2026.

A New York City Board of Elections worker said it is not his job to report anyone when asked about processing registrations for non-citizens, hidden video footage shows. According to undercover video captured by Muckraker, in which its reporter attempted to pose as a non-citizen, a worker said he would process applications for non-citizens. "Once in a while ... we have people come in here ... and they register, they weren't a citizen," the worker told the reporter. When the reporter claimed to the worker that he was a green card holder from Canada, he was told he needed to be a citizen.

As a two-time Peabody Award-winning broadcast journalist and the founding director of the University of Colorado Boulder's Visual Evidence Lab - and as fellows at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences - we understand how video can be easily manipulated. Even when genuine, it can distort reality by triggering our own biases. Video makes us believe we are witnessing events firsthand, but we are not.

Bernie Sanders will be in Los Angeles campaigning Wednesday for the tax proposal that has the Silicon Valley in an uproar, with tech titans are threatening to leave the state. A large health care union is attempting to place a proposal before voters in November that would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of billionaires including stocks, art, businesses, collectibles and intellectual property to backfill federal funding cuts to health services for lower-income people that were signed by President Donald Trump last year.

As artificial intelligence becomes more mainstream, many people are using it to do things that they would normally hire someone else to do. AI is helping people conduct research, analyze options, and even create artistic works. While this makes certain things easier and more efficient, it means that some people will get reduced work or lose their livelihoods. For governments that have to look at the big picture, this means more unemployment which translates to less tax revenue, with an emphasis on social security funding.

In a candid discussion regarding the mechanics of President Donald Trump's hold on power, longtime Yale leadership scholar (and regular Fortune contributor) Jeffrey Sonnenfeld warned the president's chaotic style is often mistaken for incompetence when it is actually a calculated strategy. Speaking on the Raging Moderates podcast with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov, Sonnenfeld laid out the thesis of his new book, Trump's Ten Commandments, while explaining Trump is "dumb as a fox," and business leaders underestimate him at their peril.

There's no rest for the wicked, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has been a busy little gremlin eradicating civil liberties left and right. He's going after shield laws, trying to indict people for doing their jobs, running a cringe-inducing campaign for a Senate seat in the Senate, still reportedly going through a divorce ( the "biblical" details of which have yet to fully come to light), working overtime to ban abortion everywhere,

Berkshire slashed its Amazon position by 77%, continuing a pattern of reducing big tech exposure. This follows Berkshire's well-documented Apple trimming and reflects Buffett's broader cash-raising mode as the company transitions to Greg Abel's leadership. Buffett has never been comfortable with businesses he doesn't fully understand, and Amazon's sprawling empire of AWS, advertising, and retail may be too complex for his taste.

But Wexner was personally, professionally and financially tied to convicted sex offender Epstein for decades. Last year, Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted of helping Epstein traffic teenage girls, described Wexner as once being the financier's "closest friend." Wexner says he cut ties with Epstein in 2007 and accused him of misappropriating $46 million.

The CBS lawyers who are now trying to tell Stephen Colbert, who can be a guest on his show, work for a parent company that agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million to settle a frivolous lawsuit by Donald Trump against 60 Minutes, which Donald Trump had no chance of winning, absolutely zero chance of winning. But those cowardly corporate lawyers agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million in what Stephen Colbert correctly called, A big, fat bribe.'

I don't know about other people. I've been challenged with my weight for, you know, most of my life so the idea and I have succeeded and failed, I mean, like a lot people, you lose weight, you gain weight over the course of your life. I realize that other people want to make this about something that it's not, the governor said.

If you are someone that just wants to identify as another sex, but you know deep down that you're not, but you just want to be called he' or she' that's one thing, said Jones. He continued: But if you, from a psychological standpoint, think that you are another sex, you should not have a gun. Something that has been diagnosed as gender dysphoria is a problem. And all of us know it. We all have to fill out the federal gun form that talks about mental you should have to check that box.

But that memorandum, inconspicuous though it may appear on its face, demands careful consideration. It reflects not just another step in the Trump administration's "Great Undoing" of the postwar international order, but also risks serious and material injury to America's economic and national security interests. While the memorandum claims its actions will help to "restore American sovereignty," it will do just the opposite.

For weeks now, independent journalists, online sleuths, and citizens have been combing through the millions of pages of files, and last week, Congress got to see the unredacted entries that reportedly feature D*n*ld Tr*mp over 1 million times.

Meanwhile, the network has decided to retain a controversial health expert who was brought in by the new leadership, despite the fact that he is now under fire for his ties and gross emails with Jeffrey Epstein. He recently apologized for those ties and isn't accused of criminal wrongdoing. But others have faced consequences for just associating with Epstein. I mean, given all of that, it's no wonder that CBS made the decision to bow to Trump's FCC.

In recent years, particularly under the current administration as of early 2026, the U.S. government has shifted toward some direct equity investments and partnerships in strategic private companies, often framed as efforts to bolster national security, reduce reliance on foreign supply chains (especially from China), and support key industries like semiconductors and critical minerals. This approach has been likened across Wall Street to an informal "American sovereign wealth fund" and has led the government to acquire significant stakes in certain publicly traded firms.

PSAKI: Let me ask you about something. Trump was asked about the Republican candidates in the Texas race on Air Force One last night, and he kind of said, I like them all and refused to really endorse any of them. (LAUGHING) What did you make of that? Why do you think that is? (LAUGHTER) CROCKETT: I love it. There's a couple of things about this, right? A lot of people are like, there's no way Texas can do this.

It says a lot about how crazy our world is these days that the former president of the United States can casually say "[aliens] are real" in a podcast, and it was a story for maybe a weekend afternoon. Part of the reason this is not a bigger revelation is that Barack Obama squashed it, putting out a statement after this answer raised some eyebrows to try to lower them and downplay what he said.

I think it's ridiculous that the Democrats are calling for such action. Let's face it, when she made that post [which Fine was responding to], she went back and tried to say well she was just kidding. There was no joking in that post. When you read that post, it was clear. Randy responded to that post and I support him. I think his post was on the spot and the reality is people don't want to talk about the fact that what has happened to New York City is a shift like we've never seen before.

The Save Act will harm women voters, like myself

Prevention [of fires] is the most cost-effective tool we have," said Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, who sponsored the proposal.