Roughly 80% of career leadership at ICE has been fired or demoted under Noem's tenure, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. The agency is under immense pressure to reach arrest and deportation goals. This includes the early demotion of the first acting agency director Caleb Vitello last February. Noem tried to replace Vitello with her political ally Madison Sheehan, who became deputy director before departing to run for Congress.
One of the US government's top scientific research labs is taking steps that could drive away foreign scientists, a shift lawmakers and sources tell WIRED could cost the country valuable expertise and damage the agency's credibility. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) helps determine the frameworks underpinning everything from cybersecurity to semiconductor manufacturing. Some of NIST's recent work includes establishing guidelines for securing AI systems and identifying health concerns with air purifiers and firefighting gloves.
President Trump kicked off his Board of Peace proceedings by of course threatening to start a war, saying that he might go to war with Iran within 10-15 days, or maybe as soon as this weekend. [CNN] The monarch formerly known as Prince Andrew, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was released from police custody after being held for 11 hours, though he was arrested for sharing confidential national security information with Jeffrey Epstein rather than alleged sex crimes. [NY Times]
The text of the Clean Air Act and robust congressional debates at the time of its enactment bely EPA's central justification for repealing the endangerment finding and the greenhouse gas emission standards for motor vehicles-that the Clean Air Act of 1970 was concerned only with local and regional pollutants. It wasn't. But EPA's repeal contains even more flaws. In particular, the agency relies on three key Supreme Court climate change cases to support its action but mischaracterizes each of them.
Obama clarified in Saturday's podcast interview with host Brian Tyler Cohen that he saw no evidence of extraterrestrial species during his time in office and noted after the clip went viral that "statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there's life out there."
In an era of overlapping crises, corruption is no longer a side issue it is a structural threat to achievinginternational equality and even freedom itself. Each year, Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, a league table of 182 countries, is greeted with predictable theatrics: praise where it flatters power, condemnation where it can be weaponised, and hollow promises of reform that quietly expire once attention moves on.
It is, in short, a weed killer. It's the active ingredient in Roundup, the commercial weed killer that has been targeted by thousands of lawsuits alleging that exposure to Roundup/glyphosate causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a deadly cancer. And guess who previously represented plaintiffs in court cases against the evils of glyphosate? That would be Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in his previous existence as a prominent environmental attorney. In 2018, RFK Jr. helped his plaintiff win a historic $289 million jury verdict against Roundup maker Monsanto.
A New York City councilmember known for her fervent criticism of Israel faced harsh questioning at a recent gathering of the Democratic Socialists of America - because she had also spoken out against Hamas, as well as supporters of the terrorist organization who demonstrated outside New York synagogues. The comments came during Councilmember Shahana Hanif's interview earlier this month with the NYC-DSA Socialists in Office committee.
Like most everyone in town, we got all hot and bothered after the Transit Costs Project put out a report arguing that the city and state should raise $1 billion per year over 40 years to fund a massive expansion of the subway system, bringing the joy (and economic development) of truly rapid transit to more neighborhoods.
During the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milano Cortina, the crowd at San Siro stadium cheered when the US team entered during the parade of nations. When the camera cut to Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance, the jeers began. A few days prior, protesters had gathered in Milan following reports that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would be coming to the Italian city for the Games.
Trump's so-called "Board of Peace" convened for the first time at a roundtable in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, and dozens of diplomats, heads of state, and businessmen from more than 40 countries showed up to discuss the next steps for Gaza. But there were hardly any women and zero Palestinian delegates. Plus, half the countries Trump asked to join said no. Sounds dovish to me!
Dhillon's statement specifically referenced Mahmoud v. Taylor, the 2025 Supreme Court decision, which said that schools must allow religious parents to opt their children out of any lessons acknowledging that LGBTQ+ people exist. The court agreed with the parents' claim that their First Amendment rights were violated when schools used books that included LGBTQ+ characters. The existence of queer people contradicts some parents' religious beliefs and, thus, violates their First Amendment right to direct their children's religious upbringing, the court said.
The DHS website, Arrested: Worst Of the Worst, features the name, crimes, and location of arrest for thousands of people the agency claims were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But after CNN questioned DHS on the findings of an analysis of the website, the agency conceded that a large swath of the information was incorrect. CNN's analysis found that hundreds of the persons listed on the website had been arrested or convicted of very minor crimes, such as a singular traffic offence
Donald Trump forcefully defended his tariffs on Thursday, claiming tariffs are my favorite word in the dictionary and promoting their use to empower American manufacturing at an event in north-west Georgia. Without tariffs, this country would be in so much trouble right now, Trump said during his remarks at Coosa Steel Corporation, a steel-processing and distribution firm in Rome, Georgia.
President Donald Trump declared victory over the country's cost-of-living woes on Tuesday, telling the crowd at an event in Georgia, I've won affordability. Trump delivered remarks at a steel fabricator in Rome, Georgia, where he touted his economic record and a historically high stock market. After listing some of his second term achievments, the president claimed to have won the battle for affordability, a word Democrats had made the centerpiece of last year's elections and the upcoming midterms.
This is the thing that I think every Republican should win on, even if you hate them in every other way. Agreements for drug prices we're slashing drug prices by 400, 500, even 600%. Nobody's ever seen anything like it, said Trump. Because we were paying the highest drug prices in the world, and now we're paying whatever the lowest price is in the world. That's the price we're paying.
Still, on Thursday, Trump appeared to endorse funding the UN during the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace in Washington, DC. We're going to help them money-wise, and we're going to make sure the United Nations is viable, Trump said. And I think it's going to eventually live up to its potential. That will be a big day.
Senate Republicans need to go to the mat for this and they need to get this across the finish line, otherwise there's going to be a lot of Republican voters, or would-be Republican voters, that are gonna feel like, Why would we keep voting for Republicans? Why would we want to give them a majority if when we do, they do nothing.'
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act now dubbed the SAVE America Act narrowly passed the U.S. House last week, with all Republicans and one Democrat backing the bill. Its approval came about 10 months after House Republicans last passed the SAVE Act. The measure, which would transform voter registration and voting across the country, faces persistent hurdles in the GOP-led Senate due to Democratic disapproval and the 60-vote threshold to clear the legislative filibuster.
Yet while "Abolish ICE" serves as a unifying chant in the streets, Democrats are once again seeking to temper and co-opt people's demands into a narrow version of reform. The demands outlined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer could not be more toothless: requiring ICE agents to unmask, wear body cameras, and to follow a code of conduct modeled on other law enforcement agencies.
