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The American Civil Liberties Union and immigrants' rights advocates sued the Trump administration on its first day in office after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that seeks to strip certain babies born in the U.S. of the United States citizenship that the Constitution guarantees to them.

The lawsuit charges the Trump ...Read more

Hamas' release of three Israeli women it kidnapped and held hostage for 471 days provided quite the split-screen on Sunday. Israelis rejoiced that these young innocents had finally made it out of Hamas tunnels alive. Hundreds of Gazans surrounded the cars carrying the women to freedom, cursing them and vowing -- guess what? -- to continue a ...Read more

Right before his inauguration, Donald Trump issued a $TRUMP meme coin featuring a defiant him pumping his fist after an assassination attempt. Shortly after their release, the market capitalization for $TRUMP coins passed $5 billion.

Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett once called bitcoin "rat poison squared." Jamie Dimon, chief at JPMorgan Chase,...Read more

Of course the state has a legitimate interest in preventing minors from accessing porn online that is intended for adults. Who could be against that? Certainly not the state of Texas, which overwhelmingly passed a law requiring porn sites to verify the age of users seeking access to their sites. Sort of like showing your ID when you're buying ...Read more

Legalized bribery is still bribery -- and there is no other way to describe the celebration that marks the second presidential inauguration of Donald Trump.

With the menacing manner of a mob boss, Trump has extorted million-dollar contributions from dozens of corporations that fear federal retribution against their shareholders or management ...Read more

Does America value second chances? Looking at presidential election results, you'd think yes. Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Then, Judge Juan Merchan issued an "unconditional discharge" for it all, meaning Trump will not face any jail time or be subject to any fines. He not ...Read more

One of my editorial cartoonist colleagues got arrested for child pornography (or "child sexual abuse material," as it is also called) this week. As I write this, he is in jail, apparently unable to make bail, awaiting arraignment.

I won't get into the details of his case, or at least the details we have so far, here. It is, as these things go...Read more

"When I stand here today, about to take the Oath of Office, the flags at half-staff remind me of the long line of presidents. In particular, I am reminded of President Jimmy Carter, a man of honor, compassion and duty, a veteran, a man of deep faith, a fighter for human rights, a man who loved one woman his whole adult life, and a man who ...Read more

When Donald Trump took over the White House back in January 2017, an appalled opposition started a movement called "the resistance." Its purpose was to stop Trump's worst excesses. Some may recall the massive Women's Marches and other anti-Trump demonstrations.

This time, past resisters are saying they are exhausted. Efforts to revive the ...Read more

While I've been mainlining local news to see if my house, on the edge of an evacuation zone, was going to survive, my daughter (who I've been staying with) has been doing research on the air. As depressing as it has been to see these fires destroying my adopted hometown, it's been worse to hear my daughter's reports on the air around us, and ...Read more

2025 is a full year so far.

If you grew up in the beautiful (but parlous) land of Los Angeles and live in Washington D.C., the moment feels like paradise lost.

Seeing your hometown burn to the ground on screen, with high winds showing no mercy and leaving vast swaths of city life destroyed, makes tears run dry as fire hydrants.

Nothing will...Read more

One thing you can say about Donald Trump is that he's absolutely clear on his furious opposition to immigrants taking American jobs.

Except, of course, when the corporate honchos profiting from cheap immigrant labor are billionaire funders of Trump's campaigns -- or, hello, when Trump himself is doing the hiring!

A work permit program called...Read more

The Supreme Court's narrow vote to permit a New York state judge to formally pronounce a practically meaningless sentence on Donald Trump pursuant to a jury verdict convicting him of 34 felonies was hailed by some as promising news, that there remain institutional guardrails constraining the 47th president from doing anything he wishes after ...Read more

We recall the catastrophic fires in Maui almost two years ago, then the horde of unusually violent hurricanes trashing Florida's west coast. To the surprise of many, those storms unleashed cataclysmic flooding in western North Carolina, up there in the mountains. All these extreme weather events were tied in part to warming temperatures. As ...Read more

*Jean Paul is a pseudonym. All names have been changed to protect those identified in this story.

I hail from Cameroon, a beautiful country tucked away in Central Africa that's sometimes called "Africa in miniature" for its diverse geography, culture, food and languages. Sadly, since 2016, this diversity has also contributed to conflict between...Read more

What was Donald Trump's reaction to the deadly and devastating wildfires literally burning down a county that didn't vote for him?

This is what he wrote on Truth Social.

"Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt...Read more