Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation. (Published February)

Phillip: Shouldn't he have to provide actual evidence of fraud before just walking up to a building and saying fraud is happening here?

Some are using the cash to build new AI companies, while others are cashing in on AI hype while they can. www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe... (Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

JACK SMITH: “That differentiates this case from any in history.” He says he was still considering charges when Trump won, and Trump put Pence’s life in danger with his lies.

NEW: The Jack Smith deposition transcript is a devastating, point-by-point rebuttal to claims that the Trump prosecutions were “political,” as Smith details evidence of Trump’s crimes "beyond a reasonable doubt."

"I believe that President Trump wants to seek retribution against me because of my role as special counsel." House Judiciary Committee releases video and transcript of Jack Smith deposition. Joyce Vance has the latest.

Here is the 255-page Jack Smith deposition transcript. The House Judiciary Committee just released it. Don't let it get buried and obscured with all the bs news Trump and his thugs are going to flood us with.

Progressives who mock Stephen Miller bc he "apparently doesn't know" Dean Martin & Sinatra were children of immigrants are embarrassing. He knows. He doesn't care. He's not anti-immigrant, y'all. He's a white supremacist. Italians are fine bc they're European. He hates black & brown people. Period.

They're baaaaack...the Oaf Keepers. theconversation.com/the-sacred-p...

Let the sunshine in: After a decade of chilly trap beats and freaky club tales, the tide is turning on the genre's dominant sound.

Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

Fighting to be seen as the "member of the team" they demand you be, while never being treated as one. I wish that when I read stories like this, they'd just once sound unfamiliar and not resonate, viscerally.

apnews.com/article/sout... young men die in South Africa from circumcision procedures during initiation ceremonies

apnews.com/article/cfpb... blocks White House's attempt to defund the CFPB, ensuring employees get paid

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

And yet the President of the United States is claiming that affordbability is a "hoax." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Wrong bird, wrong year, wrong country.

apnews.com/article/suda... makes first visit to Sudan's el-Fasher since its fall, finding dire conditions

apnews.com/photo-galler... of New Year's celebrations across the globe

Now random douchebags are showing up to daycares thinking they’re going to break a big story. Many daycares are closed this week due to the New Year. Good lord.

CNN: “Surely you don’t think a daycare should be unlocked.” SHIRLEY: “There should be a reception area.” CNN: “No, every day care is locked.” SHIRLEY: “Fair point.” 🤔 He shows up to a day care with masked men and wonders why they don’t let him in.

apnews.com/article/iowa... Renee Hardman wins Iowa state Senate seat, blocking GOP from reclaiming a supermajority

Economists see the tax cuts in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” as a principal driver of the U.S. economy in 2026, both for individuals and businesses. Here are some details about what’s in store.

apnews.com/article/snap... bans on soda, candy and other foods take effect in five states Jan. 1

You can thank the Trump administration for the US food supply chain having all these product recalls. apnews.com/article/beef...  Idaho company recalls nearly 3,000 pounds of ground beef for E. coli risk

apnews.com/article/kilm... pushed to prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia only after mistaken deportation, judge's order says

apnews.com/article/neth... removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery in the Netherlands draws backlash

When I wrote in April that Trump was helping Putin kill Ukrainians by weakening Ukrainian air defense, some people got upset and said I was being too harsh. Guess what happened in 2025? US aid to Ukr withered and at the same time, Ukrainian civilian deaths rose steeply. news.un.org/en/story/202...

More out of touch rhetoric coming out of the White House. My health insurance premium just went up over $1000 per month. A one time refund of $1K-$2K is not “gignatic”.

The Magnolia Petroleum Company brought its booming business headquarters to Dallas in the 1920s, but it would be another decade later before the bright red logo set the city’s skyline aglow.

Unfortunately in America this type of act from a business owner is the exception not the rule. youtube.com/shorts/sZrzI...

“Scholars trying to uncover the lives of these diasporic Africans are forced to work with historical records produced by their European and American enslavers. These writers mostly ignored Africans’ individual identities” theconversation.com/apongo-was-a... Source: The Conversation

Loser Mike Johnson hopes we forgot about extending ACA tax credits while he was on Christmas vacation. Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:

NEW: DOJ has been to multiple venues trying to shop their criminal case against the people who investigated Russian election interference. And they keep failing. So they're trying to add a grand jury in Judge Aileen Cannon's jurisdiction. youtu.be/W4pImd81anA?...

Who the hell is "we?"

apnews.com/article/anth... world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is 'stable' after 2 die in car accident in Nigeria

apnews.com/article/trum... FOCUS: Trump says he's ended eight wars. His numbers are off

apnews.com/article/suda... gunshots to the Africa Cup, Sudanese players endure brutal war to bring hope

apnews.com/article/mexi... Train derails in southern Mexico, killing at least 13 and injuring dozens

apnews.com/article/braz... judge puts coup plot convicts under house arrest after former police commander flees

apnews.com/article/rich... dismisses criminal case against TikTok streamer held in immigration detention

apnews.com/article/iran... president says his country is in a full-scale war with the West

apnews.com/article/char... orders release of transcript from closed hearing for man accused of killing Charlie Kirk

Brigitte Bardot, who has died aged 91, once the most photographed woman in Europe and a symbol of post‑war cinematic modernity, spent the latter half of her life not in the spotlight of film but in the trenches of France’s extreme‑right politics...

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.

apnews.com/article/wint... bomb cyclone brings blizzards to the Midwest before turning east