The Cultural Landscape Foundation sued today to stop the $13.1 million paint job on the floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The original quote was $1.5 million. The Trump administration skipped competitive bidding, the normal process for federal contracts this size. They handed [more]

Some drivers in downtown Chicago paid $5.78 a gallon for regular today. That price is the cost of 72 days of war Trump initially told the New York Times would take "four to five weeks." The 60-day War Powers Resolution clock expired May 1, and Hegseth told Congress the ceasefire pauses it, [more]

A Mississippi county prosecutor put up a billboard near the Tennessee line, advertising death by firing squad. It greets drivers leaving Memphis: "Welcome to Mississippi. Where the firing squad is legal. Think twice." Memphis is 64% Black. The prosecutor paid for the billboard and called it [more]

Twelve naturalized Americans learned today that the Justice Department began the process of stripping their citizenship. The twelve are indefensible. The lead case is a Colombian priest accused of sexually abusing a child. They were picked on purpose, because the public face of a new program [more]

Kathy Hochul didn't blink when it came to protecting New Yorkers, especially the kids. She wasn't guessing. Today, ProPublica documented 79 children harmed by federal agents using tear gas and pepper spray. Those are only the ones reporters could find and confirm. Tom Homan threatened twice [more]

Protesters filled the Tennessee and Alabama capitols this week before either state could finish redrawing congressional maps. Last Wednesday the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's map for relying too heavily on race, and three Southern states walked through that door within seven days. In [more]

Attorney and politician Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ignored established medical practice today and discouraged Americans from taking antidepressants. He and Donald Trump ran the same play when they said taking Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. And while no serious doctor will tell you flavor [more]

Donald Trump's Justice Department is building a list of nearly 3,000 Americans who volunteered to help run the 2020 election in the Atlanta metro area. The Trump administration is demanding their home addresses, personal emails, and personal phone numbers, all the way down to individual prec[more]

Donald Trump's prosecutor Jeanine Pirro told the country today she'll appeal the ruling that called her Powell investigation a pressure campaign. Jerome Powell leads the Federal Reserve, the agency that sets the country's interest rates. Trump has spent a year demanding lower rates, and Pirro[more]

Donald Trump thought he found another loophole. He told Congress Friday hostilities with Iran had ended. By Saturday he was rejecting Iran's peace proposal because Iran hadn't "paid a big enough price." Last night, Rubio used emergency authority to bypass Congress and sell $8.6 billion [more]

Donald Trump told a Florida crowd Friday it was treasonous to call the Iran war a loss, and made Germany pay for saying it first. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had said it Monday in front of high school students. The Americans had no strategy, he told them, and an entire nation was being [more]

Speaker Mike Johnson, third in line for the presidency, called on Republican-led statehouses today to redraw their congressional maps before November. Florida had already adopted a new Republican map hours before the Supreme Court ruling came down. Louisiana canceled a primary election [more]

A Secret Service officer fired four times at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, according to a Washington Post analysis of higher-resolution camera footage. The footage doesn't capture every shot authorities say was fired, but it shows none from the suspect. An officer was wounded by a [more]

Tim Kaine tried today to stop a war before it started, and 51 senators said he was too early because there was no war with Cuba. We have been in an undeclared war in Iran for sixty-two days. Thirteen American servicemembers are dead, gas is at $4.17, and U.S. bases in the region have sustain [more]

Doug Burgum bribed two more wind energy companies today to switch to oil and gas. The Interior Department that Burgum runs started cutting checks after federal courts stopped the Trump administration from killing offshore wind projects already in development. Today's $885 million in taxpayer [more]

NBC News reported tonight a number the Pentagon has spent weeks refusing to give Congress: $5 billion in damage to American military bases from Iran's strikes. In 2021, the World Food Program told the world's richest man it would take six billion dollars to keep 42 million people from starving.

A Secret Service agent took a bullet for the president at the Washington Hilton tonight. Forty-five years ago, agent Tim McCarthy was shot defending President Reagan on the sidewalk in front of the same hotel. Tonight at a checkpoint outside the ballroom, an agent took a shotgun round in the [more]

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche today streamlined how the federal government kills convicts. No modern president executed as many prisoners as Donald Trump did during his first term. The lethal injections he approved then are back. Blanche even okayed death by firing squad. To handle [more]

Amnesty International warned the world today about the United States, which co-hosts the World Cup in seven weeks. Amnesty tracks human rights abuses in places like Russia, Belarus, and North Korea. Today it joined 120 civil society groups in warning that the United States is now a dangerous [more]

The country's top cop spent this week suing The Atlantic and sending his FBI after a New York Times reporter. The reporter had called Patel's 27-year-old girlfriend while writing about the FBI SWAT team that guards her full-time. Yesterday, a federal judge tossed Patel's other defamation [more]

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been exposing the Klan for 55 years. Today, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who defended Donald Trump at his 2024 criminal trial, indicted the civil rights organization for paying those informants. Blanche accused SPLC of "manufacturing the extremism [more]

The first man walked up to Rumeysa Ozturk like he was going to ask for directions. He was the point man on an arrest team that whisked her off a Somerville, Massachusetts street for co-authoring a student op-ed. After 45 days in a Louisiana cell, an immigration judge ruled her status [more]

Harmeet Dhillon wants every ballot Detroit cast in 2024. Her Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department gave Wayne County two weeks to hand over 865,000 ballots, envelopes, and receipts, with a federal lawsuit waiting if it refuses. The justification rests on three fraud cases that aren [more]

Sarah Raviani wanted it on the record that Representative Cory Mills bruised her face and arms. She called 911 at 1:15 AM. The responding officer's body camera recorded her bruises and her statement. Trump's acting U.S. Attorney refused to sign the arrest warrant a year ago. Because Raviani [more]

Breaking: Iran reasserted control over the Strait of Hormuz overnight. Hours after Donald Trump told the world Iran had agreed to never close the Strait of Hormuz again, Iran closed it again. Trump often announces grand deals the other side never agreed to. [more]

Pete Hegseth modeled his Pentagon prayer Wednesday on the Samuel L. Jackson biblical monologue from Pulp Fiction. The next day at the Pentagon press podium, he said the U.S. military was "locked and loaded" to destroy Iran's power grid and energy industry if the ceasefire collapses, a threat [more]

The Army deleted its own tribute to Sen. Tammy Duckworth today. Duckworth flew Black Hawks in Iraq until an RPG took both her legs. She came home with a Purple Heart, earned her PhD, served as Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and raised a family. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who [more]

Donald Trump pardoned over 1,000 January 6 insurrectionists on his first day in office but wouldn't forgive the extremist organizers behind the seditious conspiracy. His Justice Department asked a court today to entirely erase their convictions. The last time we forgave insurrectionists who [more]

The United States military has killed 170 people at sea since September and never shown the world a single piece of evidence of their criminality. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called the strikes extrajudicial killings and demanded they stop. So did the Inter-American Commission [more]

The United States Navy will blockade the Strait of Hormuz beginning Monday morning under a ceasefire the president says is holding well. The two-week truce is five days old and already fiction. Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned that any military vessels approaching the strait would violate [more]

The majority of voting Americans believed Donald Trump when he said he would only deport criminals. Two Venezuelan doctors in South Texas have been jailed this week despite having valid permits and active cases. Two international students whose only offenses were writing a campus editorial [more]

The permanent record your teacher threatened you with is real now, and the federal government is the one building it. A grand jury in Washington has subpoenaed Reddit to unmask a user whose offense was criticizing ICE and posting "TSA sucks." The Justice Department went back to court Thursda [more]

The First Lady of the United States stood behind the presidential seal today and denied a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Melania Trump spoke for three minutes in the Grand Foyer, confirmed a warm personal email to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell signed "Love, Melania," [more]

The United States and Israel say they are honoring the ceasefire with Iran, but the Pakistanis and Iranians who negotiated it say they are not. That's exhausting to read, and it barely scratches the surface of what this country has lived through in a year. Consider what we've witnessed. The sexual

Donald Trump told the world a civilization would die Tuesday night, and for about twelve hours, nobody could be sure he didn't mean it. On Easter Sunday he posted "open the fuckin' Strait" and signed it "Praise be to Allah." He told children at Monday's Easter Egg Roll about hostile territor [more]

Donald Trump gave Iran until 8 PM Tuesday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or he will destroy its bridges and power plants, and when asked if he was concerned about 93 million civilians losing electricity, he said no, they want us to do it. That is a war crime threat from a president whose war [more]

The President of the United States spent Easter morning threatening to bomb 93 million people into darkness and signed it "Praise be to Allah." Donald Trump posted his ultimatum to Iran at 8:03 a.m. on the holiest day of the Christian calendar, then skipped church. He promised to destroy the [more]

The Trump administration filed an emergency motion Friday night to save its $400 million ballroom. The administration's lawyers told a federal appeals court that halting construction was "shocking" and warned that canvas tents on the grounds are vulnerable to missiles and drones. "Time is of [more]

An American aviator is missing tonight inside a country Donald Trump told you was finished two days ago. On Wednesday, the president addressed the nation in primetime, declared Iran "completely decimated," and called America's military "unstoppable." On Friday, Iran shot down an F-15E Strik [more]

Donald Trump's criminal defense attorney is now running the Justice Department, and his first act was to kill the law his client was charged under. Todd Blanche defended Trump through two federal prosecutions, including the classified documents case built on the Presidential Records Act. Trum /more

Donald Trump went on national television tonight to declare victory in a war that has driven American troops out of their own bases. His first primetime address about the war came 35 days in and answered nothing. He said the objectives are "nearing completion," then promised to bomb Iran [more]

Donald Trump announced plans to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the first sitting president on record to do so, as the justices hear his administration's challenge to the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, three federal judges drew lines he wasn't expecting. Judge Leon, a [more]

The profit taking is open now. Dwight Eisenhower warned the country about the military-industrial complex in his 1961 farewell address. He probably never imagined the defense secretary would try to profit from it weeks before a war. The Financial Times reported that Pete Hegseth's broker [more]

One day after eight million people marched in protest, the country quietly resumed springtime activities around vacations, basketball, and upcoming holidays. Lost in the day's sheer normalcy was Donald Trump's interview with the Financial Times, where he mused openly about invading Iran with [more]

Eight million of you showed up today. People filled 3,300 events across all 50 states and around the world, with 200,000 in Minneapolis, where Bruce Springsteen performed "Streets of Minneapolis" about the two Americans ICE killed there in January. People marched because gas is up a dollar [more]

Saudi Arabia flew its investment summit to Miami Beach so Donald Trump could keynote it on his way to yet another extended weekend at Mar-a-Lago. Thirteen American troops are dead. Over 300 have been wounded. Gas is up a dollar a gallon and the reasons for starting the war keep changing as fast

The Republican Party is building a wall around the ballot box to stop a crime its own leaders say hasn't happened. Bill Barr was the United States Attorney General in 2020 and found no evidence of widespread fraud capable of changing an election. Chris Krebs ran the federal cybersecurity agency and

Pete Hegseth prayed to God for "overwhelming violence" at the Pentagon yesterday, then eliminated most of the faiths the military chaplaincy serves. Pope Leo XIV already warned him that "God cannot be enlisted in darkness." The head of the Episcopal Church expressed alarm. Senator Raphael Warnock

Evidence only matters to this administration when it can be aimed at someone. The Fed Chair withstood Trump's public insults and threats to fire him, so the DOJ opened a criminal investigation into a building renovation he oversees. A newly unsealed transcript shows the government had no evidence

Donald Trump cast a mail ballot for a Florida special election while demanding Congress pass a law to make mail voting illegal. He never solves problems he can still use. Republican senators pitched him a plan Sunday night to end the five-week DHS shutdown by funding everything except ICE.