I was deeply grateful to be interviewed by Marc Ramirez (@typewriterninja.bsky.social) for @usatoday.com on the sky-high stakes of this political moment and what faith leaders are saying and doing about it. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Renowned for his ability to weave unity across borders of race, class, gender and religion, Jesse Jackson's legacy is a tapestry of efforts to promote civil and human rights, peace, equality and economic and social justice. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced

Coffeehouses emboyding this Middle Eastern nation are sprouting across the US. What's driving the trend www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Yemeni coffeehouses, proliferating across the US, reflect coffee culture's roots in Islamic society: 'We’re not used to getting coffee to go,' said Qamaria Coffee co-founder Hatem Aleidaroos. You take your time and chat.' My story for @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

The judge's sentence reflected the gravity of the situation. Take a read if you think space puns are out of this world🛰️ www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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The US is edging into Soviet levels of absurdity.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Here's my full 50-page indictment of CBP and ICE and decades of corruption, abuse of force, racism, and misogyny. I promise you — however bad you've ever thought it was, the full reality is even worse, deadlier, and more corrupt. This isn't a "Trump only" phenomenon:

photo 1/23/26 by Alex Kormann for The Minnesota Star Tribune www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

“Where are they? Did we get pranked?” www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

'The feeling, the sight, the smell of identifying our son’s body will never leave my mind, body or soul,' Braun Levi's mother Jennifer said, vowing to fight for drunk-driving law reform. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"

The operation was upended when investigators intercepted 200+ parcels destined for Hong Kong containing about 850 prized turtles bound in knotted socks. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Soskin spent more than a dozen years in her later life working at California's Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, intent on filling in missing chapters of the U.S. narrative that only people like her could know. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Federal authorities have charged an Afghan citizen living in North Texas with threatening to carry out a suicide bomb attack www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Do you ever stop and wonder how many problems Jay-Z has now.

Love this obit to the humble penny by @typewriterninja.bsky.social for @usatoday.com Please read to the end!

"In the end, plagued by doubts about self-worth, it would finally fade from the spotlight, like a screen star of decades past whose phone had stopped ringing long ago." www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

He once made a pact with the devil. Now he's a Catholic saint. Go ahead and call it a comeback. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

LA Times now confirming our earlier reporting: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Trump announced today, seemingly at random, that he is cancelling fed funding for Gateway Tunnel, a tunnel for intercity & commuter trains under the Hudson River. The motivation for the cancellation—which is likely to be contested—appears to be purely the president’s hatred of Sen Schumer.

A letter from war torn Portland Oregon, truly heartbreaking. Please pass along so others across the world can see how bad it is🤭 #DefendersOfDemocracy

The revelation comes amid widespread coarsening of broader political discourse as incendiary and racially offensive tropes from the right become increasingly common in public debate. ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat politi.co/4onLnFu via @politico

LDS Church officially ordains its new leader www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

'The building is a mess of our own doing,' said Reagan Rothenberger, a civic leader who hopes to save the site. 'The greatest historic buildings survive today because someone spoke out for them.' #dallascityhall www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

The nation's third-largest city has become the latest flashpoint in the Trump administration's intensifying deportation campaign and crackdown on crime in Democratic-led cities. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

“To some people it’s a point of great pride, but to others it’s an evil symbol of the horrible things done to Native people," said Tom Lawrence, a 4th-generation South Dakotan, of the iconic landmark. Steeped in controversy, Mount Rushmore marks 100th anniversary www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

The parents called the plan 'unthinkable,' saying: "You are preparing to invite children to swim in the very river that may still hold our daughter’s body." Parents of girl missing in Camp Mystic flooding 'devastated' by reopening plan www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

“They’re acknowledging that this is a space that’s not optional," said Catholic influencer Angie Bosio. "We need to evangelize, and this is a space that people are occupying and we need to bring our Catholic culture into that space.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt now has a Secret Service detail.

“There is absolutely no good reason that Donald Trump took away this specialized help for LGBTQ youth. Mental health does not see partisan lines or geography.” - Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, the bill's co-sponsor www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

USA TODAY: Senators introduce bipartisan bill to reinstate LGBTQ youth crisis lifeline eliminated by Trump www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

'It will be important to determine if the Nebraska herd represents a new bird-to-cow infection, or if the virus was brought into the state by an already infected cow,' said U-Penn microbiology professor Scott Hensley. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

“They all believe... some people should be in charge and others are meant to be followers. That weaves in misogyny, because the people perceived to be appropriately at top are always men, so by definition women have a secondary position.” - UNF prof. Julie Ingersoll www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

“You get about an eight-minute window where you can try to give your congregation some consolation and remind them that good is ultimately stronger than evil," said Fr. Rich Miserendino of Virginia, preparing to deliver his Sunday homily. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

More Dems should have the courage to make this point. Trump officials conducting his unconstitutional orders should remember - every autocracy eventually falls. MAGA will be no different. Trump cannot shield them forever. Their participation in this blatant illegality is being thoroughly documented.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker on potential National Guard deployment to Chicago: "This is about Trump searching for every justification to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try intimidate his political rivals... to circumvent our democracy, militarise our cities and end elections."

With its newly released laser-engraved coin, “the Mint is trying to send a very public message by coming up with new technology that will thwart counterfeiters and set them back generations.” -- Scott Travers of COINage magazine www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

'I haven’t seen so many Black girls in cowboy hats and boots, ever. We’ve had our rodeos, but city slickers were never in tune with it. Now, it’s like the floodgates opened.' -- former bull riding champ Danell Tipton, citing Beyonce's influence on Black rodeo www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

'When Beyoncé released that country album, she told Black people it’s okay to wear cowboy boots and cowboy hats,' said former champion bull rider Danell Tipton, now arena director for the nation's longest running Black rodeo. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Weapons: the film’s horror stems from moral disengagement – a psychologist explains theconversation.com/weapons-the-...

Police had found nearly 200 decomposing bodies at the Colorado facility. “My son lay in the corner of an inoperable refrigerator for 4 years with rats and maggots eating his body and his face,” one mother told CBS. “Twenty years doesn't begin to count for justice." www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Live competition and performance offer communal experience on a massive scale, but they also offer a chance to make memories and — with the aid of kiss cams — to become part of the entertainment ourselves. USA TODAY: For better or worse, Kiss Cams are here to stay www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...