Ohioans for Cannabis Choice is mounting a referendum effort against a law cracking down on intoxicating hemp and making changes to Ohio’s voter-passed recreational marijuana law, looking to put the referendum rolling back the changes to voters in November ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/31/o...

President Donald Trump spent his New Year's Eve lashing out at Democrats and vowing not to extend health care subsidies.

Thousands of Denver city employees can begin exercising their new rights to negotiate salaries and working conditions in groups at the start of 2026, more than a year after the vast majority of voters granted them union rights.

Preservationists have public opinion on their side in the White House ballroom fiasco. Brutalism, characterised by hulking, exposed concrete, is a different story

This renewed push for sex-segregated education is a counterrevolutionary project aimed at undoing constitutional equality and reinstating a rigid vision of sex roles under the guise of civic renewal. trib.al/QpUlr5L

The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building. n.pr/49tB0uS

“Legislative leaders painted the whole thing as an unpleasant misunderstanding… More likely lawmakers were worried if the initiative actually came to a vote of the people, the anti-union law would be repealed by an embarrassingly overwhelming majority.”

In blowing up an alleged narco-terrorists’ boat, destroying evidence and repatriating the survivors, the U.S. cut short a process that’s helped bring down traffickers.

Internet-connected cars allow abusers to track domestic violence survivors after they leave

At The Local, we pride ourselves on pairing compelling stories with eye-catching visuals. In our Year in Photos, we go behind the scenes of some of the most memorable photos of the year, and hear from photographers about what it took to get the perfect shot.

Conservatives have long seen supporting Israel as an act of faith. Now that belief is under fire by MAGA. religionnews.com/2025/12/23/c...

It is one thing to feel no animus towards ordinary Russians, another to host them for a mini-break just as defence spending in Europe is surging to take on a threat from their backyard

MFP News Editor Ashton Pittman spoke with at least one federal employee who described being “shocked and chilled to (her) core” after receiving an email directing them to turn in coworkers thought to be working against efforts to find and cancel DEI programs.

Tow truck driver Bobby Nunez had only moved the ICE vehicle one block away, with the SUV reportedly returned to agents within 13 minutes. Yet, Nunez faced up to 10 years in prison. A federal jury Sunday refused to indict him, which sent Stephen Miller into a tantrum: trib.al/QGNW975

A disturbing account from a Queens woman describes immigration detention with her first-grade daughter.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of State from arresting or deporting Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

The issue wasn’t just that the speaker claimed not to know anything about his own government, but that he insisted on answering questions anyway. trib.al/LMLEBp0

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default early next year.

Several state-approved textbook chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.” Published April with @texastribune.org

President Donald Trump's announcement that a new class of U.S. Navy battleships would bear his name quickly set off a firestorm across social media, as critics argued it was the latest example of Trump rebranding public institutions in his own image.

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

Rep. Joe Neguse also thinks this is payback over Tina Peters. It's attempted extortion by Trump: pardon his friends or your institutions will be cut. Same threat he made to Indiana: redistrict or he slashes your funding. If Congress wants to keep the power of the purse they need to push back, hard.

So Jan 6 comes lumbering back into relevance, now demolishing US science. Tina Peters's actions, and those of many others, were set-dressing to give people the idea there was election fraud. It was all an act, to fake-justify throwing out the electoral votes. And that's what Jan 6 was for too.

Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’

The hack comes after Paramount CEO David Ellison reportedly told Trump administration officials that “sweeping changes” would be made at CNN if Paramount acquired Warner Bros. instead of Netflix.

Every few years, the GOP majority pushes us closer and closer to a system of election by oligarchs.

📥 Sen. Kelly: Read boat strike memo into Congressional Record You can, and should, follow the historic lead of Sen. Mike Gravel, who in 1971 read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record. Read about this and more in our weekly newsletter, The Classifieds, (and subscribe).

America’s widening economic divide endangers Trump’s midterm hopes on.ft.com/4rzRNDE

Hollywood is fretting over Tilly Norwood, an AI actress unbound by the limits of physical ability, age or talent. Here’s a look inside the creation of Tilly, the brainchild of Eline Van der Velden.

Donald Trump made a comment on Sunday that numerous observers say showed the president's intention to bribe a congressman.

Hey, Does Anyone Want to Talk About Donald Trump’s Infirmities? trib.al/O3D0W24

A law signed in November by President Donald Trump compels a release later this month of the vast troves of material investigators have amassed during investigations into Epstein that date back at least two decades. Friday’s court ruling dealt with the earliest known federal inquiry.

The Democrat is running for reelection after the president pardoned him on bribery charges. Trump called the move a "lack of loyalty."

Noem insisted that the suspected shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was vetted for asylum by the Biden administration—despite the fact that it was her department that granted the asylum request in April. trib.al/zyUfEvo

Zohran Mamdani tells immigrant New Yorkers about their right not to comply with ICE

Through a spectacularly ham-handed series of moves, the Trump administration has ensured that Epstein conspiracy theories will never really end.

“Steve Pearce’s nomination is a referendum on whether Congress believes our shared lands still belong to all Americans,” writes Aaron Weiss in an op-ed.

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

African-American community pushes to build parklet in Mount Pleasant #chsnews

A lawyer representing the mother of a Trump administration official's nephew, who is currently in the custody of immigration agents, pushed back on claims made about the nature of their relationship, according to a new report.

New Data Reveals Alarming Rise in Cancer Diagnoses for Younger Women

One by one, each of the nine prisoners appeared virtually before a special panel of the Louisiana parole board. “Today you’ve been paroled,” the chair said at the end of every hearing, “to go straight into an ICE facility for deportation.” With @veritenews.org

An AI server farm tsunami threatens to overwhelm the West’s power grid and water supplies.

Pete Hegseth just admitted to murder and is heading toward executing a massive mission that one ex-GOP insider says will "end in ruin.

Breaking News: Tom Stoppard, the playwright known for a witty, cerebral style who drew comparisons to Shakespeare and Shaw, has died at 88.

Many disability advocates are concerned about the state of education for disabled kids. Here's why: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...