Monarch raised a total of $251 million from investors prior to the acquisition but faced challenges commercializing its technology.

During the first 24 hours of the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, American warships issued warnings to six vessels, prompting them to turn around, a U.S. official says.

“My kid goes to public school, and I pay $100 a week for her to go do horseback riding lessons,” said Jessica Capsel, co-chair of the Pro-Colorado Education Project. “But if I homeschooled, the state would pay for it. Something is backwards about that.”

The Pentagon said its revised policy addressed the court's concerns, but the judge said its "slightly different language" that had the same effect.

Vice President JD Vance filled in for Turning Point USA leader Erika Kirk at an event in Georgia on Tuesday, where he appeared on stage to defend the former beauty pageant winner for her behavior and demeanor shortly after her husband was killed last year.

Woman in critical condition after being found shot along I-75 near Hartsfield-Jackson

The votes are in: AI will hurt elections and relationships

We had both before trump fucked it up.

We were far more secure with Joe Biden at the wheel. The end. Also, I don't have a "pocketbook".

Holy fuck! Talk about goddamn tone deaf. For the government that turned affordability into poverty in a year, every day Americans are not thinking about national security. They are wondering how the hell they're going to keep enough gas in their cars to get to work. These fuckers are toast.

Actually, how much we have to pay every day because of this nonexistent threat is absolutely our top priority. And while our national security is important, a manufactured war, and renting out OUR military, on OUR tab, to foreign interests, has absolutely nothing to do with OUR national security.

Sen. Roger Marshall: "I'm sorry that gas prices are going up, but help is on the way, and your national security is even more important than your pocketbook."

Rand Paul: "Really, the debate now should be, is a 47 year old conflict an imminent threat? Were there changes in their nuclear program that made this an imminent threat? And I don't think the evidence is there that this was an imminent threat that would allow the president to go to war on his own."

Senator Rick Scott: "All government does it mess up your life. Government is always the problem."

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MAGA cultists. 🙄

The implicit message behind this is that if an American citizen rapes your daughter, well, nothing we can do about that.

Orban didn't have some kind of magic touch or contact with "real" people. Hungarians have rejected his authoritarian populism and his faux-nationalist propaganda www.ms.now/morning-joe/...

Really important story from @wired.com: The Christian Nationalists who want to destroy the American secular state are now making their presence felt www.wired.com/story/govern...

An annoyed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. did a few rounds of jumping jacks and jogged briefly outside his office in front of journalists to disprove rumors of his failing health.

Donald Trump's Iran struggle has exposed a fundamental truth: the world no longer fears American threats, and traditional allies are abandoning Washington to form new partnerships.

NEW: “Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to," Gregory Bovino told Border Patrol officers in 2025. But a review of hundreds of such arrests shows that charges brought against protesters and bystanders repeatedly fell apart under scrutiny. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

Trump family deal spree could open door for future presidents to profit from office

Standard Patriot air defense doctrine suggests firing at least two interceptors for each incoming threat. Ukraine is launching only one. https://bit.ly/41upN8T

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the grim IMF forecast showed the conflict "will come at a cost" for Brits.

The Trump administration has taken an aggressive stance against DEI programs, and the President himself has issued several executive orders to that end, including one last month that targets federal contractors.

IN FOCUS | Is Trump OK? Experts warn his ‘narcissism’ and ‘insecurity’ are showing in vulgar Iran threats and Pope attack

"Reporter REVEALS Hidden Playbook Behind Roe’s Fall" www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ-r...

The civil lawsuit, citing the Dating App Reporting Project, argues that dating apps could kick off serial rapists, but don’t.

“So when I learned that the Supreme Court ruled that this kind of messaging [could] be protected, that adults [may] be free to tell children that queerness is sickness, dangerous, shameful, or sinful...I hear the beginning of a tragedy for kids like me.”

High agency is, in the end, the most aristocratic justification for inequality that American capitalism has yet produced, and it’s arrived just in time for the most grotesquely unequal moment in American life since the first Gilded Age. https://bit.ly/3Q8bzrF

Young Democrats planning to protest Vice President JD Vance’s Athens visit

“I have no doubt the Supreme Court ruling will be used as a rallying point for even further attacks on our rights.” The words of @jessothomson.co.uk after the Supreme Court ruled trans women aren’t women under the Equality Act - almost a year ago today. www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

The 2024 closure of the Gulag History Museum in Moscow marked a "horrific sign of the Kremlin’s instrumentalization of Russian history," Irina Mak writes in this op-ed:

Russia has branded the Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights group Memorial an "extremist" organization. In this 2023 interview, co-founder Oleg Orlov told MT that he saw Soviet-style repressions making a comeback in Russia.

US president says Iranian military vessels approaching the blockade zone in Gulf will be 'immediately eliminated' https://aje.news/k1q61o

Orban’s defeat shows the rise and rise of illiberal democracy is not inevitable (via Bloomberg Opinion)

Elon Musk was ubiquitous in Washington last spring, wielding unprecedented power helping the Trump administration reshape and, in some cases, dismantle federal agencies across the government. But now, his legal adversaries can't find him to answer questions under oath. https://cnn.it/4tbPbfI

What to know about Trump’s tax breaks for tips and overtime when filing state tax returns

Republicans always expected the 2026 elections would be tough. Then the U.S. went to war with Iran. Gas prices — one of President Trump’s favorite metrics — are fanning economic anxiety just as Republicans were hoping to focus on Americans’ tax breaks and refunds.

Suchir Balaji’s time in the public eye amounted to one newspaper interview, but his afterlife as a martyr has become increasingly complex, his legacy contested terrain. https://bit.ly/4cr7czx

NBC News' correspondent Keir Simmons describes the fallout from the talks between the U.S. and Iran, with news that no deal had been reached coming around 21 hours after Vance arrived in Islamabad.

‘Blasphemy’: outrage after Trump posts AI image of himself as Christ-like figure

Analysts warn Washington’s blockade could harm the fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran.

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he's fighting for his life to navigate these stairs

This is why you don’t elect idiots.