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On Tuesday, former President Joe Biden gave his first speech following the end of his presidency in January, at the Chicago national conference of Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled. “Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity,”…

Last week, a small group of protesters gathered on the steps of the flagship New York Public Library in Manhattan’s Bryant Park to “Kill the Cuts”—and stand against President Donald Trump’s crackdown on science. That crackdown, as my colleagues and I…

Nayib Bukele is so popular with the US right that his refusal Monday to free a Maryland man with no criminal record mistakenly sent to a supermax prison in a foreign country was greeted by MAGA types as being, basically, badass. The Salvadorian president, who…

In the future, April 14, 2025, may well be recognized as a monumental day in US history. That is, of course, if there is honest history in the future. Because this is the day that President Donald Trump sent a clear message to the nation: There is no rule of…

On Sunday night, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an interview featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who once again deplored the fact that US officials have been promoting Russian disinformation about the war between the two countries. By Monday morning,…

Donald Trump’s deepening partnership with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, was on display as the two leaders rejected the idea of returning a man mistakenly deported by the U.S. and locked up in a Salvadoran mega-prison. Meeting at the White House,…

On Monday, a month after the US government shipped more than 230 Venezuelans and other migrants to a megaprison in El Salvador with seemingly no chance of return, President Donald Trump extended the red carpet to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. It was a…

Earlier this month, the Vera Institute of Justice, a national criminal justice reform nonprofit, was notified that all five of its federal grants had been abruptly canceled by the Department of Justice. The lost funding, totaling approximately $5 million, had…

In the name of reducing fentanyl overdoses, the Trump administration has gone to the extreme—levying tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China; listing cartels as terrorist organizations; calling for the death penalty against drug dealers; and weighing drone…

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last Tuesday, President Donald Trump held a press conference to announce the signing of executive orders intended to shape American energy…