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At the Conservative Political Action Conference, a new group pushed for President Donald Trump to serve an unconstitutional third term.   The effort, called the Third Term Project, is being led by Shane Trejo, who once co-hosted a neo-Nazi adjacent podcast…

It’s hard to imagine a better opportunity to oust an incumbent than the one currently before the Democratic primary candidates challenging New York City Mayor Eric Adams. In the last few weeks, Adams has been engulfed in a growing scandal surrounding the…

In December, Mother Jones published a roundup of seven things Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency could target if Elon Musk and his “Muskrats”—as critics have dubbed them—truly wanted to cut wasteful spending. On January 23,…

When workers at the United States Agency for International Development got an email earlier this month informing them they were soon to be put on administrative leave, veteran staffers took note of the name and title appended to the bottom—Peter Marocco, a…

When Sam, a third-grade teacher in the greater Boston area, walked into her classroom January 30, about a third of her students were absent. “The sun was beating down so hard and it was reflecting off the desks in the room, and the desks were empty,” Sam…

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Green advocacy groups filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration on Wednesday, marking the first environmental legal…

There’s been ample evidence over the past few years that abortion bans lead to death and major health risks for pregnant people and babies. Now, a groundbreaking analysis by ProPublica shows just how dire the situation has become in Texas since the state…

Not content with spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Donald Trump and Republican candidates in 2024 and then taking a wrecking ball to the federal government, Elon Musk is now trying to flip the balance of power on the top court in one…

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Environmentalists were outraged on Wednesday after the Trump administration moved to fast-track fossil fuel projects through the…

On Wednesday afternoon, New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrived at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan for what may be the last hearing in his criminal case. US District Judge Dale Ho heard arguments from Adams’ lawyer and deputy US attorney Emil Bove…