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McCarthy’s Day One Plan: Gut the Office of Congressional Ethics

Published 2023-01-08 16:48:59 UTC

The House GOP Is All Revved Up to Investigate the Investigators

Published 2023-01-08 18:36:57 UTC

Extreme Right-Wing Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Brazilian Capital

Published 2023-01-08 19:41:33 UTC

Of Course Steve Bannon and January 6 Fans Are Cheering on the Brazilian Insurrection

Published 2023-01-08 22:20:47 UTC

Environmentalists Hate the EPA’s Proposed Biofuel Standards

Published 2023-01-09 11:00:36 UTC

Federal Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves

Published 2023-01-09 19:42:33 UTC

Brazil Just Had Its January 6. It Wasn’t Hard to See It Coming.

Published 2023-01-09 20:45:57 UTC

A 6-Year-Old Shot His Teacher With a Gun Purchased by His Mom

Published 2023-01-10 01:49:35 UTC

5 Climate Questions for 2023

Published 2023-01-10 11:00:54 UTC

A Tax Guru Explains Why Donald Trump May Finally Be in Trouble

Published 2023-01-10 11:00:49 UTC

How Did All These State Agencies Get To Be So Funny?

Published 2023-01-10 11:00:01 UTC

The Case Against a More Cinematic C-SPAN

Published 2023-01-10 16:12:57 UTC

Top Trump Executive Sentenced to Five Months in Tax Fraud Case

Published 2023-01-10 20:22:49 UTC

Tell Us About Coming of Age During #MeToo

Published 2023-01-10 23:20:58 UTC

Madagascar’s Unique Creatures Face a Wave of Extinction

Published 2023-01-11 11:00:26 UTC

A Law Signed by Bolsonaro Paved the Way for Authorities to Prosecute His Insurrectionists

Published 2023-01-11 11:00:02 UTC

Florida Congresswoman Explains What It’s Like to Be Forced to Carry a “Dead Baby” to Term

Published 2023-01-11 22:59:41 UTC

In Brazilian Media, Even More Reports of George Santos’ Lies

Published 2023-01-12 11:00:36 UTC

What the Lesbian Best Friend Trope Leaves Out

Published 2023-01-12 11:00:16 UTC

Activists Sue Global Food Giant Danone Over Use of Plastics

Published 2023-01-12 11:00:03 UTC

House May Vote on Abolishing the IRS—and Income Taxes

Published 2023-01-12 11:00:02 UTC

Republicans Are Now Flipping Out Over Gas Stoves

Published 2023-01-12 16:49:08 UTC

Another Santos Money Mystery: He Struck a Curious Business Deal with a Veteran GOP Operative

Published 2023-01-12 16:37:48 UTC

Merrick Garland Appoints Special Counsel in Biden’s Classified Documents Case

Published 2023-01-12 19:29:37 UTC

England Will Ban Single-Use Cutlery and Plates

Published 2023-01-13 11:00:03 UTC

Amazon Loses Bid: The NLRB Just Upheld the Historic Staten Island Union Win

Published 2023-01-13 14:14:32 UTC

Trump Organization Fined $1.6 Million in Criminal Tax Fraud Case

Published 2023-01-13 16:21:07 UTC

6-Year-Old School Shooter Case Grows Even More Disturbing

Published 2023-01-13 21:24:43 UTC

The Death of a DC Teacher Renews Calls for Defunding LA Police

Published 2023-01-13 22:23:46 UTC

The Delicate Dance of Antarctic Tourism

Published 2023-01-14 11:00:51 UTC

The DNA of Deadly Pathogens Is Easy to Obtain

Published 2023-01-15 11:00:08 UTC

Federal Judge Orders Bannon Ally to End Harassment Campaign Against Creditors

Published 2023-01-15 19:22:29 UTC

House Republicans Want Visitor Logs for Biden’s House—But Not for Mar-a-Lago

Published 2023-01-15 21:49:07 UTC

The GOP Sent 61 Insane Emails Begging Me to Buy a $35 Membership

Published 2023-01-15 22:17:29 UTC

Revealed: Exxon Made “Breathtakingly” Accurate Climate Predictions in 1970’s and 80’s

Published 2023-01-16 11:00:09 UTC

How a Sunken Slave Ship Set Off “a Search for Ourselves”

Published 2023-01-16 11:00:04 UTC

Why Ron DeSantis Won’t—or Shouldn’t—Run for President

Published 2023-01-17 14:59:21 UTC

Former Trump Fixer Meets With Manhattan Prosecutors

Published 2023-01-17 20:39:41 UTC

Sinema and Manchin High-Five Over Refusing to Reform the Filibuster In a Room Full of the Richest People on Earth

Published 2023-01-17 22:18:12 UTC

“An Extreme Amount of Pain”: How a Notorious Jail Failed a Disabled Transgender Inmate

Published 2023-01-18 11:00:50 UTC

Two Years Ago This Brazilian Expert on the Far Right Predicted Their Insurrection

Published 2023-01-18 11:00:48 UTC

Amazon Potentially Fined 0.000013 Percent of 2021 Revenue Over “Serious Worker Injuries” at Warehouses

Published 2023-01-18 21:05:22 UTC

If Trump Returns to Twitter and Facebook, His Own Social Media Company Could Be Screwed

Published 2023-01-18 22:01:19 UTC

NY Fund Manager Linked to Russian Oligarch Invested Big with Santos. Now He Claims He Was Conned.

Published 2023-01-19 01:02:13 UTC

Trump’s Return to Twitter and Facebook Will Fuel More Political Violence

Published 2023-01-19 11:00:40 UTC

Big Brands’ Rainforest Offsets Are Often Worthless, Analysis Finds

Published 2023-01-19 11:00:09 UTC

Alec Baldwin to Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in “Rust” Shooting

Published 2023-01-19 17:50:53 UTC

Florida State Colleges Will No Longer “Fund or Support” Critical Race Theory

Published 2023-01-19 18:31:44 UTC

Trump Confused His Ex-Wife With the Rape Accuser He Called “Not My Type”

Published 2023-01-19 19:40:31 UTC

How Kevin McCarthy Became the Last “Young Gun” Standing

Published 2023-01-20 11:00:34 UTC

Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases Do Not Discriminate, But People Do

Published 2023-01-20 11:00:26 UTC

A Federal Judge Fined Trump and His Lawyer Nearly $1 Million

Published 2023-01-20 20:07:15 UTC

“We Will Continue to March Until Abortion Is Unthinkable.”

Published 2023-01-20 22:56:05 UTC

The US Just Greenlit High-Tech Alternatives to Animal Testing

Published 2023-01-21 11:00:54 UTC

Reports: Ron Klain Is Expected to Leave White House Post

Published 2023-01-21 20:05:14 UTC

Mike Pence Is Courting Controversial Anti-Gay Pastors

Published 2023-01-21 17:59:27 UTC

Treasury Department Study: White People Get 90 Percent of the Benefits of Many Tax Breaks

Published 2023-01-21 22:09:07 UTC

For Someone Like Me, Power Outages Are Not an Option

Published 2023-01-22 11:00:39 UTC

Suspect Is Still at Large in Mass Shooting at LA-Area Ballroom

Published 2023-01-22 17:43:55 UTC

“When We Fight, We Win”: Kamala Harris Strikes Hopeful Note on 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

Published 2023-01-22 19:27:40 UTC

Jeff Zients to Replace Ron Klain as Biden’s Chief of Staff

Published 2023-01-22 22:29:59 UTC

Bowen Yang Gave the George Santos Impression I Didn’t Know I Needed

Published 2023-01-22 21:47:16 UTC

Can $25 Million Preserve an Alaskan Town Sinking Into the Tundra?

Published 2023-01-23 11:00:52 UTC

It’s Official: Ruben Gallego Is Taking on Kyrsten Sinema

Published 2023-01-23 18:05:24 UTC

New York to George Santos: Resign

Published 2023-01-23 19:39:21 UTC

The Abortion Pill’s Secret Money Men

Published 2023-01-24 11:00:23 UTC

The Double-Edged Sword of Deep Sea Mining

Published 2023-01-24 11:00:22 UTC

Here’s What Should’ve Been Nominated for an Oscar and What Should Win

Published 2023-01-24 10:30:49 UTC

Tyre Nichols’ Attorneys: Memphis Police Stop That Led to Death Was a “Nonstop Beating”

Published 2023-01-24 18:39:05 UTC

Senators Can’t Stop Quoting Taylor Swift Lyrics During Ticketmaster Hearing

Published 2023-01-24 23:23:41 UTC

Why Those Documents at Mike Pence’s Place Should Be Bad for Trump

Published 2023-01-25 00:13:15 UTC

It Came From the Basement

Published 2023-01-25 11:01:31 UTC

The Case of a 6-Year-Old School Shooter Raises Gut-Wrenching Questions

Published 2023-01-25 11:00:47 UTC

To New Yorkers’ Delight, Dolphins Return to the Bronx River

Published 2023-01-25 11:00:04 UTC

Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants to Be Trump’s VP

Published 2023-01-25 16:43:01 UTC

George Santos’ New Treasurer Wants You to Know He’s Not George Santos’ Treasurer

Published 2023-01-25 21:45:15 UTC

Trump Is Allowed to Return to Facebook and Instagram

Published 2023-01-25 22:42:31 UTC

Kevin McCarthy Booted Adam Schiff for “Lying.” But What About His Lies?

Published 2023-01-25 23:28:12 UTC

Newport News School Board Votes to Fire Superintendent After School Shooting Involving 6-Year-Old

Published 2023-01-26 03:16:30 UTC

My Vegetarian Dilemma: Tasting Lab-Grown Meat From Live Animals

Published 2023-01-26 11:00:18 UTC

Remembering Victor Navasky, the Unflappable Ringmaster of “The Nation”

Published 2023-01-26 16:17:33 UTC

All Five Officers Charged With Second-Degree Murder in Tyre Nichols’ Death

Published 2023-01-26 18:48:24 UTC

It Shouldn’t Just Be Elaine Chao

Published 2023-01-26 17:46:00 UTC

“Lies Have Short Legs”: Inside the Brazilian WhatsApp Group Exposing George Santos

Published 2023-01-26 21:51:22 UTC

How Just a Fraction of EV Owners Could Stop the US Grid From Failing

Published 2023-01-27 11:00:45 UTC

A Month in America

Published 2023-01-27 17:42:46 UTC

The FDA Just Made It Easier for Gay Men to Donate Blood

Published 2023-01-27 19:36:19 UTC

We Tried to Call the Top Donors To George Santos’ 2020 Campaign. Many Don’t Seem To Exist.

Published 2023-01-28 00:23:45 UTC

Video Shows Police Brutally Beating Tyre Nichols—Then Laughing About It

Published 2023-01-28 03:25:05 UTC

Fossil-Fuel Power Plants May Be on Their Last Legs

Published 2023-01-28 11:00:42 UTC

What to Know About the Risks of Gas Stoves and Appliances

Published 2023-01-28 11:00:24 UTC

Being Gay Shouldn’t Be a Crime, Pope Says

Published 2023-01-28 11:00:22 UTC

At Least Three Killed, Four Injured in Another California Shooting

Published 2023-01-28 20:53:00 UTC

Memphis Police’ First Press Release About Tyre Nichols Was Full of Glaring Omissions

Published 2023-01-28 20:01:21 UTC

Utah Just Became the First State of 2023 to Ban Gender-Affirming Care

Published 2023-01-29 00:03:35 UTC

Why Starbucks Is Inviting Social Workers Into Its Stores

Published 2023-01-29 11:00:44 UTC

Minnesota Becomes First State to Pass Bill Enshrining Abortion Rights Post-Dobbs

Published 2023-01-29 17:54:49 UTC

Memphis Police Department Disbands Unit Whose Members Brutally Killed Tyre Nichols

Published 2023-01-29 17:54:27 UTC

Tyre Nichols’ Family Attorney Calls on Congress to Pass George Floyd Justice in Policing Act

Published 2023-01-29 20:11:01 UTC

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