Kremlin panics as Russian Urals crude oil price nears crucial $50 mark Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov attributed the price decline to "the US decision to introduce tariffs for most countries in the world."

⚡️ Kremlin panics as Russian Urals crude oil price nears crucial $50 mark.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov attributed the price decline to "the US decision to introduce tariffs for most countries in the world."

China lashes out at JD Vance for calling Chinese people ‘peasants’ | CNN China on Tuesday slammed US Vice President JD Vance for referring to the Chinese people as “peasants” in an interview that has drawn widespread ire and ridicule on China’s internet – and comparisons w...

China slammed US Vice President JD Vance for referring to the Chinese people as “peasants” in an interview that has drawn widespread ire and ridicule on China’s internet – and comparisons with Vance’s own self-proclaimed “hillbilly” background

Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter.

Exclusive: Trump administration officials have told some US government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda reut.rs/4i5ORZq

While fallen soldiers returned home, Trump hit the golf course and veterans took notice.

Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.

#ICYMI: Speaker Mike Johnson lives in a $3.7 million D.C. townhouse with evangelical pastor Steve Berger, who has attacked the separation of church and state as “a delusional lie."

Berger's project: ministering to members of Congress so that what “they learn is then translated into policy.”

Maine Sues U.S.D.A. Over Title IX Funding for School Lunches The federal lawsuit is the latest escalation of Gov. Janet Mills’s standoff with the Trump administration over the issue of transgender athletes.

The State of Maine sued the Agriculture Department on Monday, arguing that the agency violated the law when it froze funding to Maine last week and that the freeze threatened school meal programs.

Health secretary RFK Jr. endorses the MMR vaccine — stoking fury among his supporters Prominent anti-vaccine activists lined up on social media to denounce the move.

Prominent anti-vaccine activists lined up on social media to denounce the move. By @gbrumfiel.bsky.social

After a backlash, National Park Service restores old Underground Railroad webpage that prominently features Harriet Tubman | CNN The National Park Service seems to have returned an image of and quote from Harriet Tubman to a webpage about the Underground Railroad, following backlash after her presence on the page was dramatical...

JUST IN: After criticism, the National Park Service has restored an old Underground Railroad webpage that prominently features Harriet Tubman.

NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony.

Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.

RFK Jr stayed silent on vaccine, says father of child who died from measles

A Texas man who buried his eight-year-old daughter on Sunday after the unvaccinated child died with measles says Robert F Kennedy Jr “never said anything” about the vaccine against the illness or its proven efficacy while visiting the girl’s family and community for her funeral.

US to relocate troops, equipment from key Ukraine aid hub in Poland "The important work of facilitating military aid to Ukraine via Jasionka will continue under Polish and NATO leadership, supported by a streamlined U.S. military footprint," the statement reads.

⚡️ US to relocate troops, equipment from key Ukraine aid hub in Poland.

The U.S. Army Europe and Africa Command announced on April 8 that American personnel and equipment will be relocated from Poland's Jasionka Airport, a key logistics hub for delivering military aid to Ukraine.

Justice Dept. says it will pull back on litigating cryptocurrency fraud In a memo sent to the Justice Department on Monday night, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department will largely stop bringing cases that violate the Bank Secrecy Act or contain unregis...

The Justice Department has directed prosecutors to stop pursuing litigation against people committing fraud with digital currency, the latest example of the Trump administration easing up on white-collar crime enforcement.

Ukrainian troops advance into Russia’s Belgorod, Zelenskyy confirms The Ukrainian president publicly stated for the first time that Ukrainian troops have been active in Belgorod, making it the second incursion into Russia’s border regions since August 2024.

The Ukrainian president publicly stated for the first time that Ukrainian troops have been active in Belgorod, making it the second incursion into Russia’s border regions since August 2024.

I knew some of the paramedics killed in Gaza. As humanitarian workers, we are drowning in grief | Amy Neilson I write to bear witness to the incredible nature of these men – to their kindness, their gentleness and their goodness

www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

We should have nothing to do with the pariah state that is Israel.
This atrocious murder is another in the long list of atrocities committed by Israel.
Why hasn’t Netanyahu been arrested yet?
( I respect the Israelis who want peace and are appalled by this)

Was fascinating to watch Trump's meandering diatribe yesterday, with war-criminal Netanyahu by his side, suggesting the European Union 🇪🇺 was formed with the *sole intent* to destroy the United States 🇺🇸 economically.

Quite a statement from the EU's #1 trading partner.

😳🚫🤡

Lessons from Chappell Roan's boundary setting for standing against harassment There is a relevant lesson for all of us in Chappell Roan’s approach to setting boundaries with her ‘fans’

✨ "Women, whether or not they are queer or famous (or neither), still have to contend with the idea that they owe their time to others and that boundaries are negotiable."

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/lessons-from-chappell-roans-boundary-setting-for-standing-against-harrasement/

Ukrainian forces shoot down Russia’s most expensive drone worth over US$300,000 – video The Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed a Merlin-VR, the most expensive Russian reconnaissance UAV, worth more than US$300,000, on the Lyman front.

👏 Ukrainian forces shoot down Russia's most expensive drone worth over US$300,000 – video

Rural Missourians standing up today to protest the cuts to our social services and the cuts to the USDA, DOE and all the other terrible cuts that hurt rural communities.

We are protesting in Mountain Grove Missouri. Rains and floods didn't stop us!

When elected officials see mass protests and then immediately adjust their behavior in response, that is a good thing. That's how this should work!

Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.

Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador does not need to be back in U.S. tonight, Supreme Court rules Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a legal resident protected from deportation by a 2019 court order who has lived in the U.S. since 2011, was deported to a notorious Salvadorian prison on March 15.

BREAKING: Supreme Court temporarily pauses a judge's order that the Trump administration must bring back the man accidentally deported to an El Salvador jail by midnight.

23andMe is bankrupt, and a judge has ruled it can sell its consumer data, which includes information about health, habits and personal traits.

A lawyer and bioethicist explains the concerns and why they’re deleting their own 23andMe data buff.ly/hv51ZVq

Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker WASHINGTON—As the Trump administration continues to alter the version of American history that appears in government publications, sources confirmed Monday that a page on the National Parks website ha...

Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker

Chief Justice Pauses Order to Return Wrongfully Deported Man The US chief justice temporarily paused an order requiring President Donald Trump’s administration to bring back a Maryland man who immigration officials conceded was wrongly deported to a notorious p...

US Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily paused an order requiring the Trump administration to bring back a Maryland man who immigration officials conceded was wrongly deported to a notorious prison in his native El Salvador

The Lawless Border Wall The application of waivers and the interpretation of their scope has repeatedly expanded, such that border walls are now privileged over all potential legal constraints short of the U.S. Constitution.

According to a new book edited by Andréanne Bissonnette and Élisabeth Vallet, while “restoring the rule of law” to the U.S.-Mexico border has been a repeated talking point for successive administrations, it is the border walls that they have built, not the border itself, that are lawless.

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.

Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.

(Published 2022)

The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

At least 19 states, all of whom with Democratic attorneys general, presented “undisputed evidence” they were not receiving FEMA funds already appropriated by Congress.

Inside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs A DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems, among other proposals.

WIRED has new info on the specific DOGE operatives at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the ways they’re trying to infiltrate and change the agency—including trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems.

Exclusive: House Democrats probe Elon Musk's conflicts of interest with NASA SpaceX is one of NASA's largest private sector contractors.

EXCLUSIVE: House Democrats launch an investigation into potential conflicts of interest between NASA and Elon Musk

Scoop: Schatz expands holds to more than 300 Trump nominees He's intensifying his protest of what he calls the White House's "lawlessness."

SCOOP: Sen. Brian Schatz is expanding his holds on Trump's nominees to include an additional 50 names — along with a batch of bipartisan foreign affairs bills.