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WASHINGTON — The White House is telling agencies to consider mass layoffs for positions that aren’t protected from a partial government shutdown, which is set to begin Oct. 1 if the two parties can’t come to a swift ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought’s new partial government shutdown guidance implies the executive branch will use a hatchet in some areas and go easy elsewhere — with Democratic ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to effectively decline to pay about $4 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid funds Friday, in a ruling just days before the end of the fiscal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday shrugged off the threat of the first U.S. government shutdown in nearly seven years and moved to cast the blame for any disruption on Democrats.

“These people are crazy, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk says the university will address "valid" concerns of the Trump administration and be "fully compliant" with the law, but will defend the campus against federal civil rights ...Read more

Every episode of "South Park" opens with a disclaimer: "All characters and events in this show — even those based on real people — are entirely fictional. All celebrity voices are impersonated ... poorly. The following...Read more

It isn’t only late-night TV hosts who have the freedom to criticize the powerful. It’s not just the press that depends on the First Amendment.

Yelp restaurant reviews, snarky T-shirts, police reports of spouse abuse, ...Read more

Bomb the United Nations headquarters. Or maybe gas it. Fox News host Jesse Watters had plenty of ideas about how to punish the U.N. after President Trump’s humiliating visit to the organization’s New York headquarters ...Read more

The press gaggle gathered last month by the Israeli government at the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza could see the concrete walls snaking through the sand and debris dunes, the Israeli watch towers and a couple of army ...Read more

Decades ago, college students fought for free speech on college campuses. Today, many college students fight against the exercise of free speech on college campuses.

Worse, the ideas that inspire these students to shut ...Read more

Across the globe, there’s a clear playbook for how authoritarians suppress academic freedom. The firing of an English professor, two university administrators, and the resignation of Texas A&M University President Mark ...Read more

In the “free state of Florida,” your freedom goes as far as the political whims of our governor.

You’re entitled to free speech, unless you’re a company like Disney who disagrees with Gov. Ron DeSantis. Parents ...Read more

For months, the Trump administration has been waging a multi-front war on the working class: ending collective bargaining rights for more than 1 million federal workers, ripping up signed union contracts, muzzling the ...Read more

Now that Donald Trump has finally come around to publicly stating that besieged Ukraine could use military support from the U.S. and the European Union to fully recover all of the territory taken over by Russia, the world ...Read more

Whenever someone said to my father, “Let’s have a conversation,” he would reply, “No, let’s have an argument.” Today, that would sound aggressive, but it wasn’t at all. We need more people today who are ...Read more

With the federal government now the largest shareholder of Intel, an ostensibly private company, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wants you to know that “This is not socialism.” But if public ownership of the means of...Read more

A restaurant take-out bag with $50,000 inside. A former (and future) government official. Allegations of a Department of Justice cover-up. It sounds like a Matt Damon movie, but it’s just another day in 2025.

The ...Read more

President Donald Trump insists this isn’t his war — that it belongs to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former President Joe Biden. “This is not my war; it is theirs,” he has said, all from a man who ...Read more

President Donald Trump insists this isn’t his war — that it belongs to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former President Joe Biden. “This is not my war; it is theirs,” he has said, all from a man who ...Read more

A NOTE FROM 40 YEARS IN JOURNALISM:

If a city councilor in the city where you work as a reporter proposes a city budget that guarantees the city will go bankrupt in five years, and you write a long story explaining the ...Read more