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Minnesota lawmaker shooting suspect Vance Luther Boelter is in custody, but bad-faith responses by figures like Elon Musk and ...

Social media platforms, collaborative online tools, and encrypted messaging are all helping to power a massive, decentralized ...

The White House's rescissions proposal would claw back billions in funding to PBS, NPR and foreign aid. Key Senate Republicans are still skeptical.

California authorities say the sweeping DOGE staffing cuts at the U.S. Forest Service will mean fewer prescribed burns leading into this year's wildfire season. Here's why that scares them.

A former intelligence officer's 1980 reflections on selecting Cold War targets are worth revisiting in the wake of the second Trump administration, but perhaps not for the reasons you might imagine.

The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and ...

Even though the billionaire is no longer leading the Department of Government Efficiency effort, many key staffers — and DOGE ...

The Los Angeles Press Club says law enforcement officers have violated press freedoms of reporters covering anti-ICE protests ...

Trump has also eroded trust in and goodwill toward the United States—and he has done so on live television. The most ...

Witness a brutal ¼ mile (Viertelmeile) drag race between two American supercar icons: the Dodge Viper SRT10 and the Chevrolet ...

Possibly just because Friday's slump was pretty violent thanks to the Middle East crisis and a weak consumer confidence ...