Defense lawyers for the man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last week say he’s being deprived of his dignity and res

PORTLAND, Maine — Before Graham Platner dove into the meat of his speech at the Maine Democratic Party Convention Saturday night, where he said it is “very odd but deeply humbling” to be the “presumpt

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Politics / Republicans Can’t Contain Their Glee Over the Death of the VRA In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores the GOP’s glee over the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights decision.

As Congress nears a vote this week on extending the deep state’s ability to spy on Americans, emails obtained by the Lever show how an influential Democratic member of Congress is whipping votes behin

Former Border Patrol official Greg Bovino can’t keep away from the limelight. After the operation he oversaw in Minneapolis — one of several he conducted with a position out of the chain of command —

Pete Hegseth has become emboldened to do as he pleases within the Pentagon as his willingness to do President Donald Trump’s bidding has apparently shielded him from pushback, insiders say. The defen

Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Dozens of Democrats in the Republican-controlled U.

The Brief Gov. JB Pritzker said in an interview with Politico that he believes President Donald Trump "has dementia." It's the latest jab between the two billionaire politicians since Trump returned t

President Donald Trump has posted an AI image of himself shirtless alongside a scantily clad woman and several members of his Cabinet—part of yet another late-night Truth Social meltdown. The photo,

Danco Laboratories, one of the makers of the abortion pill mifepristone, asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to block a lower court ruling that imposed a nationwide requirement for the medication to b

LOADING ERROR LOADING CBS’s chief Washington correspondent questioned acting Attorney General Todd Blanche over the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey when a MAGA influencer hadn’t been prosec

Federal prosecutors in New Jersey have charged four residents with illegally casting votes in an election Four New Jersey residents charged with illegally voting and lying on citizenship forms NEWAR

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Spirit: The wind-down follows the Company’s extensive and comprehensive efforts to restructure the business and pursue transactions to strengthen Spirit’s financial position and create a sustainable

Kid Rock’s bizarre, multi-part saga with U.S. Army helicopters took another turn on Friday. The singer premiered a promo video at the first date on his new concert tour for the America 250 celebration

What are the indicators of a presumed democracy either faltering or fortifying itself against the buffeting or destructive forces of dictatorial autocracy, plutocracy, and oligarchy? Certainly, the c

‘Couldn’t agree more’: Kalshi board member addresses demands to regulate prediction markets 11:05 ‘You are no longer in the democracy that was promised’: South redistricts ahead of midterms 12:11 ‘L

On Valentines Day in 1962, millions of Americans tuned in for a never before televised event: a tour of the White House. A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy would go on to be viewed b

President Donald Trump’s approval rating fell to its lowest level of his second term across three national polls released within days of each other this week. These late-April surveys—from Leger, Big

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Organisers of pro-Palestine marches have said Keir Starmer’s threat to ban some demonstrations opposing Israel’s actions in the Middle East will “strike at the root of free assembly and free speech” i

Reform UK’s leading figures have repeatedly promoted a new pothole-fixing machine by the construction company JCB, while the party received £200,000 from the British digger maker, the Guardian can rev

A generation of Black Americans across the South fought in courtrooms and in the streets during the Civil Rights Movement to dismantle barriers to voting By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press , JACK BR

After almost three decades, thousands of hours of broadcasts and countless conspiracy theories, the lights went off at Infowars last night. “And all glory goes to Jesus Christ and our heavenly father

Forty-five year old social justice activist named Guido Reichstadter on Saturday morning was still perched atop the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in Washington, DC after first scaling the structu

Rights advocates swiftly sounded the alarm on Friday after the infamously far-right US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit temporarily blocked a federal rule allowing mifepristone to be dispensed by

Kemi Badenoch has apologised after footage from Bloody Sunday was used in social media posts criticising a bill on legacy issues in Northern Ireland. The Conservative leader said on Saturday that she

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Spirit Airlines announced early Saturday it is ceasing operations effective immediately after a bailout from President Donald Trump failed to materialize. "It is with great disappointment that on May

U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks during a campaign event with the Maine AFL-CIO, on May 1, 2026, in Portland, Maine. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Getty Images Eoin Higgins is the author of “Owned:

President Donald Trump said Friday during remarks in Florida that the United States would take over Cuba “almost immediately,” suggesting an aircraft carrier could be positioned offshore after the con

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LOADING ERROR LOADING Donald Trump made a compelling case on Friday as to why people running for president or vice president should be required to take a cognitive exam similar to the ones he’s previo

When the Bernie Sanders-aligned Our Revolution endorsed Tom Steyer in the unwieldy California governor’s race, the irony of a progressive group founded on an anti-billionaire ethos backing a multibill

Scott Jennings, CNN’s most prominent pro-Trump commentator, swore at a fellow panelist on live television on Thursday night after being repeatedly pressed to name a single political concession the US