EXCLUSIVE Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch  —  The two Southern tech entrepreneurs had the two qualities that Donald Trump's Truth Social startup needed: tech-industry expertise and a politically conservative worldview aligned with the former president …

Late flight snags Jackson's committee vote  —  A Democratic senator's flight snafu is delaying a committee vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination.  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) took the panel into a break as they wait for Sen. Alex Padilla …

US seizes yacht owned by oligarch with close ties to Putin  —  PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) — The U.S. government seized a mega yacht in Spain owned by an oligarch with close ties to the Russian president on Monday, the first in the government's sanctions enforcement initiative to …

The Bucha Atrocities and the Kremlin Apologists  —  Commentators suffering from Ukraine Derangement Syndrome are distorting and distracting from the horrible facts.  —  BUCHA, UKRAINE - APRIL 4: CIVILIANS' BODIES, WHICH WERE FOUND DEAD IN THE UKRAINIAN TOWN OF BUCHA, WERE GATHERED TO BE BURIED ON MONDAY …

Secret Service paying over $30K per month for Malibu mansion to protect Hunter Biden  —  The luxury rental property has “gorgeous ocean views,” according to its listing.  —  Hunter Biden is apparently spending his father's presidency living in luxury in Malibu — and so is his taxpayer-funded security detail.

Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims.  —  An analysis of satellite images by The New York Times rebuts claims by Russia that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, occurred after its soldiers had left the town.

How Amazon Workers Beat The Union Busters At Their Own Game  —  Amazon spent millions on anti-union consultants last year.  One worker explains how he and his friends discredited and flustered them to win a historic election.  —  Faced with union organizing efforts in Alabama and New York City last year …

‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it's fossil fuels or our future  —  Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world's top scientists warned on Monday.

Black Lives Matter Secretly Bought a $6 Million House  —  Allies and critics alike have questioned where the organization's money has gone.  —  On a sunny day late last spring, three leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement — Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Melina Abdullah …

Capitol attack panel scores two major wins as it inches closer to Trump's inner circle  —  House select committee seizes momentum as it embarks on final push to conclude evidence-gathering phase of inquiry  —  The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is moving …

Elon Musk Takes 9.2% Stake in Twitter After Hinting at Shake-Up  —  Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc. to become the platform's biggest shareholder, a week after hinting he might shake up the social media industry.  —  Twitter shares surged about 26% in premarket trading …

The Ivermectin Guys' Whole Thing Has Really Fallen Apart  —  Meanwhile, they're still pretending the drug is viable as a treatment for COVID.  —  Anna Merlan  —  In the summer of 2021, a group of the most vociferous people online put all their energies behind the unproven thesis that ivermectin …

Orban's victory sends a warning to the west  —  The Hungarian leader has long walked a tightrope between the EU and fellow strongmen — but it is getting harder to keep up his balancing act  —  Viktor Orban's election victory in Hungary will be greeted with delight in Moscow …

What I Learned When Trump Tried to Correct the Record  —  As an academic historian, I never expected to find myself in a videoconference with Donald Trump.  But one afternoon last summer—a day after C-SPAN released a poll of historians who ranked him just above Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson …

DeSantis's Threats to Disney Is What Post-Trump Authoritarianism Looks Like … Florida governor Ron DeSantis has pitched himself to the Republican elite as the candidate of “competent Trumpism” — a form of authoritarian populism for conservatives who worried that Donald Trump was squandering his power, not abusing it.

DirecTV to Drop One America News on Tuesday Despite Pressure  —  DirecTV plans to drop One America News Network on Tuesday, ignoring pressure to reverse course from the conservative cable outlet and its supporters.  —  The satellite TV giant has been notifying customers that it will no longer carry OAN …

EXCLUSIVE U.S. Vice President Harris' deputy chief of staff to depart  —  U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's deputy chief of staff Michael Fuchs is leaving the administration, the latest top aide from her office to announce a departure, according to an internal staff memo seen by Reuters.

Two-thirds of Russian troops near Kyiv are retreating, likely to be redeployed  —  Roughly two-thirds of the Russian troops that had been amassed around Ukraine's capital of Kyiv have since left, a senior U.S. defense official told reporters on Monday, adding that the troops will likely be redeployed to another part of the country.

What should Russia do with Ukraine?  [Translation of a propaganda article by a Russian publication] … This is the article that was published by the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti (Russian: РИА Новос ти).

Fact check: In series of false claims, Republican Rep. Lisa McClain says Trump caught Osama bin Laden  —  Reporters keep exposing evidence of Trump's ‘big lie’ 01:46  —  Washington (CNN)Michigan Rep. Lisa McClain, a freshman Republican member of Congress, made a series of false claims …