Abortion Pill Ruling May Face Headwinds at the Supreme Court  —  Even justices hostile to abortion and the administrative state may think twice, legal scholars said, before embracing a Texas judge's decision.  —  WASHINGTON — The conservative legal movement has long had two key goals …

Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention  —  The Democratic convention, to run from Aug. 19-22, 2024, is expected to draw up to 50,000 visitors to Chicago.  Chicago last hosted a convention in 1996.  —  WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee selected Chicago to host …

Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked U.S. document says  —  President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret ‘to avoid problems with the West’

Bud Light suffers bloodbath as longtime and loyal consumers revolt against transgender campaign  —  'In Bud Light's effort to be inclusive, they excluded almost everybody else,' says a St. Louis bar owner  —  Bud Light suffered a bloodbath this past weekend.

Tennessee Speaker admits his family lives hours away from the district he represents  —  Yesterday, Popular Information published an article that posed this question: Where does the Tennessee House Speaker actually live?  —  The issue is that Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) represents District 25 …

Meet the young Democrats waging war on MAGA from behind enemy lines  —  Catalyzing events in U.S. history have a tendency to shape generations of public officials.  In the 1920s, Prohibition and the GOP's depression economics gave rise to the New Deal Democrats.

Tennessee Democrats push to bring second expelled lawmaker back to House  —  Tennessee Democrats on Tuesday will press for the reinstatement of the second of two state representatives who were expelled for leading a rule-breaking gun policy protest on the floor of the statehouse, after the first was reinstated on Monday.

Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia announces Parkinson's disease diagnosis  —  The 54-year-old Democrat makes the announcement on World Parkinson's Day  —  Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) announced Tuesday that she has Parkinson's disease, sharing her diagnosis on a day designated to raise awareness …

Numbed America  —  Another mass shooting.  Cue the doom loop.  —  Yesterday's murder of five Americans in Louisville was the 145th mass shooting here, so far this year.  And it is only mid-April.  Last year, there were 647 mass shootings in our country.  —  It is staggering that we are not staggered by this.

Popular handgun fires without anyone pulling the trigger, victims say … One warm afternoon in May, Dwight Jackson was getting dressed for a visit to his favorite cigar lounge.  He slipped his holstered SIG Sauer P320 pistol onto his belt, put on a button-down shirt and leaned across his bed for his wallet.

Vladimir Kara-Murza's last statement to Russian court: A reckoning will come  —  Vladimir Kara-Murza delivered these remarks on Monday at the closing session of his trial in Moscow.  —  MOSCOW CITY COURT — Members of the court: I was sure, after two decades spent in Russian politics …

Washington's Mideast Pullout Sets Israel and Iran on a Collision Course  —  Emboldened by new alliances and Israel's adventurism, Iran is ready to take higher risks in its shadow war ■ With the situation in the Palestinian territories deteriorating, a spark at the Al-Aqsa Mosque could plunge Israel into a multi-front war

Sovereign Citizens Turn on Each Other Over $200K Fake License Plates  —  A well-known member of the far-right movement who is known for his outlandish legal theories has been given the boot as two prominent branches turn on each other.  —  Members of the far-right sovereign citizen movement …

54 Years Ago, a Supreme Court Justice Was Forced to Quit for Behavior Arguably Less Egregious Than Thomas's  —  There are two distressing aspects to the scandal of Justice Clarence Thomas's years of accepting luxurious vacations and private jet trips from a billionaire, as revealed last week in a damning investigation by ProPublica.

An officer was shot in the head trying to stop a mass shooting at a Louisville bank.  He graduated from the police academy just 10 days ago.  —  A 26-year-old rookie Louisville police officer - who graduated from the police academy just 10 days ago - was hospitalized after being shot in the head …

State Rep. Bryan Slaton retains criminal defense lawyer in possible ethics investigation  —  The complaint came after an incident in which Slaton and the staffer allegedly met up at his Austin apartment last weekend.  A separate staffer told The Texas Tribune that Slaton drank alcohol with an intern under 21 years old.

Judges block Tennessee move to cut Nashville council in half  —  The ruling stymies an effort by state Republican lawmakers to cut the council in half after it blocked the 2024 Republican National Convention from coming to the Music City.  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Democratic-leaning city …

Truck carrying toxic soil from East Palestine overturns in Columbiana County  —  EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (WKBN) - A truck carrying toxic soil from the East Palestine train derailment site overturned just before 1 p.m. Monday in Columbiana County.  —  According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol …

Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to home detention and community service in obstruction case  —  Peters, a prominent 2020 election denier, had faced up to six months in jail for allegedly obstructing government operations.  —  Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters …

The Effort to Suppress the Vote Is Spreading to the Republican Mainstream  —  They've been at it for a long time, and they're picking up steam.  —  It's bad enough when a trio of voter suppression groups led by charlatans gets together at an annual secret conference sponsored in part …

Megan Rapinoe Among Prominent Female Athletes Petitioning Title IX Change Banning Men From Women's Sports … Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., introduced the bill in February.  The bill seeks to clarify Title IX by classifying athletes by biology, rather than identity.

Citing Trump's attacks on ‘hush money’ judge, court keeps E. Jean Carroll rape jury completely anonymous  —  Some weeks after cloaking a jury in complete anonymity to preside over E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit accusing former President Donald Trump of rape, a federal judge refused to relax …

Senate to vote on measure condemning Trump's call to ‘defund’ DOJ, FBI  —  The resolution will force Republicans to choose between standing by the former president and supporting federal law enforcement  —  The Senate plans to consider a resolution next week condemning Donald Trump's call to …

Donald Trump makes post-arrest plea to Melania: ‘I really need you’  —  Expect more Melania.  —  After Melania Trump was seen for the first time since hubby Donald's indictment and arrest, sources tell Page Six she has agreed to be a fixture on his campaign.

Congress Members Announce Hearing, Demand Chief Justice Investigate Clarence Thomas' Trips  —  The lawmakers said the chief justice was duty-bound to conduct a “swift, thorough, independent and transparent investigation” of Thomas' undisclosed travel with billionaire Harlan Crow in order to “safeguard public faith in the judiciary.”

Elon's war on Substack  —  How Twitter is breaking — and its CEO is accelerating its fall  —  Platforms die all sorts of ways, and one of them looks like Ernest Hemingway's famous description of how one of his characters went bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly.  —  Twitter is gradually dying, and has been now for months.