Supreme Court allows abortion pill to stay on the market for now  —  The Justice Department and Danco Laboratories, which makes the brand version of mifepristone, Mifeprex, had asked the court to step in immediately.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will allow the most commonly used abortion pill …

Airman Shared Sensitive Intelligence More Widely and for Longer Than Previously Known  —  A Discord user matching the profile of Jack Teixeira distributed intelligence to a larger chat group, days after the beginning of the Ukraine war.  —  The Air National Guardsman accused …

Donald Trump Tops Ron DeSantis in Test of GOP Presidential Field, WSJ Poll Finds  —  No candidate beyond the two leaders draws substantial support in the still-developing primary race  —  WASHINGTON—Donald Trump has gained command of the GOP presidential-nomination race over Ron DeSantis …

Dril and other Twitter power users begin campaign to ‘Block the Blue’ paid checkmarks  —  After Elon Musk removed legacy verified users' checkmarks, Twitter's biggest users are blocking everyone who pays.  —  On Thursday, April 20, Elon Musk made a rare move: He delivered on a promise.

Details about multimillion-dollar stock holding concealed in abortion pill judge's financial disclosures  —  The federal judge who issued a nationwide ruling blocking the approval of a common abortion medication redacted key information on his legally mandated financial disclosures …

Exclusive: Text messages reveal Trump operatives considered using breached voting data to decertify Georgia's Senate runoff in 2021  —  In mid-January 2021, two men hired by former President Donald Trump's legal team discussed over text message what to do with data obtained from a breached voting machine …

SpaceX didn't want to blow up its launchpad.  It may have done just that.  —  Videos show a war-like barrage of shrapnel blasting away from the launch site into nearby beaches, wetlands and at least one car  —  Big rockets emit tremendous amounts of energy — and none more than SpaceX's Starship …

Republicans end the week short on votes for their debt ceiling plan  —  Kevin McCarthy has his work cut out for him next week.  —  As of Friday afternoon, the House speaker still hadn't wrapped up enough votes to pass Republicans' party-line debt-ceiling bill, according to sources keeping tabs on the whip count.

Dominion's C.E.O.: We Settled the Lawsuit Against Fox News, but We're Not Done Yet  —  Vindication.  Shame.  Triumph.  Tragedy.  Surrender.  These are a few of the characterizations I've heard following our recent settlement with Fox News in our historic defamation case against the network …

Jim Jordan Just Got Busted With Evidence Of His Hunter Biden Lies  —  Jim Jordan and House Judiciary Republicans got caught editing witness interviews to smear the Sec. of State and push their Hunter Biden laptop scandal.  —  Here is what Rep. Jordan's House Judiciary Republicans tweeted.

Bud Light's marketing leadership undergoes shakeup after Dylan Mulvaney controversy  —  Alissa Heinerscheid, who has led the brand since June, takes leave of absence and is replaced by Budweiser global marketing VP Todd Allen  —  Anheuser-Busch InBev has changed marketing leadership …

Two Men Sentenced for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Plot to Attack Power Grids in the United States  —  Domestic Terrorism Plot was in Furtherance of White Supremacy  —  Two men were sentenced in federal court today to crimes related to a scheme to attack power grids in the United States in furtherance white supremacy.

Chicago police investigating officers' response to mob attack in Loop after witness says police declined to help  —  Large groups of youths gather in downtown Chicago, April 15, 2023.  Two teens were shot in the area during the evening.  (Network Video Productions)

Birth Control Is Next  —  At first glance, what's happening right now in Iowa looks like a rosy vision for the future of reproductive rights.  —  The Republican-controlled state Senate recently passed a bill that would increase access to certain types of contraception by allowing pharmacists …

Ex-Manhattan prosecutor set to testify before GOP-led House Judiciary Committee in May  —  The Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee have settled a court dispute where the prosecutor's office tried to block congressional testimony …

Montana transgender lawmaker silenced: What to know  —  The latest high-profile example of state legislative leadership deciding who can be heard during statehouse debates is playing out in Montana where a transgender lawmaker was silenced by Republican leaders for a second day Friday.

Department of Defense riddled with ‘Three Percenters and Boogaloo guys’: report  —  The arrest of a young Air Force National Guardsman accused of sharing government secrets on a social media platform is setting off alarms that the military and Department of Defense is rife with young men …

Abbott Aims to Pardon Racist Murderer Who Sent Explicit Texts to Apparent Minor  —  After an Austin jury unanimously convicted Sergeant Daniel Perry of murder, it took Governor Greg Abbott less than one full day to call for his pardon.  —  Legal experts and lawmakers have described …

Retired Navy Officer Takes on Florida's Book-Ban ‘Fascism’  —  “I didn't sacrifice 21 years of my life to stand idly by while religious fanatics and other fanatics try to impose fascism on my country.”  —  A retired Navy officer who was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt …

Springfield man charged with demanding meat at gunpoint  —  REPUBLIC, Mo. — On April 18, Republic Police Department officers were called to a Price Cutter to respond to a call about a robbery in which a man held an employee at gunpoint so that he would be served meat.

Rightwing extremists defeated by Democrats in US school board elections  —  Republican-backed culture warrior candidates fare poorly in Illinois and Wisconsin, offering hope to the left  —  Scores of rightwing extremists were defeated in school board elections in April …

America's Tragedy Is Its Culture of Fear—Armed With Millions of Guns  —  “Patriotic” culture warriors are terrified of drag queens, “illegals,” and extremely rare vaccine injuries.  But tens of thousands of annual gun deaths—meh. … I've long avoided writing about anything related to guns …

Florida students say they're walking out and teaching themselves banned history lessons to protest censorship and anti-LGBTQ laws in education  —  Some Florida students are opting to skip class for part of Friday, choosing to learn a banned history lesson instead.Hundreds of high school …

Chief Justice John Roberts' Mockery of Stalking Victims Points to a Deeper Problem  —  The justices take their own safety very, very seriously.  Everybody else's?  Not so much.  —  Stalking is so closely correlated with lethal violence that experts refer to it as “slow motion homicide” …

Texas Man Indicted on Federal Charges for Alleged Death Threats to U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California  —  LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today indicted a Houston man on federal charges for allegedly making …

18-Year-Old Transgender Athlete Exposes Himself to Freshman Girls in Locker Room  —  The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) wants answers from Sun Prairie Area School District (SPASD) after an 18-year-old transgender athlete exposed himself to four 14-year-old girls in the shower area …

Republicans follow their new leader, Marjorie Taylor Greene  —  This is the price America pays for Kevin McCarthy's ambition.  —  To understand the consequences of the many concessions the House speaker made to get his job, look at what has happened to the House Committee on Homeland Security.