The Supreme Court delivers a sigh of relief — and an outrageous dissent  —  Justice Clarence Thomas has gotten the attention of late due to questionable ethics.  But it's high time Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. received the scrutiny he deserves.  Alito's dissent in the mifepristone case …

A California journalist documents the far-right takeover of her town: 'We're a test case'  —  Doni Chamberlain's been a journalist in Shasta county for nearly 30 years.  Now she's targeted by the extremists who are looking to reshape the region  —  The fight for democracy is supported by

Afghanistan has become a terrorism staging ground again, leak reveals  —  Less than two years after President Biden withdrew U.S. personnel from Afghanistan, the country has become a significant coordination site for the Islamic State as the terrorist group plans attacks across Europe and Asia …

In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself  —  Ottawa County offers a glimpse of what happens when one of the building blocks of American democracy is consumed by ideological battles  —  WEST OLIVE, Mich. — The eight new members of the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners …

DeSantis Faces Republican Scrutiny on Issues While Trump Skates By  —  Republican voters seem to be grading Donald Trump on a curve by in his third presidential campaign, while Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida faces a more traditional form of scrutiny.  —  When former President Donald J. Trump …

Chris Christie Doesn't Want to Hear the Name Trump  —  “How many different ways are you gonna ask the same fucking question, Mark?”  Chris Christie asked me.  We were seated in the dining room of the Hay-Adams hotel.  It's a nice hotel, five stars.  Genteel.

Bombshell revelation of Trump election texts is ‘more damning’ than his Georgia phone call: legal analyst  —  Reacting to a CNN report that Trump operatives were making plans to use breached voting data to not only undercut the 2020 presidential election results but also to give the GOP control of the Senate …

Florida couple delivering Instacart groceries shot at after driving to wrong address  —  (WFLA) — A couple in Broward County said someone shot at them after they ended up at the wrong address while delivering groceries for Instacart.  —  Waldes Thomas told NBC affiliate WTVJ that he was delivering …

Biden is running out of time to avoid calamitous debt ceiling outcomes  —  The GOP's willingness to court economic disaster without major spending cuts leaves White House aides in a bind  —  President Biden is running out of time and options to avert an unprecedented default on the federal debt …

Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda.  That's over now  —  Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier this month to denigrate Ukraine in a post using language reminiscent of genocidal regimes.  —  And Twitter didn't stop him.

Many States Are Trying to Restrict Gender Treatments for Adults, Too  —  Missouri has imposed sweeping rules to limit health care for trans adults.  Other states have banned Medicaid coverage or introduced bills outlawing care for young adults.  —  Missouri this month became the first state …

Chief Justice John Roberts punts on request to testify about Supreme Court ethics  —  Chief Justice John Roberts has declined to directly respond to a congressional request for his testimony at a Supreme Court ethics hearing next month about Justice Clarence Thomas' alleged ethical lapses.

It Is a Delusion to Think Having a Gun in the Home Makes Us Safer  —  In most of the world, going to the wrong house is not a deadly risk.  —  But in the United States it is, because we're awash in an estimated 450 million guns and suffer from a mass delusion that a gun in the home makes us safer.

E.P.A. to Propose First Controls on Greenhouse Gases From Power Plants  —  If the regulation is implemented, it will be the first time the federal government has limited carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases.

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 …

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 …

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 …

AP PHOTOS: Glimpses of a changing Earth, as seen from above  —  Charred, drained or swamped, built up, dug out or taken apart, blue or green or turned to dust: this is the Earth as seen from above.  —  As the world commemorates Earth Day on Saturday, the footprints of human activity are visible across the planet's surface.

NAACP sues after Mississippi expands control over law enforcement in Jackson  —  Two new state bills that Gov. Tate Reeves signed into on Friday are discriminatory because they focus only on Jackson, a majority-Black city, the NAACP said.  —  The NAACP sued Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves …

The GOP's new electability problem: North Carolina  —  Mark Robinson, North Carolina's highly controversial Republican lieutenant governor, is the latest test of firebrand politics in the GOP.  —  Republicans are on the verge of wiping out what remains of Democrats' political power in North Carolina.

Republican governor to call special session in Tennessee to discuss gun reform  —  Gov. Bill Lee proposed keeping guns away from those deemed a risk to others.  —  LIVE  —  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee will call a special legislative session to address gun reform nearly a month after a mass shooting …