Not Quite Midnight at the Supreme Court  —  I was happily knitting away on my flight home from New York this evening, certain that the Supreme Court would go down to the wire on the Mifepristone case.  The deadline Justice Alito had imposed for the Court to reach a decision was 11:59 p.m. Friday night.

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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.

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.

Twitter removes labels from state-controlled media, helping propaganda  —  The move comes the same week that Russia and China were revealed to be operating armies of fake profiles  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has removed labels designating global media accounts as government-controlled or funded …

Missouri trans ‘snitch form’ down after people spammed it with the ‘Bee Movie’ script  —  A Missouri government tip site for submitting complaints and concerns about gender-affirming care is down after people flooded it with fanfiction, rambling anecdotes and the “Bee Movie” script.

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 …

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 …

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.

House Republicans, Manhattan DA end fight over Trump inquiry  —  Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed Friday to let Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee question an ex-prosecutor about the criminal case against former President Donald Trump.

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 …

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 …

A Victory for Free Speech: Greenpeace USA Defeats $100 Million Lawsuit  —  Today's decision is a huge win for free speech, but more must be done to ensure that corporations can't abuse the legal system.  Not everyone can afford to litigate a case for seven years.  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE