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New Mexico lawmakers issue first subpoenas in Epstein investigation
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A bipartisan special committee of New Mexico lawmakers, which was created to probe convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch near Santa Fe, announced Monday that it will send out its first round of subpoenas. The New Mexico Truth Commission is slated to send subpoenas to 14 entities, including agencies that have investigated Epstein in the…
Alabama’s new congressional maps do the one thing the Supreme Court still forbids
Justice Clarence Thomas, face-palming. | Chip Somodevilla/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Allen v. Milligan, an Alabama redistricting case that is now before the Supreme Court for the third time, is a face-palm, wrapped in a head-desk, wrapped in some of the most incompetent legislative draftsmanship that has ever been presented to the justices. If Alabama Republicans have any sense, they will fire all of their lawyers. About a month ago, the Supreme Court decided Louisiana v. Callais, gutting the federal Voting Rights Act’s safeguards against legislative maps that lock voters of color out of power in the process. Callais effectively repealed a 1982 amendment to the VRA, which prohibited many state laws that have a negative impact of nonwhite voters, even if those laws were not drawn with racist intent. After Callais, a plaintiff challenging a state’s legislative maps on racial grounds may only prevail “when the circumstances give rise to a strong inference that intentional discrimination
Axelrod on reported Trump outburst at Netanyahu: ‘His analysis is not wrong’
Democratic strategist David Axelrod said Monday night that President Trump’s reported outburst at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a phone call earlier in the day was justified. Trump reportedly slammed Netanyahu over the prime minister’s plan to attack Hezbollah targets in southern Beirut, an escalation of the war in Lebanon that prompted Iran to…
Prediction markets are out of control — Congress must act to ban insider trades now
Elected officials and their employees should be unequivocally clear, through binding legislation, that prediction markets cannot continue as they are and have no place in politics.
Thune on Pulte pick: ‘We don’t need a weaponized’ director of national intelligence
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters “we don’t need a weaponized” director of national intelligence (DNI) when asked about President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte, the homebuilder and director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), to serve as acting head of the nation’s intelligence services. Thune pointed out that Pulte, who has…
Congress must stop writing blank checks for Guantanamo’s cruelty
Every dollar Congress appropriates for Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda sets in motion systems that will be much harder to dismantle in the future.
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SEC defends Musk Twitter settlement, saying it reflected ‘compromises’
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday defended its decision to settle with billionaire Elon Musk over the delayed disclosure of his stake in Twitter, now known as X, after the judge raised questions about the settlement. The SEC said in May that it had reached an agreement with Musk to pay a $1.5…
Israel Has a Growing Anti-Christian Problem
A recent attack in Jerusalem highlights a worrying trend intensified by wartime nationalism.
Ukraine changed its tactics, and now Putin is slowly losing
The events of recent days in Ukraine and Russia have radically changed the picture of the war as well as attitudes toward the Russian aggressor. There was recently a telling sign of the shift: Russia, for the first time in almost 20 years, held its festive annual parade on Red Square without any tanks or…
Will Putin Lose Transnistria, Too?
The list of Russian losses on the global geopolitical front continues to grow.
The World’s Mineral Powers Seize Their Moment
Resource-rich countries haven’t always benefited from extraction. Can this time be different?
There Are Only Four Great Powers
An era of great-power competition has started—but not all would-be competitors qualify.