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Taylor Swift, twelve-time Grammy Award winner, Spotify’s most streamed artist in 2023, and TIME Person of the Year, can add another line to her resume: Democratic Party psy-op. At least according to Fox News.

The Anti-Defamation League has made a startling confession: It is now including pro-Palestine marches in its count of antisemitic incidents in the United States.

The House tried to hold a hearing Wednesday on whether to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress, but things went off the rails so quickly that not much actually got done.

A Democratic representative skewered Republicans on Wednesday for seeking to penalize Hunter Biden for not responding to a congressional subpoena, when many members of the GOP have done much worse.

Republican Representative Nancy Mace had a bit of a freak-out on Wednesday when she realized Hunter Biden had shown up to a congressional hearing about him.

Donald Trump and his lawyers are presenting increasingly unhinged defenses of the former president’s claim that he should be immune from criminal proceedings, as his legal team appears to scramble to keep up the argument.

Bill Ackman, the hedge-fund billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife, former MIT professor Neri Oxman, has a plagiarism problem arguably worse than Gay’s—because in addition to borrowings similar to those that sank Gay, Oxman’s dissertation cribbed from Wikipedia, a source professors typically shoo undergraduates away from. Ackman is not taking this news well.

2023 was by far the hottest year on record—and might be one of the coolest we’ll experience for the rest of our lives. Along similar lines, U.S. agencies are perhaps as empowered as they ever will be to go after corporate polluters in 2024. The Supreme Court could soon delight right-wingers and their C-suite funders by overturning the so-called Chevron doctrine, which holds that courts defer to agency expertise in interpreting federal statutes. If they take the White House, Republicans promise... Читать дальше...

Two years after the expiration of the expanded child tax credit, a pandemic-era policy that temporarily but dramatically lowered child poverty rates, federal lawmakers are close to a bipartisan deal that may reinstate some version of the credit.

A Florida Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would essentially ban abortions altogether, going even further than the already draconian restrictions on the procedure in the Sunshine State.