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[ad_1] Ahead of the midterms, a conservative firm is warning House Republicans to smear liberals as communists instead of socialists. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The Senate unanimously approved a nonbinding resolution declaring that former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried should “under no circumstances” receive a presidential pardon or commutation. The Senate passed a resolution on Wednesday stating that Sam Bankman-Fried should “under no circumstances” receive executive clemency, a rebuke of the FTX founder’s request that President Donald Trump commute or pardon his sentence. The measure, S. Res. 772, cleared by unanimous consent, a procedure that adopts a resolution when no senator objects. It expresses the sense of the Senate that Bankman-Fried should receive neither a pardon nor a commutation, and it affirms the chamber’s commitment to…

[ad_1] Fact-checking saw a rapid expansion in the mid 2010s when major social media platforms, especially Meta, started funding these activities. Today, however, fact checkers stand at a critical juncture. The early 2020s brought them three interrelated yet distinct crises: financial, technological, and legitimacy crises. The contributions in this issue seek to address some of these challenges from different perspectives. Taken together they demonstrate profound transformations in factchecking activity, inviting a broader debate about how its practices and legitimacy are negotiated and renegotiated in today’s algorithmic society. Image by Elionas on pixabay The evolving landscape of fact-checking: From heroes to…

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[ad_1] In May, Minnesota became the first state in the country to outlaw prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket. Minnesota state Rep. Emma Greenman (D–Minneapolis) told NPR at the time that the state should “decide how best and what regulations” it would subject prediction markets to. On Monday, a federal court disagreed, issuing a preliminary injunction barring Minnesota from enforcing the ban. The decision, handed down by U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez, found that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)—the federal body that regulates prediction markets—and prediction platforms were “likely to succeed” on claims that they “face a threat…

[ad_1] White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that President Donald Trump concluded meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.  “President Trump has concluded his meetings in the Oval Office with President Zelensky and Prime Minister Netanyahu,” Leavitt wrote on X Tuesday. “Both meetings were positive and productive!” Zelensky and Netanyahu traveled to the US to attend Senator Lindsey Graham’s funeral, and then met with Trump at the White House.  Both leaders were expected to lobby Trump to increase support for their respective wars. According to Israel’s Channel 12 News, Netanyahu plans to make the…

[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Until recently, Lanyia Brooks worked as a custodian in a data center, where she spent her days maintaining the facility while watching tech professionals build the infrastructure around her. Brooks said that perspective changed completely when a data center technician noticed her work ethic and remarked that she “worked too hard to be just working as a custodian,” and sent her a link to a specialized career training program. Despite waiting two anxious months to hear back, Brooks was accepted, conquering her fears to take her very first airplane flight to Indianapolis for the opportunity. One…

[ad_1] Most of the analysis of how Justices votes focuses on the merits docket. But there are far more votes worth tracking. In March 2025, I published a detailed analysis of how the three Trump appointees had voted on the Court since their appointment on the interim docket and on the certiorari docket. Here, I’d like to provide an updated wall of receipts for the past fifteen months. Rulings on the Interim Docket This list includes recent rulings on the interim docket where Justices Thomas or Alito would have granted or denied relief, and one or more of the Trump…

[ad_1] It's Not the Left Rising. It's the Center Falling. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Fauci should not be permitted to deflect with bureaucratic theater, selective memory, and semantic evasion. [ad_2] Source link