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The administration added new strings for states to receive funding. This could have ripple effects for all households, not just those with low-income children. HHS said it would specifically freeze $10 billion in childcare funds to five blue states.

One neighborhood in New York has elected so many democratic socialists—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani—that people have started calling it “the People’s Republic,” or a part of the Commie Corridor.

As a killing in Minneapolis is documented the law clearly stipulates federal agents do not have universal immunity. Federal officers are not, merely because they are such, granted immunity from prosecution in state courts for crimes against state law

A time to try our souls

A major Texas teachers’ union filed a federal lawsuit against the state challenging what it describes as unconstitutional investigations into hundreds of educators who posted comments on social media following the killing of Charlie Kirk.

These two books reveal the urgent challenge of combatting harmful speech and propaganda – and the real violence it leads to – in our polarised political moment, writes reviewer Featherman.

Once a government convinces its people that what they saw with their own eyes never really happened, what’s left of democracy in that republic is already on life support…

The US Department of Homeland Security accused the slain woman of committing “an act of domestic terrorism” by “attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.”

In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rules more than once when new science shows unacceptable health risks.

Trump’s blunder into Venezuela and how we got here