International law experts: US strikes on Iran may have amounted to war crimes

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed suit against the states of Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois, challenging their efforts to ban prediction market betting on platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket. Prediction markets allow users to wager on real-world outcomes, from the likelihood of rain in Nevada to the beginning of a war, and have […]

The White House released its much-anticipated budget proposal on Friday. It contains a laundry list of requests. Here are some that might have flown under the radar. President Donald Trump’s proposal got a lot of attention for its move to increase defense spending to $1.5 trillion, a large increase of about 50% from the previous year. The plan would […]

The proposal is "an enormous waste of taxpayer dollars and would make Americans less, not more, safe." Thankfully, Congress is unlikely to adopt it.

NASA officials will update reporters Friday afternoon on the progress of the Artemis II mission, the U.S.'s first crewed lunar mission in roughly five decades. The 10-day test flight is expected to orbit the moon. The crew comprises three U.S. astronauts and one from Canada. At approximately 6:32 p.m. EDT Wednesday, NASA launched Artemis II...