Politics

In a stunning act of political partisanship, the Roberts Court on Monday night discarded its own precedents to green-light a last-ditch effort by Alabama to use a gerrymandered congressional map for the 2026 midterms. The move, which comes less than two weeks after the court destroyed the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais, will […]

'Illinois has districting criteria that violates the United States Constitution explicitly by elevating race as a primary purpose in legislative line drawing,' a new lawsuit alleges.

A new CNN poll on Tuesday found that 70 percent of Americans disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling the economy. Notably, Trump never reached a 50 percent disapproval rate over the economy during the entire duration of his first term, according to CNN. The Tuesday poll found that 77 percent of respondents—including a […]

With March Madness expansion and a possible College Football Playoff expansion, the NCAA is ignoring fans right when its popularity matters most in Congress.

The seventh American killed in President Donald Trump’s ill-defined war on Iran was from Kentucky. Army Sergeant Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, died a week after he was injured during Iran’s March 1 missile attack on a US air base in Saudi Arabia. When his body arrived at Dover Air Force Base, Trump was not there. Two […]

Smoke lingers in the air from the Brantley Highway 82 Fire on April 24, 2026, in Atkinson, Georgia. The wildfire was one of many burning in the southeastern United States. | Sean Rayford/Getty Images This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Drought and fire are a dangerous duo. The Southeastern United States is witnessing this firsthand, as several major blazes have burned tens of thousands of acres across the

The Evanston, Ill. Reparations Committee has doled out at least $6.36 million in payments through a constitutionally suspect program.

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to implement a new race-neutral congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms on Monday. In a 6-3 order, the high court vacated a series of lower court rulings that effectively resulted in the state’s use of a congressional map that includes two majority-minority districts. As The […]

How might recent Supreme Court decisions have been resolved had Barbara Lagoa been appointed instead of Amy Coney Barrett?

Members of Spain’s External Health Service in Tenerife, Canary Islands, on May 10, 2026, after passengers disembarked from the MV Hondius cruise ship. | Andres Gutierrez/Anadolu via Getty Images Eighteen Americans are now back in the United States after being stuck on a cruise ship that was stricken with an outbreak of hantavirus. That cruise seems a strong contender for among the worst in history — the passengers became stuck early last month, when a handful became sick. Since then, three pas

Alors que plusieurs pays européens alertent sur les risques d'ingérence et de sabotage russes, plus de 620.000 visas ont été délivrés à des ressortissants russes en 2025. En France, ce chiffre a augmenté de 23% l'année dernière.

Une nouvelle étude propose que le Big Bang aurait créé deux univers miroirs, dont l'un dominé par l'antimatière. Cette hypothèse pourrait expliquer pourquoi notre cosmos contient aujourd'hui beaucoup plus de matière que d'antimatière.