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Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal prosecutors. n.pr/3XiBDAJ

Senator Jim Justice, Republican of West Virginia, and his wife have agreed to pay the Internal Revenue Service more than $5 million to cover unpaid taxes from 2009. nyti.ms/48nq0xH

In honor of Father’s Day, we asked readers to submit their most cherished dad texts. We received corny jokes, goofy photos and expressions of unconditional love. Here are some of our favorites. nyti.ms/43YrTP0

Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman was killed Saturday in a politically motivated assassination along with her husband, Mark, in their home. Minnesota lawmaker Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were also shot and wounded at their home nearby.

It's more than that. Everything is red meat for MAGA. Lining up Mexican flags against a line of LAPD is basically an image that says to the unengaged American - which is MOST of them - "Donald Trump is right. This is a stand against a foreign invading mob."

ICE detained a US marshal because he "fit the general description of a subject." Basically, they racially profiled their own kind.

Pete Hegseth is threatening to send active-duty Marines into California. Pure madness. Pure authoritarianism.

A large explosion that collapsed a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, on Saturday killed at least one person and injured four in what the FBI is calling an intentional act of terrorism.

The U.S. now spends more on interest payments on the national debt than on national defense. This is not sustainable.

An effort to kill off lawsuits against oil giants is gaining steam - my latest in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/c...

Pope Leo XIV voted in 2024 U.S. general election — here's which primaries he's voted in.

New York, Dallas, Seattle and 25 other major U.S. cities are sinking, threatening the structural integrity of buildings, roads, dams and other forms of infrastructure, new research found. cbsn.ws/4kbTEu2

NOAA announced Thursday that it is decommissioning several databases, including its widely reported annual compilation of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.

Pete Hegseth’s culture war hits West Point. Books banned, syllabuses scrubbed, two professors resign in protest, the librarian quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

Despite the program saving Americans $350 per household for every $1 invested into the program, this moronic admin will eliminate some praised by both consumers and manufacturers alike, raising energy bills for all households across the country. It’s a war on the poor.

Three weeks ago, a whistleblower report was published detailing egregious security breaches at the NLRB, detailing attempted logins from Russian IP addresses, correct username and passwords, within 15 minutes of the accounts being created by DOGE. @democrats.senate.gov need to investigate. Now.

100 days ago Trump declared “our golden age has just begun.” His inaugural speech began with the line “From this day forward, our country will flourish.” This morning’s economic news is so bad that Trump is now trying to distance himself from the economy. His tariffs did this.

CSIS's Daniel Byman writes that "by attacking iconic U.S. companies, foreign governments can further divide Americans and undermine the credibility of the U.S. government." More on how foreign governments are attempting to polarize politics:

Make no mistake, Trump’s disastrous tariffs remain in place and are raising prices for consumers. And Trump’s escalating trade war with China risks crashing the global economy.

Donald Trump erects a protectionist barrier around America https://www.ft.com/content/311cb6fd-b6bb-42cf-a19f-d9bf2e89d9a6

U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariffs are a major blow to the world economy and will hurt vulnerable people the most, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says. Follow AP live updates.

Deutsche Bank’s asset manager DWS has been fined €25mn by German prosecutors over a greenwashing scandal. Prosecutors have said that DWS used ‘aggressive’ advertising to mislead investors about its green credentials between 2020 and 2023. www.ft.com/content/5104...

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reoriented the U.S. military to prioritize deterring China’s seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense by “assuming risk” in Europe and other parts of the world.

Warnings of language as a weapon of manipulation, obfuscation and oppression run through George Orwell’s work. It is a reason you could be excused for hearing real-life echoes of scenes from “1984” emanating from Washington, Matthew Purdy writes.

The Trump administration summarily fired the staff of the U.S. Institute of Peace late Friday night, less than two weeks after forcibly removing the congressionally funded organization’s president and installing in his place an agent of tech Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.

In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser in the wake of the Signal leak. But behind the scenes, he has been casting around for advice. Read an inside account of Trump’s deliberations over what to do about Michael Waltz.

Crowds protesting billionaire Elon Musk’s purge of the U.S. government under President Donald Trump began amassing outside Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. and in some cities in Europe on Saturday. apnews.com/article/elon...

Between the arrogant tech twerps who think “we’ve got this,” and the malicious characters behind them who want the system to break, so they can fix it through privatizing with tech bros and private equity, there’s a LOT to worry about here.

NEW: Trump told NBC News he ‘couldn’t care less’ if automakers raise car prices due to his tariffs. Well, at least he doesn’t pretend to care anymore.

A few GOP lawmakers said they would look into the breach, but Republicans largely refrained from criticizing the Trump administration after top national security officials had used a messaging app to chat about military operations.

The National Security Agency sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning them of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal, according to internal NSA documents obtained by CBS News. https://cbsn.ws/3FTvCos

A person with a confirmed measles infection may have exposed Amtrak passengers on a train to Washington, D.C., earlier this month, officials at the D.C. Department of Health said. https://cbsn.ws/43TxmIn

West Virginia became the first state to ban nearly all artificial food dyes. Twenty others are considering similar laws.

"If you’re the head of a huge law firm, capitulation isn’t just a regrettable necessity, it’s your duty. You’re acting in the best interests of your clients. It would be wrong and irresponsible to act otherwise" - things people tell themselves www.thebulwark.com/p/stop-makin...

How Trump is “effectively institutionalizing disinformation,” pushing a “new era of post-truth politics” that enables his administration to use fictions to promote its agenda. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...

An attack on law firms and lawyers is an attack on the rule of law. No two ways about it.

The arrest of Erdoğan’s most serious opposition challenger has spooked markets and triggered Turkey’s largest protests in more than a decade amid dark forebodings about the country’s political future. www.ft.com/content/6572...

The lawsuit includes a photo of a notebook found in John Barnett's truck when he died by suicide, bearing the message, "I pray Boeing Pays!!!" In response to the new lawsuit, Boeing said in a statement, "We are saddened by John Barnett's death and extend our condolences to his family."

Weeks before President Donald Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his agenda, his supporters around the nation seeded the ground to turn public opinion against the institution that has been the leading check on his administration.

The plan includes a pitch to the Trump administration for a managed transfer over the next five to 10 years www.ft.com/content/939b...

NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.

Thanks for the shoutout! "The story drew on private recordings of a series of speeches given in 2023 and 2024 by Russell Vought obtained by our colleagues at Documented, a news site with a remarkable knack for uncovering information powerful interests would prefer remained secret."

Needs 60 Senate votes to completely dismantle it and you can count me as a hell no. See you in court.

The Trump administration on Monday quietly rescinded an order that had blocked a major Dominican sugar producer with political ties to President Trump from shipping sugar to the U.S. because of allegations of forced labor at the company.

Trump just illegally fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission – an independent agency that Congress created to protect your rights as consumers.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a government-backed overseas broadcaster, sued the Trump administration in an attempt to get it to release funds appropriated by Congress.

Because there’s no such thing as too foolish for MAGA.

"In a new age of U.S.-China competition, some of the most critical challenges are taking place in the nooks and corners of the world," write CSIS Defense and Security Department experts. Read more on great power competition in Oceania:

Breaking news: In an emergency session of the outgoing Bundestag, the chancellor-in-waiting won the support of 513 lawmakers, more than the two-thirds majority required for the constitutional changes. www.ft.com/content/8074...

The Justice Department is pushing to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams in Manhattan while federal authorities in Brooklyn have been investigating his top fund-raiser for evidence of a possible Chinese government scheme to influence Adams’s election.