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The Oregon Supreme Court ruled Thursday that 10 Republican state senators have disqualified themselves from the upcoming election, after staging a record-long walkout last year to block bills on abortion access, transgender health care, and gun restrictions.

Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has plans to force a vote on another censure resolution against Representative Ilhan Omar on Thursday—except this time, Greene is attempting to punish the first Somali American legislator in Congress for words she never said.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is openly plotting revenge against the Republicans who ousted him.

Elon Musk’s year is not off to a great start. His luxe compensation package from Tesla—estimated to be worth as much as $55 billion—was blocked by a court in Delaware, the tax haven where the company is incorporated. Tesla is also being sued by 25 California counties over its alleged mishandling of toxic waste. Amid all that well-earned bad press, though, Tesla seems to have made at least one good decision: to start offering a small, cheap electric car.

Last year, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that the use of affirmative action in college admissions violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. The decision effectively ended race-conscious admissions programs throughout American higher education.

Donald Trump’s courtroom dramas are beginning to overwhelm his political ambitions.

A Florida school district has drawn over the illustrations in multiple award-winning children’s books in its libraries after the chair of the local Moms for Liberty chapter complained that some of the characters were shown naked. One of the offending characters? A goblin who showed his backside.

E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer has revealed in a new interview that Donald Trump has only himself to blame for his two massive losses to the writer.

Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert is still getting skewered by her fellow lawmakers for getting caught groping a date back in September.

The fairly routine ritual interrogation of tech CEOs before a congressional committee hearing took a swerve Wednesday, when X (formerly Twitter) pledged its support for an “online safety” bill that would give Republicans another weapon in their assault on queer and trans people. The Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, has been touted as way for tech companies to be held accountable for harm to minors, including from unwanted exposure to content on eating disorders and suicide or from adults’ ability... Читать дальше...

The 2005 blockbuster Mr. and Mrs. Smith doesn’t just feel like it’s a document from another time; it feels almost imaginary. It’s a movie that seems like it happened, sure, but if you told me right now that, in fact, there never was a movie starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as rival spies, that the filming of that movie was not the catalyst for the breakup of Pitt and then-wife Jennifer Aniston, and that all the slickly produced fight scenes and wry couples therapy two-shots I thought I remembered... Читать дальше...

A frightening new batch of polls this week showed President Biden trailing Donald Trump in all the key battleground states. And yet, as bleak as the polling has looked for many months, Democrats racked up an impressive winning streak in special elections all throughout 2023. This disconnect is why political pros are closely watching an election for state House in the Philadelphia suburbs that’s set for February 13. We talked to Democratic candidate Jim Prokopiac to gauge what he’s seeing on the ground in swing territory... Читать дальше...

Texas Representative Troy Nehls on Wednesday urged Congress not to do anything about the border at all.

Representative Matt Gaetz is trying to drum up support for a resolution stating that Donald Trump did not engage in insurrection.

For the second year in a row, Fortune’s annual survey of chief executives has designated Elon Musk—who is the richest person in the United States—the nation’s most overrated CEO. Kathaleen McCormack, the chancellor of Delaware’s Court of Chancery, appears to agree. Yesterday she voided Musk’s $55.8 billion pay package at Tesla, while calling into question the wisdom, independence, and honesty of Tesla’s board. This is an unexpected triumph for anyone who aspires to save capitalism from itself.

A Trump-appointed judge effectively handed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis the keys to Disney World on Wednesday, ruling that the governor’s choice to dissolve the company’s special tax district and personally appoint every member of its new local governing body was “facially constitutional.”