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Donald Trump messed with the wrong pope
Christian Paz, Vox
The White House cannot stop fighting with the pope. On Tuesday night, Vice President JD Vance — who converted to Catholicism in 2019 — accused Pope Leo XIV of not understanding the Church’s stance on war, saying it was “very, very important for the pope to be…
Apr 15, 2026, 5:37 PM
DOJ prosecutors turned away after unannounced visit to Fed construction site: Sources
Luke Barr, Alexander Mallin, Abcnews.com
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration’s probe is politically motivated.
Apr 15, 2026, 4:48 PM
Trump escalates threats to fire US Federal Reserve Chair Powell
Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English
In a Fox Business interview, Trump says he will fire Powell if he does not vacate his board seat when his term ends.
Apr 15, 2026, 3:44 PM
Trump threatens to fire Fed chair Powell if he doesn't leave in May
BBC News
Donald Trump's threat marks the latest escalation in his ongoing spat with Jerome Powell.
Apr 15, 2026, 2:14 PM
Trump administration moves to erase Jan. 6 riot convictions for seditious conspiracy
Tom Dreisbach, NPR
The Trump administration is moving to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of extremists involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, who earlier received commutations instead of full pardons.
Apr 15, 2026, 1:30 PM
Magyar to meet Hungarian president as Trump says next PM 'a good man'
BBC News
The man who ended Viktor Orbán's 16 years of continuous rule, Péter Magyar, is calling for a speedy transfer of power.
Apr 15, 2026, 7:37 AM
The CDC Doesn’t Want You To See A CDC Report On How Effective COVID Vaccines Are
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
One of the most remarkable staffing decisions of the second Trump administration has been to allow the anti-vaxxers to run America’s health agencies. While RFK Jr. and his cadre of lieutenants prattle on about how they’re going to be super transparent, data-d…
Apr 15, 2026, 3:10 AM
US justice department seeks to throw out Capitol riot convictions
BBC News
The Trump administration is asking a court to throw out the convictions of Stewart Rhodes and other members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
Apr 15, 2026, 2:56 AM
Kristi Noem ‘Devastated’ by Damaging Photos of Husband Bryon Leaking After Homeland Security Firing
Globe, Globemagazine.com
Leaked photos and messages reported by the Daily Mail have drawn fresh scrutiny to former DHS secretary Kristi Noem amid new allegations involving her...
Apr 15, 2026, 12:18 AM
“Vibes Are Bad”: Trump Admin’s Religious Intensity Unsettles Employees
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution explicitly protects freedom of religion, preventing the government from prohibiting the free exercise of one’s own beliefs, and forbidding the government from establishing an official religion or from favoring one …
Apr 14, 2026, 4:23 PM
Only the Trump Administration Could Employ a FEMA Official Who Claims He Can Teleport and See Ghosts
Jim Vorel, Jezebel
FEMA official Gregg Phillips claimed to have been teleported to a Waffle House, had his life saved by ghosts, and gone on mystical journeys.
Apr 14, 2026, 12:39 PM
Oh God: RFK Jr. Unveils Plan To Be First Sitting Cabinet Secretary To Host A Podcast
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
With all that RFK Jr. has done, and failed to do, as the Secretary of HHS, he should be terribly busy cleaning up mess after mess. The measles outbreak that is going to cause America to lose its elimination status is still ongoing and on pace to quadruple las…
Apr 14, 2026, 3:12 AM
Harmeet Dhillon Is Not Wasting Any Time
Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic
She arrived at the Department of Justice with radical changes in mind. One year later, she has completely reshaped the Civil Rights Division.
Apr 13, 2026, 10:30 AM
Sen. Kelly Rips Trump Admin On Iran Talks: Can’t Send ‘Two Real Estate Developers’ To Negotiate Peace
Heather, Crooksandliars.com
Sen. Mark Kelly didn't hold back his disdain for the idiots that Trump sent to the Middle East to supposedly negotiate a peace plan with Iran this weekend. Kelly made an appearance at Al Sharpton's National Action Network Convention in New York this Saturday…
Apr 12, 2026, 1:30 PM
Donald Trump’s Incompetence Is Costing Him the Country
Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone
An unpopular war, skyrocketing gas prices, unsteady financial markets, a cabinet filled with sycophants — the president’s colossal missteps have led to calamity at home and abroad
Apr 12, 2026, 12:00 PM
The FBI’s ‘Proactive’ Domestic Terrorist Plans Should Terrify Us All
NewsHound Ellen, Crooksandliars.com
Anyone who has read George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four novel, published in 1949, surely remembers the Thought Police going after “thought criminals.” Thanks to Kash Patel and his MAGA comrades in the Trump administration, it is now a case of art imitating l…
Apr 12, 2026, 1:30 AM
Appeals court rules Trump's White House ballroom construction can temporarily move forward
Dareh Gregorian, Gary Grumbach, NBC News
A federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily extended a lower court judge's order allowing the construction of Trump's White House ballroom to move forward.
Apr 11, 2026, 8:54 PM
US appeals court extends deadline to halt White House ballroom construction
Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English
Judges, however, raise questions about Trump arguments that completing the ballroom is necessary for national security.
Apr 11, 2026, 6:58 PM
Roger Stone convinced Trump not to fire Tulsi Gabbard: ‘Fortunately, I acted in time’
Victor Nava, New York Post
Trump was reportedly upset with Gabbard’s performance during a March 18 congressional hearing, where she declined to say whether Iran posed an imminent nuclear threat.
Apr 11, 2026, 12:33 AM
Now the FAA says gamers are the answer to its air traffic controller shortage
Jay Peters, The Verge
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has struggled for years to have enough air traffic controllers to address shortages, with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) saying in January that the number of people in the job in the US has declined by …
Apr 10, 2026, 8:50 PM
Did the Trump administration threaten the pope?
Christian Paz, Vox
Most American Catholics were probably not expecting to spend the first week of Easter trying to figure out whether their government was threatening to overthrow the first American-born pope. Yet a handful of news reports this week raised that very strange pos…
Apr 10, 2026, 6:57 PM
The Trump Administration Wants Gamers to Step Up and Fill the Air Traffic Controller Shortage
Tom Hawking, Gizmodo.com
Shockingly, the answer to a long-running and complex issue is not "gamers."
Apr 10, 2026, 5:40 PM
MTA sits on sidelines as Trump and NJ Transit rebuild Penn Station
Ramsey Khalifeh, Clayton Guse, Gothamist
MTA Chair Janno Lieber wanted to lead the reconstruction of Penn Station. President Donald Trump took the project away from him last year. NJ Transit has signed on as a partner in President Donald Trump's plan to rebuild Penn Station. MTA Chair Janno Liebe…
Apr 10, 2026, 5:16 PM
“Reasonable discussion”: Pentagon denies reports that official threatened Pope Leo
Garrett Owen, Salon
A new report claimed a Pentagon official threatened a representative of the Vatican during a tense meeting.
Apr 9, 2026, 8:50 PM