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Ohio’s Utility Regulator Made Data Centers Pay in 2025, and $45 Million in Midterm Ads Still Promise to Do It

Campaigns and outside groups have spent more than $45 million since January on ads…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 6

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The Supreme Court Locked In Midterm Ad Rates Without Ruling on Whether They Are Legal

The Supreme Court on Friday restored a Federal Communications Commission policy that lets Republican…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 4

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An ICE Agent Faces a Lying Charge Because Washington Blocked the Civil Rights Case

Prosecutors in Minnesota prepared a civil rights charge against the ICE officer who fired…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 3

Gloria Steinem, silver-blonde hair parted in the middle and wearing her signature aviator glasses and a red blazer, sits at a desk stacked with periodicals in a book-lined room

Gloria Steinem Died at 92. The Equal Rights Amendment Still Is Not in the Constitution.

Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday at her home in New York City, at the…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 3

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Iran Says the Sidr Hit a Mine. Saudi Arabia Says Iran Killed Two Sailors on It.

Saudi Arabia said Wednesday that an Iranian attack on the tanker Sidr killed two…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 2

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Congress Sent the Iran War Bill to the Lame Duck, the One Session Voters Cannot Reach

On Tuesday the House voted 370 to 48 to keep the federal government funded…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 2

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Congress Is Writing a Second Epstein Law Because the Attorney General Already Admitted He Is Breaking the First

Thomas Massie stood on the House floor Monday night and read fourteen names into…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 2

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Oil at $94 Is Priced on the Mines Nobody Can Find, Not the Ones the Navy Cleared

President Donald Trump justified Tuesday’s strikes on Iran as retaliation for what he called…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 1

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The Army Secretary Quit Over the General Hegseth Fired in April

Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation as Secretary of the Army on Monday, ending eighteen…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 1

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The Census Report Went Up on August 18. The Rule Against Political Interference Came Down on August 19.

The Commerce Department revised its scientific integrity policy on August 19 and stripped out…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 1

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The Supreme Court Let Trump Finish a Ballroom Its Own Chief Justice Calls Likely Unlawful

The Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for President Donald Trump to finish…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 31

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The Pentagon Spent Monday Denying a Strike the President Announced Himself – Does He Even Know it’s AI?

Trump posted an AI video of Kharg Island in flames. The Defense Department had…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 31

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Because Congress Never Appropriated the Money, Nobody Can Trace the $32.3 Million in Deportation Payments

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Washington Bought 55% of a Joint Venture, Not 65 Billion Barrels of American Oil

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The US Bombed Iran Under a Standing Order Trump Issued Five Days Earlier

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The Roman Space Telescope, the Mission This White House Tried Repeatedly to Cancel, Launches This Morning

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Lindell Never Paid the $825,000, and the Court Rejected His Recount Theory Anyway

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Renaming a Lake Costs Trump Nothing. Refusing to Repeat It Cost the AP Its White House Seat.

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The Executive Order Creating a Space Academy Does Not Create a Space Academy

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ICE Did Not Need a Case Against Milo Yiannopoulos, Only the Hearing He Skipped

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The Chinese Parts in America’s Voting Machines Are Real, Which Is Why Homeland Security Can Get Away With This

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Minnesota Never Voted on the Gun Bill Annunciation’s Parents Spent a Year Fighting For

A crew of farmworkers in wide-brim hats and long sleeves bent over rows of lettuce at sunrise, stacked produce crates and a harvest rig behind them

A Judge Ruled the Farmworker Pay Cuts Illegal. The Pay Cuts Are Still in Force.

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Because Harald V Refused to Abdicate, Norway’s New King Inherits a Monarchy Mid-Scandal

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Artificial Intelligence

House Leaders Still Have No Floor Date for the One Energy Bill Nobody Voted Against

National Park Service maintenance crews and a utility vehicle beside the drained Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool at dawn, with orange haze on the horizon

Australia Sent Us an Incident Management Team. Ours Is Cleaning a Reflecting Pool.

Michelle Obama, Craig Robinson and Jon Stewart seated in tan leather armchairs around a black round table with broadcast microphones in the warm living-room set of the IMO podcast

After Michelle Obama Asked If Comedy Helps Politics, Jon Stewart Said He Has No Way to Know

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The State Department Paused Visa Appointments Worldwide Five Days After a Judge Voided Its Country List

A public health nurse in navy scrubs and blue gloves draws a vaccine dose from a glass vial at a paper-covered folding table, with rows of empty folding chairs behind her in a sunlit community hall

Two Unvaccinated Lancaster County Residents Are the First Americans to Die of Measles in 2026

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Trump’s 300,000-Ton Beef Waiver Has Republicans in Cattle Country Breaking Ranks