Legal intern Raj Gambhir was the principal author of this post. The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing an unprecedented nationwide flight restriction preventing private drone operators, including professional and
By Jonathan Landay, Erin Banco and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - Recent U.S. intelligence reports warn that Iran is unlikely to open the Strait of Hormuz any time soon because its grip on the world’s most vital oil artery provides the only real leverage it has
Trump's war on Iran could force the company's hand
There is now only one engine capable of sustaining growth at the scale Beijing requires, says economics professor and author Keyu Jin.
Two Senate Democrats are seeking answers from the Treasury Department about a plan to add President Trump’s signature to newly minted U.S. paper currency. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Senate banking committee, and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) pressed
Tesana says we can create our "dream game" with prompts, but would 100 million people doing that actually be "exciting"?
The five vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz since Thursday, shipping data showed, reflecting a change in Iran's policy to allow passage for vessels it deems friendly
Argentina's government on Friday offered a reward of 20 million pesos — roughly $14,000 — for information leading to the capture of Galvarino Apablaza, former leader of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR), wanted by Chilean courts as the alleged mastermind of the 1991
The update, available in the public beta branch, makes numerous reworks, tweaks, and fixes, and so far hasn't sparked nearly the level of backlash the last one got.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said Thursday he will not support any nominee for attorney general if the candidate makes excuses for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. President Trump dismissed Pam Bondi from the attorney general post before Tillis's comments, which is expected to set up a
The faux interview "was produced with Claude, Copilot, and edited by humans."
It didn't take long for Nintendo's damsel in distress to steal the show
Two days after President Donald Trump declared that Iran was “no longer a threat” and that its air defense had been “annihilated,” Iranian forces reportedly struck down two US jets on Friday. Citing an Israeli official and a second source with knowledge of the situation, Axios
Iran shot down a US F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet over its territory on Friday, marking the first confirmed downing of a crewed American aircraft since the war began five weeks ago. A second plane, an A-10 Warthog attack aircraft, was also struck by Iranian fire and crashed
Nick Dragotta, Daniel Warren Johnson and others are bringing about a popularity and mania not seen since the heyday of Image Comics in the 1990s.
Timothée Chalamet is set to dominate the streaming charts this April as “Marty Supreme” makes its streaming premiere on HBO Max after earning $178 million worldwide to become A24’s highest-grossing film at the box office. “Marty” also picked up nine Oscar nominations earlier
In a speech to what he called "the single largest gathering of American farmers that the White House has ... ever had," President Donald Trump distorted the facts on the estate tax, soybean exports and more. The post Trump Fumbles the Facts with Farmers appeared first on
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Friday she is very "concerned about escalation" in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, joining a chorus of lawmakers raising the alarm of a potential ground attack. Mace told CNN's Kate Bolduan she has been "very vocal" about this concern after she
Humans haven’t taken photos of Earth from this distance in half a century The post The Best Photos of the Artemis II Mission (So Far) appeared first on Nautilus .
Having abandoned the profane for only the sacred, Dalí’s “Nuclear Mysticism” renounced the richness of experience for the aridity of metaphysics.
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Palantir-linked donations put Democrats in tight spot Campaign contributions from Palantir are becoming a thorn in the side of Democrats in the midterms, as lawmakers on the left dig into the Trump administration’s immigration
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The Legion Go 2 has a great screen and an unaffordable new price point
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the season premiere of “Your Friends & Neighbors,” now streaming on Apple TV. Just as Coop starts to glue his life back together, a new neighbor threatens to tear it back apart. James Marsden swaggers into the Season 2 premiere
China’s top economic planner has stepped in to soften the blow of surging oil prices through an emergency provision.
A former WWE employee has shared grim new details of allegations against the organization’s co-founder Vince McMahon in a filing in her sex abuse lawsuit against him. Janel Grant, who worked at WWE from June 2019 through early 2022, alleged in an affidavit filed earlier this
Republicans are rallying behind Gen. Randy George after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly fired him from the Pentagon, praising the former Army chief of staff as a steady and accomplished military leader. A Pentagon official told The Hill on Thursday that Hegseth asked
Six civilians were killed and 40 others injured as Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles.
Air force pararescue units who specialise in CSAR missions are among the most highly trained in the US military.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Friday ripped the prediction platform Polymarket for accepting bets in a since-deleted page on the date a U.S. pilot shot down over Iran will be found. “They could be your neighbor, a friend, a family member,” Moulton wrote in a post Friday on the
The artist is synthesizing the divergent cultural histories of Western oil painting and Eastern ink painting into one.
We’re expected to believe that the NY Times is a serious newspaper when they are sending a reporter to talk to dozens of ppl to debunk a claim from a known conspiracy theorist, fascist, and grifter that he’d teleported into a Waffle House ?!?
Friday is the Artemis II mission’s third official day as it makes a ten-day journey around the moon and back
“We have to break this cycle of impunity," Ali Cherri, who filed a complaint against Israel in France’s War Crimes Unit, told Hyperallergic.
Homeworld and Deserts of Kharak are worth the price of admission on their own.
The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.
The menu for NASA’s moon mission has 189 unique items on it and mirrors that of the International Space Station
New TCGs based on Cyberpunk 2077 and League of Legends are generating tons of hype
As Slow As Possible . Very very very slow versions of three classic video games: Pong, Breakout, and Missile Command. On the slowest setting, you’re almost begging for a notification functionality to alert you when you need to next engage.
A US district judge on Friday denied the Trump administration’s request to reconsider the legality of two subpoenas targeting the Federal Reserve, after he blocked them last month.
Matthew Shear’s “Fantasy Life” is, for all intents and purposes, his first real screenplay. “I had dabbled,” Shear says. “[But] I’d never completed anything.” So it’s all the more impressive that the film, which expands to theaters nationwide Friday, is his debut feature as a
Savannah Guthrie is set to make her return to NBC’s “Today” this week and the network is expecting big ratings, for the episode as the beloved anchor is welcomed back to Studio 1A in Rockefeller Plaza after a two-month absence due to her mother’s ongoing disappearance. Guthrie
The Easter Bunny is hopping off with your bucks.
The Skyblivion development team put out a new call for help earlier this week, and it led some (including me) to wonder if another delay is coming.
If you're going to force me to talk to the computer, it better be smarter than this.
"When a woman has boundaries, I think people freak out," artist says
We love Finnish screamo here at Stereogum. OK, that’s a little broad. More specifically, I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve heard from the Jyväskylä-based band Alas. That includes “Hän pukeutui aurinkoon,” a new track that hit their Bandcamp today. Alas say “Hän pukeutui aurinkoon”
More than 20 Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday over the president's executive order that restricts voter eligibility and mail-in voting. The lawsuit argues that the U.S. Constitution gives states the primary authority to
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Officials from 23 different states (and the District of Columbia) are taking Donald Trump to court over a brazenly unconstitutional executive order that looks to limit Americans’ voting rights. The executive order, signed on Tuesday, banned the U.S. Postal Service from
