The Twitter user who was suspended from the platform for tracking the movement of billionaire Elon Musk’s private jet has now moved to rival platform Threads. “ElonMusksJet” launched on Meta-owned Threads on Wednesday, continuing Jack Sweeney’s project of tracking the movements of Musk’s private jet. The account has garnered 24,000 followers as of Saturday. "ElonJet...
A New York state judge has issued a stay on a New York City rule that would require food delivery companies to pay drivers an almost $18 per hour minimum wage. New York State Supreme Court Judge Nicholas Moyne issued a preliminary injunction on Friday to pause the rule from going into effect next week...
Former President Trump continued to slam primary opponent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in a series of Truth Social posts on Saturday, saying that the governor is “'desperately trying to get out” of the 2024 race. “Ron DeSanctimonious is desperately trying to get out of the Presidential race, while at the same time saving face for...
Millions of people in the United States have a genetic mutation that increases their cancer risk, yet policy gaps leave many of them struggling to pay for the lifesaving preventive health care they need. We know that additional cancer screenings and preventative surgeries — such as mastectomies and hysterectomies for those with the greatest risk —...
Almost half of older adults living in the United Kingdom who left the workforce in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic fell into poverty, new research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) found. Forty-eight percent of those ages 50-70 entered poverty after retiring in 2020 or...
This week marked a grim record for Earth's climate, as temperatures repeatedly hit — and passed — levels not seen in 125,000 years, according to government scientists. For context, the last time things were this hot, the first modern humans were just beginning to leave Africa, and chips of sharpened flint represented the bleeding edge of...
Soccer superstar and social activist Megan Rapinoe announced on Saturday that she will retire from the sport at the end of this year’s National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) season. Rapinoe made the announcement on her Instagram account just as her fourth World Cup tournament is about to get underway later this month. She included a...
The Iowa GOP caucuses are slated for Jan. 15, 2024, making the Hawkeye State’s election again the first in the nation for the party. Iowa is the first early primary state to announce the date of its GOP election. It has traditionally been first on the calendar, followed by New Hampshire. Democrats opted to make...
The choice of a mailer is likely by design as the IRS doesn't contact taxpayers by email, text message or social media channels to ask for personal or financial information.
The court’s willful failure to distinguish discriminatory conduct from speech is not just a blow to LGBTQ rights and dignity, it threatens to run roughshod over our modern legal system.
Six people were found dead in a plane crash in California on Saturday as firefighters worked to put out a fire that spread from the aircraft. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that deputies responded to reports of a plane crash at 4:15 a.m. local time and found an aircraft “fully engulfed”...
Tennessee will be allowed to implement its ban on gender-affirming care for minors after an appeals court overturned a lower court’s order to stop the ban. The state’s ban was set to go into effect on July 1, but a federal judge halted its implementation, siding with the American Civil Liberties Union, who said the...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will no longer contest the parole of Leslie Van Houten, a member of the infamous Charles Manson "family" that carried out multiple murders in 1969. Van Houten took part in the killings of Los Angeles grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary, while other members of the cult had killed...
The fix is in. Small business with small budgets are out.
Democrats are hoping to harness anger over the Supreme Court's student loan debt ruling to galvanize younger voters in 2024, a demographic that helped the party earn critical victories in the midterms. The court’s decision last week blocked President Biden's debt forgiveness program and left many dispirited and without options or optimism for paying back...
Democratic strategist David Axelrod said the Green Party bid by academic Cornel West could draw votes away from President Biden, leading to a victory for former President Trump. “In 2016, the Green Party played an outsized role in tipping the election to Donald Trump. Now, with Cornel West as their likely nominee, they could easily...
With ongoing external threats of IP theft, we shouldn’t handicap ourselves at home.
For decades, national parks have served to protect significant sites in the U.S. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work.
If Mark Zuckerberg is so proud of his "content moderation," he should take a victory lap and release the Facebook Files.
More than 20 percent of Republicans surveyed said certain criminal charges against former President Trump have made them more likely to support him in the 2024 election, according to a new Ipsos poll released Thursday. About 24 percent of polled Republicans say the charges in the classified documents investigation make them more likely to support...
If the Democratic National Committee is going to open up the primary to other candidates, the sooner the better.
New York will deploy shark-monitoring drones on its beaches following a recent series of reported attacks. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced in a release on Friday that the drones will be sent to beach communities on Long Island and New York City, and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the bipartisan passage of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Sadly, after three decades, the NVRA is performing far below its potential.
A federal appeals court has upheld a controversial sex trafficking law that opened websites to more liability for content that users post. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on Friday that the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) of 2017 is not overbroad nor unconstitutionally vague...
The EPA's new rule could backfire by discouraging oil and gas producers from adopting potentially more accurate leak detection technologies.
