Новости за 27.06.2023

Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez is so qualified for the job, with such an extensive foreign policy repertoire, that he has simply never heard of a Uyghur before.

There are an estimated 24 million people who identify as LGBTQ in America—a likely undercount, as more and more people grow comfortable embracing themselves. And yet, despite that progress, Republicans like Minnesota state Senator Eric Lucero are working overtime to turn back the clock.

The Supreme Court drove a stake through the heart of the independent state legislature theory on Tuesday, affirming that state courts have the constitutional power to review state laws that administer federal elections. The 6–3 ruling in Moore v. Harper bolsters state-level efforts to fight partisan gerrymandering and removes a potential source of instability ahead of the 2024 elections.

Over the weekend, videos of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exercising circulated the internet. Groaning and glistening while donning tight jeans and no shirt, the presidential candidate earned the approval of an interesting array of people, namely far-right media and Twitter’s blue-check army.

When Alaska became a state in 1959, the newfound government was allowed to select 100 million acres of land to help build an economy from scratch. Tom Marshall, a state employee with a background in geology, urged the governor to consider the northern stretches of Prudhoe Bay—where he suspected the remote tundra’s windblown drifts might conceal a billion-dollar oil field. On a map laying out the proposed area, a skeptical colleague labeled the selection “Marshall’s Folly.” 

A new report out Tuesday morning from a Senate committee rips the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security for ignoring “a massive amount of intelligence information” in the weeks leading up to the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the controversial “independent state legislature theory,” in a serious win for democracy.

They held prom pictures and high school yearbook cutouts. They wore t-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with faces, names, birthdays—and death dates. They drove from all over California to tell lawmakers that their children were “killed” or “murdered.”