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A little-used federal law is being activated in ways that could turn immigration screening into the backbone of a far-reaching DNA surveillance system

The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time

A right-wing think tank backpedaled on a absurdly exaggerated report after the Trump administration wanted to use it to go after the liberal megadonor

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul moved to gut a bill with modest AI regulations a day after an industry PAC started attacking the bill’s co-sponsor

The administration is targeting alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, and on Sept. 2 launched a second strike to kill seemingly defenseless survivors

The right tore itself apart over Tucker Carlson’s interview with the white nationalist. Trump shrugged. Now he’s everywhere

A visit to Charles Lindbergh’s gravesite recalls parallels with the man who picked up his nativist scepter, Donald Trump

There’s plenty of overlap — both in strategy and personnel — in how the industries are working to elect sympathetic lawmakers

The Afghan who served in a U.S.-backed Zero Unit struggled with apparent mental health issues after migrating to America in 2021

The president and Republicans are doing all they can to gut government programs that help the less fortunate

Presentation documents and a recording reveal how the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the industry’s trade group, is expanding efforts to sell more weapons online

In Baltimore, blue collar workers are fighting back, preparing for the “Green Workforce of the Future” and defending offshore wind

The White House has reverted to type, the president’s administration tries to force Putin’s desired outcome on Zelensky

Project Veritas has been publishing scoops featuring a fugitive con artist pushing conspiracy theories about her enemies

The president has complained for years about magnetic systems in Navy aircraft carriers, but more recently claimed that “nobody knows” what magnets are

Funding cuts are hitting scientists researching geoengineering like solar-radiation modification and carbon-dioxide removal

The president continues to be haunted by his years of close friendship with the late sex offender

The U.S. thinks counterterrorism can hold Syria together, and is counting on a former Al Qaeda militant to help do the job

Thoughts and Prayers takes a fresh — and deliberately unsettling — approach to America’s active-shooter dystopia

Escalating an arms race that could bring about Armageddon is only part of the reason Trump’s push to resume testing is terrifying

The Trump administration is using taxpayer money to blame Democrats for the shutdown

The National Shooting Sports Foundation has won accolades for trying to raise awareness about suicide, but it uses deceptive numbers to promote its efforts

The Republican nominee knew his campaign was doomed, but his supporters partied like they’d won City Hall

Everything he touches fails: Is Bush Next?

ICE and DHS have spent more than $10 million on advertising in just the first three weeks of October

The Trump administration’s terror campaign is leading immigrants like Juan Ramón González to leave the country

The president has given his administration a green light to go after activists who oppose his authoritarian regime

President Trump’s sweeping legislation is bringing dramatic changes to Medicaid, SNAP, and other government programs — and the rural Green Mountain State stands to be hit hard

The president wants to replicate his Washington, D.C., “success” in Chicago. Targeted communities have found similar ways to resist in both cities

Despite a widespread consensus that marriage should be banned for minors, a majority of U.S. states still allow the practice

The president’s teardown of the East Wing is a jarring visual reminder of his no-holds-barred commitment to reshape the nation in his own image

The frontman and activist is calling on artists to “step up” and speak out against Donald Trump’s authoritarianism

“This is not something that’s coming,” the Georgia politician and activist says of authoritarianism. “It’s here”

In the largest series of demonstrations against the administration and its policies to date, participants express fear and loathing at America’s political trajectory

Comedian Rob Potylo — a.k.a. Robby Roadsteamer — was dragged into detention while singing a Rod Stewart parody

Calling himself El Quitavisas, or the Visa Taker, Chris Landau is teaming up with anonymous X accounts to crack down on speech

Republicans are attempting to brand the peaceful, anti-authoritarian movement as a swarm of terroristic America haters

GOP-controlled legislatures have rolled back and narrowed voter-approved paid sick-leave policies

When Customs and Border Protection apprehended Jackie Merlos and her children, a lawmaker and a friend mobilized to find them

The president’s $30 billion in cuts targeting Democrats will harm the entire economy, hitting women and people of color the hardest

The right loves the accounts, which often rail against supposed voter fraud. They’re run by a Macedonian who illegally donated to a U.S. House candidate

“Things are not normal,” the 30-year-old Memphis native tells Rolling Stone

The country’s best-known suicide prevention group teamed up with the gun industry. The effort was good for public relations and raising money, but it never met its goal, and internal records show why

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump expanded his war on free speech, the left, and ordinary Americans. It’s going to get worse

The president railed against the “enemy from within” to generals this week. NPSM-7 could enable the administration to go after anything they see as “anti-American”

Democrats are trying to hold the line as president touts the “unprecedented opportunity” to cut government agencies

The president’s dark fantasy about “war ravaged” Portland is a grim warning for America

Adelita Grijalva says she “can’t see another reason” why she hasn’t been allowed to begin serving her constituents in Arizona

“There needs to be a fearlessness,” the MSNBC host and former White House press secretary says of how Democrats should lead the fight against the president

An excerpt from Without Precedent lays out how the chief justice auditioned for the role while presiding over a controversial Bush administration case

The president has set his sights on Alaska as a test case for his “National Energy Dominance” agenda. Alaskans are resisting

Donald Trump is punting on the future of energy. Xi Jinping is happy to take the lead

Experts and advocates agree the president’s sloppy attempt to blame the disorder on Tylenol does more harm than good

An Indiana university fired an employee amid a firestorm whipped up by the state’s attorney general. Did that violate the Constitution?

The conservative justice could be in a position to overturn a Supreme Court ruling in a case he lost as a private attorney

The president’s social media posts urging Pam Bondi to promptly charge his political foes blindsided top officials in his administration

At least one of the flights dumped people in a prison camp in Ghana, a country where they had no ties

Trump and company are using Charlie Kirk’s assassination as an excuse to ramp up their ongoing campaign for total power

ABC suspended Kimmel’s show after right-wingers twisted comments he made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination

Andy Kim was catapulted to the Senate on the heels of his predecessor’s corruption scandal. He’s had enough

Randi Weingarten’s new book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers, reveals why Trump and the right demean teachers, slash school funding, and rewrite history

Everything you loathe or love about Donald Trump’s America, you hate or cherish about Miller’s republic of fear

Though brain chips are all over TV and the news now with Neuralink, scientists like those at Caltech have been working on the technology for decades. And some question Musk’s approach

Donald Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services promised healthier kids. The administration’s actions tell a different story

Thirteen months before Sept. 11, retired Army Col. David Hackworth warned of a pending terrorist attack in the pages of a lad magazine. The unlikely story of how that article came to be

James Talarico led his party’s opposition to Trump’s gerrymandering scheme. Now he wants to head to Washington

A movement leader tells Rolling Stone about the No Kings 2 demonstrations on Oct. 18, and how they can curb Trump’s overreach

Mike Johnson said the president was an informant against Jeffrey Epstein while still telling Republicans to vote against the release of the Epstein files

Tori Branum, who’s running for Congress in Georgia, says she tipped off the Trump administration and feels “good” about it

J.B. Pritzker and Gavin Newsom believe Trump’s National Guard deployments are a threat to fair elections

The president is actively threatening to invade Chicago, and bombed a purported drug boat from Venezuela in international waters

Blackstone billionaire Steve Schwarzman gave $2 million to Collins’ Super PAC a day before she voted to advance Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

The president denied hearing about the baseless rumors circulating on social media that he died over Labor Day weekend

The progressive senator says he’s backing Graham Platner to show ordinary Americans they can take on the political establishment and win

“That’s the scariest thing about what we’re watching right now,” says a retired general

The president hyped how a Trump high-rise could help rebuild the city. Behind the scenes he was trying to pull out of the deal

After Parkland, the gun industry’s research found that people with “positive feelings” about gun ownership were open to common reform arguments

The administration’s efforts to transform the health agency into an incubator for medical conspiracies is drawing ire from within

“We know why we were there,” New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver says of the visit to an ICE facility that led to her indictment. “To do our jobs”

As more migrants self-deport and turn around before they get to the border, their new future comes into focus

Are Trump’s military campaigns in blue cities a “distraction,” or what matters?

Leonard Leo, the longtime Federalist Society honcho, is lending a hand to Republican candidates in key races

The party laid out its plan to counter Texas’ 2026 power grab with a new map in California

Yessenia Ruano fled El Salvador 14 years ago for asylum in the United States. This summer, after threats of deportation, she packs up her family and says goodbye to her home

After Abrego Garcia was allowed to return home, a Trump official tells Rolling Stone, “We are not going to stop coming after him”

No sanctions, no cease-fire, no security guarantee, but plenty of fossil fuel deals brew after Trump’s cringeworthy Putin-appeasement on Ukraine

Coast Guard planes mostly used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including one caught on video

Allison Ball told conservatives that Jamie Dimon made the threat over her effort to blacklist his bank. JPMorgan calls her account “entirely false”

Federal riot police are bombarding a Portland neighborhood with so many chemical munitions it forced a public school to flee

Donald Trump set up a Potemkin police state in the nation’s capital. It’s not going well

The former Amazon Labor Union president speaks about his organizing journey and the “extremely challenging” work ahead

Journalists and legal observers report severe injuries when attempting to cover Trump’s immigration raids and protests in Los Angeles

DSA convened in Chicago to sort out internal disputes and chart a path forward following Zohran Mamdani’s seismic win

Corporations and universities with the power to stand up to Trump are instead bowing to his authoritarianism

Trump is eager to breach Mexico’s sovereignty to attack cartels, officials say — just don’t call it an invasion

The president and his administration are struggling to bury the scandal around their handling of the convicted sex offender’s case

L.A. and D.C. are only the beginning, as the president’s team has been drawing up plans to unleash federal forces in other Democratic strongholds

The legislative assault on housing-insecure Americans is being pushed by the corporation-friendly American Legislative Exchange Council

The world is burning. Trump wants to add more fossil fuels to the fire, while sidelining the brightest solution

Three House members authored a resolution recognizing the health care program’s anniversary. They all voted to take it away from thousands of their constituents