Saw the !usa@lemmy.ml comm and has a... suspicious amount of negative articles and specific people who submit things and stuff. Just want to get some actual news up in a /c/ that Americans can refer to if they would like.
To make this massive data dump more accessible, COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate into an easily searchable repository via Google Pinpoint. Use the search tool here.
Ms. Wilson, a self-described socialist, joined the race after Mayor Bruce Harrell opposed taxing high-income residents to finance construction of new housing.
The URL parameter that the Minnesota Star Tribune uses to indicate something is a gift link is also used by common analytics platforms, so most lemmy instances remove it.
“DON’T BUY STARBUCKS,” says Starbucks Workers United as it begins a national strike Thursday. The union says it’s ready for the “biggest and longest” strike in company history as it demands fair pay and for the company to address union-busting complaints.
When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now she’s splitting hairs about men “into the barely legal type.”
Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
A disturbing email released as part of the House Oversight Committee’s 20,000-page document dump on Wednesday revealed a chummy relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Tom Barrack, a private equity investor who currently serves as the U.S. ambassador to Turkey.
The Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist. Months passed before anyone noticed it wasn’t deleted.
For years, AIPAC played a key role in U.S. politics as a campaign financing powerhouse, but now aspiring candidates are distancing themselves from the group. What lies ahead for the Lobby as the Gaza genocide has made Israel a political liability?
Reagan-appointed federal judge Mark Wolf has resigned from the bench in Massachusetts, and his explanation is blunt: he can no longer bear the ethical constraints that prevent judges from speaking out publicly while Trump dismantles the rule of law.
The fired members of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s internal watchdog were looking into complaints that Director Bill Pulte and his team improperly pulled records of Democratic officials.
“It seems to me like we are looking at a labor market with near-zero labor force growth and near-zero real wage growth,” wrote economist Dean Baker. “This means that real labor income in the economy is essentially flat.”
The question before the Court is not whether the work program violated labor laws, but whether GEO can claim the federal government’s immunity from certain lawsuits and avoid further litigation while that claim is unresolved.
Colorado coal plants are likely to face DOE orders to keep running past planned closure dates, even as the costs of keeping an old Michigan plant open pile up.
In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.
In the wake of the Chicago South Shore raid—which reportedly saw masked U.S. agents rappelling down from a Black Hawk helicopter, bursting into a 130-unit building, kicking down doors, zip-tying and holding American citizens at gunpoint, and the detention of 37 Venezuelan nationals—a law school classmate asked me: Why isn’t every one of these raids—where officers trash property and terrorize residents—a potential Bivens case?
Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from President Donald Trump, a whistleblower has told House Democrats.
‘I always get the money from someplace regardless, it doesn’t matter,’ president tells Fox News host Laura Ingraham in latest interview as he dismisses public’s concerns about the economy
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Donald Trump became the first sitting president in nearly a half-century at a regular-season NFL game, attending the Washington Commanders’ 44-22 loss to the visiting Detroit Lions on Sunday.
Chi Ossé, a far-left city councilman aligned with the policies of Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, has told political allies that he is planning to challenge Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat, in next June’s primary.
Israel kills three Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours. Over 6,000 amputation cases registered in Gaza, a quarter of them children. The Israeli militarized “yellow line” potentially becomes a de facto border within Gaza. The U.S. shares a revised draft of its peace plan with the UN. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights releases a report that details systematic sexual abuse in Israeli prisons. Ben-Gvir hands out candy after the Knesset advances a death penalty bill. Former Al-Qaeda affiliate and current Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa visits the White House. ICE agents pepper-spray a one-year-old in Cicero. New York City Councilman Chi Ossé prepares to run against Hakeem Jeffries. Departing NYC Mayor Eric Adams is set to make his third trip to Israel this week. Pakistan’s military takeover of the government passes its senate. Thailand suspends its ceasefire with Cambodia. Clashes in Nigeria’s northeast kill 200. Russia takes three more villages in Ukraine. At least 12 killed in car bomb outside judicial complex in Islamabad. At least 13 killed in car bomb near metro station in New Delhi.
Following years of organizing by LGBTQ+ activists, advocates for queer rights and Palestinian solidarity announced Tuesday that the Human Rights Campaign, one of the largest LGBTQ+ organizations in the world, has stopped taking cash from manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, according to the statement from the Gender Liberation Movement and Adalah Justice Project.
Bank of America is facing a proposed class and collective action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing to pay hundreds of hourly workers for time spent booting their computers, logging in, and launching required software before officially starting their shifts.
The capitulation of Senate Democrats in ending the government shutdown without healthcare concessions has sparked outrage. Calls for new leadership and primary challenges are growing. The fight for a Democratic Party that truly fights back continues.
This likely means:
* a huge display of force in Chicago before they go
* other places are now going to get the kind of treatment that Chicago did, so pushback is going to be really important
Amid outrage over Democrats caving in the government shutdown fight, polling shows the nationwide popularity of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s economic agenda.
President Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of his political allies for their support or involvement in plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to the Department of Justice’s Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin.
In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls.
Trump has pardoned over 70 people who tried to help him overturn his 2020 election loss. Some fear it encourages GOP officials to become even bolder with efforts to help Trump subvert future elections, “knowing that if they succeed, they’ll be pardoned.”
Congressional Republicans are reportedly trying to insert anti-abortion language into government funding legislation as the shutdown continues, with the GOP and President Donald Trump digging in against a clean extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits as insurance premiums surge.
The Senate is voting on the first steps to end the 40-day government shutdown Sunday after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care subsidies, angering many in their caucus who wanted to continue the fight.
President Donald Trump’s administration is demanding states “undo” full SNAP benefits paid out under judges’ orders last week, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed those rulings, marking the latest swing in a seesawing legal battle over the anti-hunger program used by 42 million Americans.
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