Raskin turns down Senate race, announces 2024 reelection bid

Anticipation built around Raskins’ decision as he would have been considered a strong candidate for the Senate seat.

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Arizona Columnist Begs Trump To Take Kari Lake Off Their Hands

Anything to get the execrable Kari Lake out of Arizona for good.

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North Carolina’s GOP front-runner for governor has a history of racist and antisemitic diatribes

Social media posts by Mark Robinson are part pattern of inflammatory pronouncements in which he has invoked antisemitic stereotypes, flirted with Holocaust denialism and targeted Muslims and trangender people, among other minority groups

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In Ag-Friendly Iowa, Trump Goes After DeSantis on Farming Issues

At a rally in Iowa on Friday, the former president questioned his top Republican rival’s support for the agriculture industry.

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Pope Francis’ picks for the synod are in—and suggest this will be a Vatican meeting like no other

The Synod on Synodality is officially the 16th ordinary assembly of the synod of bishops, but it promises to be radically different from any of its predecessors.

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Employment among people with disabilities hits post-pandemic high

While the remote work boom helped some workers find additional flexibility, it has also eliminated longstanding obstacles for this vulnerable community.

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Texas gunman in racist Walmart shooting sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms, could still face death penalty

Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty earlier this year to nearly 50 federal hate crime charges in the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, making it one of the U.S. government’s largest hate crime cases.

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Starbucks Closed a Store “In Large Part to Discourage Unionization,” Rules Judge

The Ithaca, New York, store has been ordered to reopen. The company plans to appeal.

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Teen Arrested After Shooting in Baltimore Leaves 2 Dead and 28 Wounded

The police called the 17-year-old a “person of interest” in the shooting on Sunday and said he had been charged with possession of an assault weapon and other crimes.

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Shadowy Purchase of Air Force Base-Adjacent Land Raises Security Fears

Flannery Associates acquired 52,000 acres near one of the most important U.S. military installations. Nobody can find out who they are, or why they bought it.

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