For the venerable American Civil Liberties Union, Donald Trump’s four years in the White House had the intensity of life during wartime.
The group filed its first lawsuit against the Trump administration on January 28, 2017, just eight days after Trump took office and one day after he promulgated his first attempt at banning the entry into the U.S. of travelers from several Muslim-majority nations.
The pace of the organization’s legal combat against Trump never let up. Ultimately the ACLU
When the Fitch Ratings agency announced this week that it was downgrading its long-term credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+, Biden administration officials were ready — and angry.
Administration officials had been lobbying Fitch against the downgrade, which bewildered many economists but became immediate fodder for congressional Republicans and nonpartisan budget hawks to criticize the nation’s current fiscal direction.
When the ratings agency went through with the move anyway, President Biden’s team mobilized a rapid response,
The Washington cliché is that it’s the cover-up, not the crime. In this case, it might be both.
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The summer holidays are here and Sir Keir Starmer’s welcomed them with yet more flip-flops.
No, not for his holidays, the only flip flops Sir Slippery is interested in are when it comes to Labour’s policies. This time our pensions are on the line.
At the ‘National Policy Forum’ in Nottingham last weekend, delegates must have been waiting with bated breath for Labour to lay out their ‘vision’.
All they got was broken promises.
Assembled lefty loons and Union Barons
What’s happening? There’s currently nothing stopping someone taking the selfie you posted online last week and editing it using powerful generative AI systems. Even worse, it might be impossible to prove that the resulting image is fake. The good news is that a new tool, created by researchers at MIT, could prevent this.
How does it work? The tool, called PhotoGuard, works like a protective shield by altering photos in tiny ways that are invisible to the human eye but
The coral reef, once bustling with more than 5,000 long-spined sea urchins, became a ghost town in a matter of days. White skeletons with dangling spines dotted the reef near the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba, the water cloudy from the disintegrating corpses. In just a week last April, half of the urchins, Diadema antillarum, in a section of reef called “Diadema City” had died. In June, only 100 remained.
The mysterious die-off started sweeping across the Caribbean in
A 13-year-old boy who saved his siblings’ lives while his father was stabbed to death by a knife-wielding attacker yards away has been awarded for his bravery.
Freddie Boorman was playing on his Xbox at home in Gloucestershire last October when he heard his mother Sarah screaming in the front garden.
After running downstairs towards the screams Freddie saw his father Matthew being brutally attacked.
Despite the trauma of what he had witnessed, oldest brother Freddie had one priority –
Prince Harry was last night accused by royal staff of ‘breathtaking arrogance’.
They said his self-delusion knew ‘no bounds’ in an extraordinary interview in which he claimed he wanted to ‘protect’ the Queen.
Buckingham Palace was left reeling after the prince said in the US TV appearance that his ‘special’ relationship with his grandmother meant she told him things she would keep from others.
Harry also risked further fuelling the rift with his estranged brother by stating that their mother
Between a death and a burial was hardly the best time to show up in a remote village in Madagascar to make a pitch for forest protection. Bad timing, however, turned out to be the easy problem.
This forest was the first one that botanist Armand Randrianasolo had tried to protect. He’s the first native of Madagascar to become a Ph.D. taxonomist at Missouri Botanical Garden, or MBG, in St. Louis. So he was picked to join a 2002 scouting
