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The Trump campaign can't stop losing election lawsuits....

As his court battles to overturn the election continue to fizzle, President Donald Trump has been grabbing for straws. He......

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has made official the changes it proposed to its naturalization test, and suspicions that it was doing it just to trip up applicants was right on the dot, an immigration policy expert says. "Some of the questi...

In honor of National Native American Heritage Month, take a moment to check out these talented Native American-Owned Businesses on Etsy....

The president has been talking with advisers about how to best time his 2024 announcement to make sure the Republican Party stands behind him....

Here's something to ponder along with your dream team picks for President-elect Joe Biden's Cabinet and top officials: Who should he fire first? There are just so many options, and you can thank Republicans for the fact that Biden will be able to ...

As vice president in 2012, Joe Biden endeared himself to many LGBTQ Americans by endorsing same-sex marriage even before his......

The approach could aid GOP areas at the expense of states with large immigrant populations....

The entire "voter fraud" shtick emanating from the White House is already rancid well beyond its shelf life, but this needs to be pointed out, if it hasn't already. Despite his squealing about "fraud" in the cities of Milwaukee, Detroi...

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ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox . An Arkansas prosecutor has been fired after speaking out against the state's criminal eviction statute...

Despite the best efforts by her Fox & Friends weekend cohosts Will Cain and Pete Hegseth, Jedediah Bila threw cold water on the notion that their frivolous voter fraud cases were going anywhere after a Trump appointed judge practically laughed them out of...

Iran has blamed Israel for the attack, and pledged retaliation....

And, perhaps as a sign that Austrians do indeed have a sense of humor, the town formerly known as Fucking will on January 1 be known as Fugging. "Shortly after news broke of the Fucking decision, the German mountain community of Wank released a statem...

After a season of doubts, in the middle of an ongoing horror, there finally seems to be hope ahead. Not just the hope generated by the election and its outcome, but the hope of vaccines that can finally bring the nation—and the world—out from ...

As the nation has struggled to face the novel coronavirus pandemic, Daily Kos has covered the enormous burden the Trump administration has effectively placed on the shoulders of small business owners and their employees. We know, for example, that Black-o...

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The Trump campaign paid $3 million to recount votes in Milwaukee and Dane counties, which were key to Biden's victory in Wisconsin....

One of the thorniest issues the team that I helped lead at Type Investigations and Reveal News as we compiled domestic-terrorism data from around the nation for our July report on "Domestic Terror in the Age of Trump" was the case of Stephen Paddo...

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Plus: a new story from Future Tense Fiction by Karl Schroeder, author of Stealing Worlds....

The decision, by Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephanos Bibas, was described by The New York Times as "blistering" and a "a complete repudiation" of Trump's effort to halt the certification of Pennsyvlania's certification o...

A headline at HuffPost reads : Donor In Trump's Election 'Fraud' Fight Sues To Snatch Back His $2.5 Million Contribution But the contribution in dispute didn't go directly to Trump, or to an organization created by Trump affiliates. Here&#...

Kpop, short for Korean Pop music, is a worldwide phenomenon of idol culture following musical acts, artists and social media. They are a force and are able to coordindate large scale social media takeovers of hashtags on a scale that no other group has be...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center went to his latest review board hearing with......

A journalist who has reported on the rights of nature movement responds to Karl Schroeder's "The Suicide of Our Troubles."...

As the nation has struggled to face the novel coronavirus pandemic, Daily Kos has covered the enormous burden the Trump administration has effectively placed on the shoulders of small business owners and their employees. We know, for example, that Black-o...

In Karl Schroeder's "The Suicide of Our Troubles," the mercury in a water supply has had enough of itself....

Joe Biden won rapidly diversifying Georgia partly because Asian Americans mobilized to an unprecedented degree. With two critical Senate runoffs approaching, these voters could also boost Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock....

Today in things that should in no way be news, but are, Donald Trump said he would leave the White House if (when) the Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden. Trump took questions from reporters late Thursday afternoon after speaking remote...

Because your mattress matters more than you think....

I'm furious. He thinks I'm overreacting....

After resigning in 2019 following claims that he'd romanced a Russian agent, Patrick Byrne is back and he says he's funding a team of "hackers and cybersleuths" to rescue Trump....

WaPo: Republicans lob accusations of elitism at 'Middle Class Joe' — a sign of the upended politics of populism President-elect Joe Biden, a state-college graduate who was once the poorest man in the U.S. Senate, is facing accusations of eli...

His initial picks seem to make good on his campaign commitment to put in place leaders who look like the country he will preside over....

Cultural institutions have faced hard questions about racial inclusivity for decades. This year, they might finally provide some answers....

The path lies not in legislation but through the deregulation of mifepristone—the only drug the FDA has approved to safely and effectively terminate an early pregnancy....

Slate Money talks Janet Yellen, Simon & Schuster, and United Way Worldwide....

In just a few years, the bank squandered 160 years of consumer goodwill....

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Trade coffee sources their beans from small businesses across the country, and so for Small Biz Saturday, they're discounting they're brews....

The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, showed its continued significance during this particularly difficult year....

A foggy sunrise in Germany, a fiery protest in Guatemala, a strongman contest in Crimea, the ongoing pandemic worldwide, mourning in Argentina for Diego Maradona, and much more....

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Four years ago this month, a trio of humpback whales—two adults and a juvenile, sex unknown—decided to spend several hours hanging out along the western side of Washington State's San Juan Island and vocalizing. No one could see them becau...

If there's one piece of advice people love offering up to low-income folks, it's that you can save money by cooking at home. On the surface, that's understandable—if you prepare your meal at home, you can (hypothetically) cook in bulk, a...