Recent Supreme Court decisions have eased the way for states to enact more partisan gerrymanders. Now legislatures are racing to redraw their congressional maps in rare mid-decade redistricting efforts that may reconfigure the calculus of who will win the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives after the midterm elections this November.These endeavors were inspiredContinue Reading
Today, more than 325 organizations including labor unions, advocates for seniors and people with disabilities, women’s rights organizations, and more, released an open letter to those seeking to reform the health care system, laying out why now is the time for Medicare for All. The letter is led by PublicContinue Reading
Peru’s presidential runoff is too close to call as ballots continue to be counted from Sunday’s election between Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, and leftist lawmaker Roberto Sánchez. Peruvian election officials say final results could take up to a month to confirm. Peruvian economist and public policyContinue Reading
NASA/Lori Losey On June 5, 2026, NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supersonic capabilities later this year. NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less took off and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, reaching a top speed of approximately Mach 1.1 (713 mph). The flightContinue Reading
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Swift Boost Mission Boost Home Timeline Cast News Press Kit The Cast About Swift The Neil Gehrels’ Swift Observatory is NASA’s astrophysics multitool, capable of quickly observing a wide range of cosmic objects in visible, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray light. It launched as the Swift Gamma-ray Observatory on Nov. 20,Continue Reading
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Israel and Iran traded fire on Monday, all but derailing a brittle two-month ceasefire., Read MoreContinue Reading
Gold just hit its lowest point of 2src26, and the institutions that called the bull run are not flinching. It was triggered by the latest jobs report: the US economy added 172,srcsrcsrc jobs in May, nearly double the 85,srcsrcsrc analysts had forecast. That single number sent the dollar higher…Continue Reading
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Coming of age in the early ’90s in a small city in southeastern Wisconsin meant growing up in a time and a place when no one said “gay” (or “lesbian” or “bisexual” or “transgender” or “non-binary” or any other part of the LGBTQ+ community), and the only time you heardContinue Reading
Often, when Graham Platner comes up (which is too often), my mind drifts to Claire McCaskill. The current MS NOW analyst was the last Democrat to represent Missouri in the Senate. Notably, she lost in 2018 to Josh Hawley, the guy who’d be playing the Geico Gecko in German adsContinue Reading
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer , a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook, X, and Bluesky. Rock band logos stickered the walls and railings in the dim light of the Paper Tiger, the grungy San Antonio venue with aContinue Reading