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Republicans won the 2024 election through a strategy that included an enormous number of podcast appearances. Now, Democrats are debating their future election strategy, and a lot of the discussion is taking place on podcasts. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut has been talking for months on NPR and elsewhere about a Democratic party that’s more populist–attacking parts of the political system that don’t work for most people, and more loudly pushing back against the Trump administration. Rahm Emanuel, a longtime party leader, went on Megyn Kelly’s podcast and rejected some party orthodoxy on social issues. The authors Ezra Klein and…

An inmate was mistakenly released last week from the same New Orleans jail that was the scene of a brazen breakout in May, officials said.Officials at an Orleans Parish correctional facility said they accidentally released 30-year-old Khalil Bryan, who was being held on a warrant for aggravated assault with a firearm, domestic abuse, child endangerment and home invasion. He has a criminal history that includes burglary, assault and drug violations.The Orleans Parish sheriff said that Bryan’s release was a clerical error because another inmate scheduled for release had a similar last name.”The mistaken release of Khalil Bryan was a serious…

July 28, 2025 The administration knows that subduing history as it is doing works to keep people of color in this country disunited and at odds with each other. Ad Policy A community member holds a candle by the “Say Their Names” art installation cemetery with headstones representing Black people killed by police, during a vigil marking the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death, at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2025.(Kerem Yucel / Getty Images) Reading Candacy Taylor’s Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel, I ran across this absurd remnant: In…

A child developed a rash after he was prevented from changing his underwear for four days. A little boy, bored and overcome with despair, began hitting himself in the head. A child with autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder was forced to go without his medication, despite his mother’s pleas. “I heard one officer say about us ‘they smell like sh–,'” one detained person recounted in a federal court filing. “And another officer responded, ‘They are sh–.'”Attorneys for immigrant children collected these stories, and more, from youth and families detained in what they called “prison-like” settings across the U.S. from March through June,…

Two people were found dead along a walking trail in a state park in Arkansas, authorities said Sunday.A 43-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman were found dead at Devil’s Den State Park in Washington County, according to the Arkansas State Police. Its criminal investigation unit is handling what it calls a “suspected homicide.”The suspect is a white male wearing dark shorts, a dark tank top and weight-lifting type gloves. He was seen driving toward a park exit in a black, four-door sedan whose license plate may have been covered by electrical or duct tape.The vehicle may have been traveling on…

Elva Etienne/Getty Images/Moment RF ST. PAUL, Minn. — Olivia Kanavati might think about social media more than she uses it. The 17-year-old from a Twin Cities suburb uses an app that tracks how many times a day she opens social media on her phone. Before she can log on, it prompts her to take a deep breath and offers her an inspirational quote. Beginning next summer, any Minnesotan using social media will get a pop-up warning before they log on. Unlike Kanavati’s app, the label they’ll encounter will ask users to acknowledge that prolonged social media use can pose a…

White House budget official Russell Vought, one of the authors of Project 2025, indicated Sunday that President Trump’s focus on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is because the president wants lower interest rates, not because it is one of the mentioned targets of an overhaul in the conservative blueprint.”I don’t even know what that chapter says,” Vought, the Office of Budget and Management director, said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” when talking about Project 2025 and the Federal Reserve. “All I know, in terms of the president, the president has run on an agenda. He’s been very clear…

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on during a news conference at the USDA headquarters in Washington, D.C., on July 14. Top medical groups are alarmed by a report that Kennedy may remove another advisory panel. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may soon dismiss the members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an advisory panel of primary care experts, raising “deep concern” from the American Medical Association and other top medical groups. The plan was first…

When FBI agents arrived outside William Spearman’s home in the quiet suburb of Madison, Alabama, in November 2022, they were prepared for danger.   Their search warrant was so important to the bureau that it was approved by the FBI director himself. When the agents breached Spearman’s door with tactical explosives, Spearman fought back, tussling with the agents as three of his handguns remained barely out of reach. The FBI managed to handcuff and arrest Spearman, a high-value arrest, in what a top Justice Department official called “one of the most successful” prosecutions of its kind.Spearman went by the nickname “Boss”…