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4+ min ago (239+ words) Donald Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has a plan to help Republicans win the 2026 midterm elections, but a former Barack Obama campaign staffer threw cold water on that idea Sunday. Former Obama campaign advisor Ameshia Cross, who often appears on MSN NOW and its predecessor MSNBC, was asked on the network about Wiles' stated plan to combat the common pattern that Republicans lose when Trump himself isn't on the ballot. According to Wiles', she's going to "put him on the ballot" by making him "campaign like it's 2024 again." But not so fast, according to Cross, who said things won't be that simple. After being asked her take, Cross said, "I don't think Donald Trump is physically able to campaign like it's 2024 again, but all that withstanding, he also has something now that he didn't have against him in 2024." According…...

8+ min ago (78+ words) Hamas has confirmed that Israel killed its senior commander Raed Saad in a strike which killed at least four others. Israel kills senior Hamas commander Raed Saad as Gaza ceasefire strains Hamas has confirmed that Israel killed its senior commander Raed Saad in a strike which killed at least four other people and wounded 25 Palestinians in Gaza. Hamas has called on Trump to compel Israel to abide by the US-brokered ceasefire which Israel has violated continuously....

9+ min ago (147+ words) If you come at the king, you best not miss" is a famous line from the HBO show The Wire about the danger of taking on someone far more powerful than you. Smith isn't being hoisted by her own petard, as she wasn't actually running the show when the law was passed three years ago " although she must regret predecessor Jason Kenney didn't put more effort into the specifics, because I promise not to totally suck if you elect me" seems enough of a lie to do the trick. While the government has insisted that union leaders and leftwing activists are weaponizing" its own legislation against it, petitioners say they're just regular folks unhappy with the way things are going in a province where the measles are making a comeback. [CBC / The Tyee / Wonketariat on Bluesky] I've heard Alberta called…...

10+ min ago (1820+ words) The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the high court. Alabama Deputy Solicitor general Robert Overing approached the podium at the U.S. Supreme Court on a mission: to convince the justices that 55-year-old Joseph Clifton Smith should be put to death. "Nothing in the Eighth Amendment bars the sentence Joseph Smith received for murdering Durk Van Dam nearly 30 years ago," Overing began. Although the landmark 2002 decision in Atkins v. Virginia banned the execution of people with intellectual disabilities, Smith did not qualify. "He didn't come close to proving an IQ of 70 or below." To help Smith escape execution, he argued, the judges plucked his lowest score and rounded down in his favor, then leaned on lesser evidence as proof of his intellectual limitations. "The sentence "Smith's IQ is…...

10+ min ago (241+ words) In "Risk, Discipline," your story in this week's issue, Malcolm and Violet decide to get married. Malcolm, the narrator, is a writer, Violet a physician. It opens with Malcolm describing "a depression so deep" that it was as if "I was pretending to be myself." How do you approach writing a narrator unreliable enough to convey that dissociation but reliable enough to tell the story? It's December, 2020, the first year of the pandemic, and, in New York, the marriage bureaus are closed, so they decide to go upstate for the wedding. What made you focus on this specific time, and how did it shape the story's emotional trajectory? Malcolm and Violet decide to invite a couple: Malcolm's college friend Grant and Chelsea, an artist whose work is sexually transgressive. The dynamics between the two couples create a parallel structure that…...

10+ min ago (609+ words) The cartoon editor revisits the drawings used to illustrate Talk of the Town pieces, by the creator of the comic strip "The Little King." One of my first jobs at the magazine was to flip through these binders and pick decades-old drawings to run alongside some of our timeliest stories. It was astonishing how well these vintage vignettes continued to match the week's news. Sure, over the years hemlines fluctuate; TV replaces radio; Nixon's jowls droop. But something about the drawings' look and tone is ageless. On a micro scale, they display the cheekiness and the reverence for the hyper-specific that make up the magazine's DNA. Soglow was born in Manhattan in 1900, and pretty much never left. He wanted to be an actor but settled for being a cartoonist, and was best known for his syndicated comic "The Little King,…...

11+ min ago (674+ words) President Donald Trump's heated rhetoric against his perceived political enemies has resulted in a blizzard of threats against at least 22 officials on both sides of the aisle in recent weeks," according to an NBC News tally. Among those who've been targeted with threats after being mentioned in social media posts by the president are numerous Democrats, including Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan " but even more Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and over a dozen Indiana state lawmakers." Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine, the AP reports. Save to Favorites An overwhelming majority of U.S. adults are satisfied with their health insurance coverage overall, including most older Americans and those on Medicare and Medicaid," according to a new NBC News" President Trump's…...

11+ min ago (654+ words) An overwhelming majority of U.S. adults are satisfied with their health insurance coverage overall, including most older Americans and those on Medicare and Medicaid," according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll. But there is an undercurrent of frustration in the findings, too, with nearly one-quarter of respondents saying they'd been denied coverage or faced a delay from their insurance in the last two years." President Donald Trump's heated rhetoric against his perceived political enemies has resulted in a blizzard of threats against at least 22 officials on both sides of the aisle in recent" Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine, the AP reports. Save to Favorites President Trump's approval rating remains steadily underwater among adults as he nears the end of his first year back in the White House,…...

21+ min ago (436+ words) Officials, social media users hail bystander who disarms gunman as a hero who potentially saves numerous lives. Bystander disarms Bondi Beach gunman during mass shooting in Sydney A bystander who has been filmed tackling and disarming an assailant during a shooting in which at least 11 people were killed at a Jewish holiday event in Sydney, Australia, has been praised as a hero whose actions may have saved lives. Footage uploaded to social media on Sunday shows a man in a car park running up to a man holding a rifle. He then tackles the armed man, wrestles the rifle away from him and points the weapon back at him. The video then shows the disarmed man losing his footing and backing away towards a bridge where another shooter was located while the bystander places the gun down on the ground....

24+ min ago (313+ words) Supermodel Helena Christensen is never off-duty, even when it comes to charity work (and her latest snapshots have fans doing a double-take)! In case you missed it, on Dec 13, Christensen shared a series of jaw-dropping snapshots to her Instagram (and it was for a good cause)! She shared the photos with the caption reading, "In 2019 I spent time with a team of veterans in South Africa committed to protect threatened wildlife from poachers. It was a life-changing experience learning about and seeing firsthand the incredible work they do to defend Africa's most endangered species. In support of these... Supermodel Helena Christensen is never off-duty, even when it comes to charity work (and her latest snapshots have fans doing a double-take)! The jewelry is sparkling her, brunette hair is blowing in he wind, and fans are marveling as she shows off…...