18+ min ago   (1696+ words) Opaque contracts and enormous windfalls are buttressing the buildout of ICE jails and their shadowy operators. Last summer, business was looking bad for hotshot Boston developer James Grossmann. His flashy new construction company, Rise Construction Management, had begun to spiral…...

1+ hour, 26+ min ago   (814+ words) The Stevens campaign has already faced scrutiny over some of her backers’ racist and Islamophobic messaging. On Thursday, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Michigan) posted a bizarre and racist rant against opponent Abdul El-Sayed over his criticisms of AIPAC — even as Stevens’s…...

2+ hour, 54+ min ago   (454+ words) The spending will likely target “get out the vote” efforts for Republican candidates in multiple House and Senate races. Multibillionaire Elon Musk has authorized his super political action committee (PAC) to spend millions of dollars in this year’s midterm races,…...

4+ hour, 59+ min ago   (1517+ words) Communities fighting data centers refuse to be sites for extraction that help megabillionaires purchase more mansions. The world’s top megabillionaires — a list dominated by Big Tech and Wall Street barons — enjoy a gamut of luxuries that are unfathomable for most…...

21+ hour, 34+ min ago   (415+ words) A watermark indicated that the map was made using AI. The U.S. State Department presented a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference this week in which every country was mislabelled and its borders jumbled. The map, as first reported…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (581+ words) Nearly 60 percent of respondents said they’d go for anyone other than him if the Senate race were today. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) is so unpopular that he would lose his hypothetical re-election by nearly 20 points to a generic “someone else…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (645+ words) The Israeli prime minister vowed that he will still visit New York City for the upcoming UN meeting. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he travels with Israeli “special forces” in the event that he is arrested…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (664+ words) The remark comes amid a rise in Islamophobic attacks on Mamdani ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Alabama) has called for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to be imprisoned in the notorious Guantanámo Bay torture camp,…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (430+ words) The latest threat of escalation comes as the U.S. announced joint strikes with Saudi Arabia on Iraq. The threat was in response to Iran firing missiles at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, U.S. Central Command’s (CENTCOM) headquarters in the country....

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (569+ words) Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, justified the change by citing “stabilizing” markets. On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced its plans to end a subsidy program for Medicare Part D, which has helped lower prescription drug…...