There’s a rubric I’ve been using to maintain perspective on President Donald Trump’s second term: Imagine if the dumbest person in the world and humanity’s biggest asshole were the same person, and that guy was president. It’s a pretty simple lens through which to both view Trump’s lawless, Constitution-shredding rampage of revenge and self-enrichment while
This post first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, gave the state and the nation a
November 01, 2025 12:59 PM ET The Trump administration’s latest attempts to curtail press leaks disallows White House reporters from accessing the inner offices of senior communication officials in the West Wing in order to protect national security secrets. A memo released to the reporters Friday evening addressed from the National Security Council (NSC) to
November 01, 2025 12:03 PM ET New York Attorney General Letitia James is fighting a federal criminal probe over alleged “selective enforcement” in cases she brought against President Donald Trump’s business and the National Rifle Association (NRA), court documents unsealed Friday reveal. James’s effort to block subpoenas issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) touches
October 31, 2025 2:10 PM ET President Donald Trump’s call to scrap the legislative filibuster is likely to fall on deaf ears among Senate Republicans. Trump rattled off two Truth Social posts on Thursday evening urging Republicans to circumvent Democrats’ opposition to ending the 31-day shutdown by eliminating the filibuster, a procedural rule requiring most
J_News_photo – stock.adobe.com Japanese IT supplier managed to grow its UK public sector business last year despite the fallout from the Post Office scandal By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 30 Oct 2025 8:00 Fujitsu grew its UK public sector business over the last 12 months despite widespread criticism for its
Jakub Jirsák – stock.adobe.com Integrated into the national Sehaty app, the AI feature, developed with Lean Business Services and Google Cloud, marks a major step in Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 journey toward smarter, more personalised healthcare By Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly Published: 29 Oct 2025 10:05 Saudi Arabia’s push to transform its healthcare system
Lee Soo Man resisted the title at first. “King of K-pop” sounded too brash, too nightclub-esque — like something you’d see on a neon sign in Itaewon, a nightlife neighborhood in the South Korean capital Seoul once popular with U.S. soldiers and foreign visitors. “I asked them, ‘Couldn’t it be Father of K-pop?’” the 73-year-old
In a major step forward for the foodservice industry, IFMA The Food Away from Home Association has partnered with Starfish – the only neutral traceability network linking all supply-chain systems – to help its members stay ahead of evolving food safety and compliance requirements while realizing new business benefits from data connectivity. IFMA The Food
Alka Sharma, a leading Brand and Marketing Scaling Strategist, influential author, and transformative speaker, will be a featured speaker at MegaSuccess 2025, one of the most anticipated premier entrepreneurial events in the world, set for November 19-23 at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. MegaSuccess is renowned for convening the planet’s sharpest entrepreneurs, billionaires, and industry
