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Under the chief justice, the US supreme court has bolstered authoritarian agendas while undercutting the voice of voters

A record number of Colorado children died in 2024 as a result of domestic violence, despite a statewide reduction in overall homicide.

American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the nation’s founding. Chief among them is the “pick one” plurality voting system – also called winner-take-all – used to elect nearly all of the 520,000 government officials in the United States.

Parenthood is already expensive, but a new global study shows that things could get tougher for parents. The annual cost of raising a family in the United States could top $82,000 by 2035, according to Remitly's Global Family Inflation Index. 

I'm sure Texas ultra-MAGAs will rush to vote for a non-Texan Colombian immigrant...

The figure comes as the UN reports a ‘devastating’ collapse of HIV prevention services around the world

Despite the speed at which it is progressing, AI is getting far too little discussion in Congress, the media and within the general population. That has got to change

Admiral Bradley faces war crime allegations after ordering a lethal strike on shipwrecked men, exposing tensions between US policy and international law.

The Supreme Court’s power to nullify legislative and executive acts is inherent in the Constitution.

COMMENT: All hopes were on Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff’s trip to Moscow, but a breakthrough in peace talks was never going to happen with a man who has repeatedly taken Russia’s side, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

The site isn’t exposing misleading reporting – it’s revealing the bubble Trump increasingly inhabits