Politics

Reporting Highlights Foreign Affairs: Thomas Dans has backed taking over Greenland and advocated reestablishing ties with Russia, where he’s long done business — even sharing pro-Kremlin posts. Business Opportunities: As U.S. Arctic Research Commission chair, Dans has championed a Dutch shipbuilder with which he had a business relationship. Scientific Blowback: Tensions over Greenland flared after

On May 24, Donald Trump Jr. was celebrating in the Bahamas, as scantily clad dancers in stilettos and sailor caps performed for him and his guests. It was the last night of his wedding, a lavish, three-day party held across a pair of ultra-exclusive private islands. A five-tier funfetti cake had been airlifted in from

Reporting Highlights Evidence From Britain: A trove of evidence from Britain that became public only after the FBI closed its 9/11 investigation raises questions about a Saudi man who assisted two of the hijackers. Suspicions: Material seized in 2001 from Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi student who had lived in San Diego, intensified suspicions about what

On Friday, the Commerce Department released inflation figures for August, and what they show is … more of the same. View Source Here

The Trump administration is poised to loosen environmental restrictions on oil and gas wells that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to drastically weaken requirements for leak inspections and equipment upgrades at more than 700,000 low-producing “stripper wells,” according to

Five years after the fall of Kabul, this Wall Street Journal opinion documentary investigates the day-to-day process of America’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, told by the people who lived it. View Source Here

Reporting Highlights Toehold Strategy: Lawmakers created voucher programs for children with disabilities as part of a strategy to pave the way for today’s much larger programs open to all students. Closed Doors: Unlike public schools, private ones generally aren’t required to educate students with disabilities. They often don’t. Few Choices: In Florida, home to the

Three years ago, the Defense Department led an ambitious international effort to better protect civilians during combat, a movement built on the bloody lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq. The Pentagon created a network with European partners, driving the creation of shared standards. Civilian harm experts described the moment as a “unique opportunity” for American leadership

Reporting Highlights Increase in Deaths: ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that almost 200 women died after an ectopic pregnancy from 2020 to 2025, compared with about 100 in the previous six years.  Delays in Care: Abortion bans make exceptions for ectopic pregnancies, but getting a definitive diagnosis can mean waiting days or even weeks,

Before I joined ProPublica in 2021, I had spent a year writing about a Georgia prison physician named Carlo Musso, one of the rare doctors who’d openly talked about his role in lethal injections. After he stepped away from that work, I wanted to know who replaced him, so I filed open records requests for

Reporting Highlights A New Model: Alpha School is a fast-growing chain of AI-driven private schools that claim academics take up only two hours of the day. Repeated Rejections: Texas is one of at least nine states that have rejected Alpha School’s pitch to open a publicly funded charter school. A Pivot: But after the state

Over the “strongest possible” objections from the federal prosecutor handling the case, leaders at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.  The agent, 52-year-old Christian Castro, allegedly shot Julio Cesar