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One of the biggest goals of President Donald Trump's second term was the Education Division, a federal agency that oversees federal law enforcement in schools in 1979. He called the division “a massive job,” and Linda McMahon, who confirmed he would lead the agency on Monday, expressed his hopes to “get out of work.” In an email to the department shortly after her confirmation, McMahon called on staff to “participate in this historic final mission.” She described it as “a last chance to restore the culture of freedom and excellence that has made American education great.”Trump also reportedly plans an…
There’s one group you won’t find joining in the push to redeem alleged child-killer Casey Anthony, following her attempted image rehabilitation in the 2020s: the true crime fan community. As of March 2025, Anthony has joined TikTok in her capacity as a “legal advocate,” and the backlash is strong.That’s because despite Casey Anthony being found not guilty in 2011 of allegedly murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, conventional wisdom holds that she almost certainly was involved in Caylee’s disappearance and death. While the case against her unfolded as an avaricious media circus that portrayed Casey as a callous Orlando party girl,…
Six weeks ago, President Donald Trump was able to say he and his agenda could be trusted to be popular. According to the voting average, his general bragging of support was supported by the data. And although the proportion of Americans who disapproved gradually increased, he still maintained a net positive rating.As Trump prepares to deal with a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening, the country's stocks approve and disapprove the presidency. The share of Americans watching him continues to fall positively. And it seems unlikely he's going to see a boost anytime soon.The president generally enjoys honeymoon periods…
America's fragile parenting system relies heavily on migrant workers. Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants could cripple that.Since 2011, federal guidance has advised immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) agents against enforcement in “sensitive locations” such as hospitals, churches, schools and daycare centers. On his first day back in the office, Trump removed these long-standing protections and marked a major change from his first term as president. Currently – Ice officials have been charged with increasing daily arrests from hundreds to over 1,500, while top immigration agents have been demoted for not banishing people quickly enough – day care centers are standing…
This story appeared on the logoff A daily newsletter that will help you stay informed about the Trump administration without taking over your life in political news. Subscribe here.Welcome to logoff. Today I'm covering another purge at the Department of Justice. There, the Donald Trump administration is revenging against a high-ranking career prosecutor who indicted Trump's allies on January 6th.What's the latest? Reuters reports that the Washington, D.C. secretary on Friday demoted seven high-ranking prosecutors and moved them to entry-level positions to force them to ban them. The demoted ones are as follows:Experienced lawyers deal mostly with misdemeanors and low-level…
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he will include handpicked cryptocurrency tokens in his “US Cryptocurrency Reserve,” but what that actually means, and whether it will actually happen, is almost as clear as muddy.In a truth-social post, Trump instructed his advisors to “move forward” on creating a “crypto-strategic reserve,” saying it would include XRP, Solana and Cardano. In a follow-up post, he added that Bitcoin, Ethereum and “other valuable cryptocurrencies are at the heart of the reserve.”Naturally, the announcement sent the crypto prices (which have been on a downward trend since Trump took office), which were shooting high on…
On a random Tuesday in February, a conservative provocateur and talk radio host made a bold proclamation about the state of the Democratic Party. Donald Trump had won over young men, and nearly a majority of young voters overall in November, because “Democrats, for men, are pussies.”“There are no masculine men in the Democrat Party right now,” Clay Travis, the Trump-supporting sports and politics commentator, said while speaking on a panel hosted at the University of Chicago. “Who’s the most masculine Democrat right now in America? Mayor Pete?”His audience gasped in response. The moderator intervened. And so began a week…
With nearly 150 cases of measles in Texas and New Mexico, last week Texas health officials confirmed their first death in an ongoing outbreak. It is believed that almost all of the infected people have not been vaccinated, but five of them told the Texas Department of Health that they received at least one shot of measles.In 2000, the United States declared measles that had been eradicated. Because the disease has not spread locally (for most of the following years it was linked to travel to countries where the virus is still prevalent), but in recent years, measles outbreaks have…
Finally, when did you feel totally, stupidly, dauntingly and boring? Maybe he'd been suffering for too long in the doctor's office waiting room for 10 minutes. Or I felt my eyes hang in the middle of my philosophy class. Perhaps it was an endless drive, as insisting that your toddler listen to the same song over and over again. Maybe you're very bored right now (in that case, sorry, and I want to get your attention back).Boredom is a common occurrence in decline and the flow of life. James Dunkart, professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Waterloo and…
In the middle of the Caribbean Sea, over 1,000 rhesus macaques live on an island that measures less than a tenth of a mile across. Descendants of a monkey colony imported from India 86 years ago sunbathe, climb trees, and wade in the ocean on Puerto Rico’s Isla de los Monos.The island serves as a 38-acre open-air laboratory, with these semi-wild macaques as subjects. The monkeys offer a tantalizing opportunity for scientists hoping to observe animal behavior as close to the wild as they can get, while also having ready access to the monkeys’ brains, bodies, and genes. That often…