Elon Musk is challenging Justice Alexander de Moraes, a Brazilian judge, who has reportedly applied massive fines, threatened to arrest X employees, and threatened to cut off access to the app in Brazil. “We will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there. But principles matter more than profit,” Musk posted on X. The judge has allegedly already jailed people without trial for posting threats on social media and has unilaterally blocked dozens of accounts...
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. O.J. Simpson gripped the nation’s attention for a final time Thursday. As breaking news banners and push alerts crashed onto screens from coast to coast, stunning millions with news of the former National Football League star’s death, the moment produced one last Simpson-centric collective event for the national consciousness....
Jury selection began Monday in the first of former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases to go to trial, a case legal experts say is the Read More
Joan Walsh If you leave it up to the states, bad things will happen to women. That’s why rising numbers of voters are embracing broad abortion protections.
The prime minister of Japan, Kishida Fumio, is keeping a laser-like eye on
President Joe Biden has been on both sides of America’s sometimes violent discussion on race. And he was wrong both times. In the 1970s, as an influential East Coast senator, he called for a constitutional amendment to ban busing. “That, to me, is the most racist concept you can come up with. What it says […]
The United States will cross a historic threshold on Monday when for the first time a former president goes on criminal trial in a case laced with fateful significance because Donald Trump could be back in the Oval Office next year. When the presumptive GOP nominee walks into court for the start of jury selection, he and the country will enter a new state of reality as legal and political worlds collide in a trial almost guaranteed to deepen Americans’ bitter ideological estrangement. The trial,...
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — The United States will cross a historic threshold on Monday when for the first time a former president goes on criminal trial in a case laced with fateful significance because Donald Trump could be back in the Oval Office next year. When the presumptive GOP nominee walks into
Former President Donald Trump’s impromptu trips to fast-food restaurants have gone viral, showcasing his rising popularity with communities that have soured on President Biden.
The Republican National Committee last week sent out a scripted call to voters’ phones on behalf of new co-chair Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, saying Democrats committed “massive fraud” in the 2020 election. CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski laid out the details in a KFile report.
Last week, when Donald Trump started teasing a big abortion announcement, it felt similar to what he used to do with the famous “infrastructure week” — but about women’s bodies. For any of us who’ve even remotely followed Trump’s many different stances on abortion, trust me when I say none of us were holding our breath. The former president, whose Supreme Court nominations while in office inarguably enabled Roe to be struck down and women’s reproductive rights rolled back, has been wildly...
Former President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to a Manhattan bodega on Tuesday, where he met with Jose Alba, a worker who was cleared of murder charges after stabbing an ex-con in self-defense. Trump received a warm welcome from the crowd, who chanted “four more years” and cheered his name. Alba’s case had sparked […]