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https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article274380535.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ralph-yarl-kansas-city-teen-shooting-wrong-house/ High school student Ralph Yarl went to pick up his little brothers from their friend's house and mixed up 115th St and 115th Ter. He knocked on the...

Putin annexes 4 occupied regions; Ukraine applies to join NATO (nbcnews.com) Major escalation in the conflict, with Russia claiming that any attacks on the newly-annexed territories (i.e. by Ukraine attempting to reclaim them) would be considered direct attacks on Russia. Given Russia's...

U.S. Attorney Who Investigated Trump Associates Is Abruptly Ousted His previous accomplishments include securing a guilty plea from Michael Cohen, obtaining indictments against Parnas and Fruman (Rudy Giuliani's Ukrainian associates), and investigating Trump's businesses based on information...

With his firing of the State Department Inspector General on Friday, Trump continues his pattern of undermining, removing, or otherwise rendering impotent Executive Branch oversight bodies. In the last two months, he has fired four Inspector Generals: Michael Atkinson - Intelligence Community...

Trump is reducing a planned 2.5% federal pay increase to 1%, citing a “national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare” as justification. So which is it - is our economy the best its ever been, or are we facing "serious economic conditions"? Trump Cuts Scheduled...

This kind of got buried in the craziness of the past week, but last Wednesday, Bill Barr released a memo laying out DOJ guidelines for investigations during the 2020 election process. http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/barr_memo_200205.pdf This is one of those things that sounds great on...

President Trump recently pardoned Lt. Michael Behenna, convicted of killing an Iraqi prisoner, and appears to be preparing to pardon several others convicted or accused of similar acts. This undermines the UCMJ - under which all but the civilian contractors were charged - as well as damages our...

McConnell blasts House bill that makes Election Day a federal holiday The bill makes election day a federal holiday and allows federal workers to take up to six days of leave for training and work at polling places. (Full text here: Text - H.R.1 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): For the People Act...

The article is from The Atlantic, which may scare off some of the more conservative posters on this forum, but it's written by a fellow of the Brookings Institution who has known Kavanaugh for a long time and often spoken highly of him. Most of the points in it have been made in various places...

Link is to Maddow, but the source is Senator Merkley and DHS has confirmed that the transfers took place. This comes right at the start of hurricane season, with one currently bearing down on the Carolinas. While legal, this seems extraordinarily unwise...

Link to the study: https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/blahous-costs-medicare-mercatus-working-paper-v1_1.pdf\ This was funded by the Koch brothers and the author is a noted conservative/libertarian researcher with the Mercatus Institute. Basically, he shows that while Medicare For All will...

EDIT: This was apparently an audio issue and not an intentional omission. See reporting from the Washington Post...

Funny how things like this become relevant again...

Got my issue announcement for GSA (Geological Society of America) Today and noticed that the article for this month was titled "The Evolution of Creationism." It's an interesting article that looks at the changes in creationist thought over the past 400 years or so. Not much that hasn't been...