By Cristiano Lima-Strong · The Washington Post (c) 2025 TikTok inched closer to a nationwide shutdown after the Supreme Court did not rule on the ban-or-sale law targeting the app early Wednesday, leaving the platform in limbo with President-elect Donald Trump’s vague pledge to “save” it the last likely refuge. After oral arguments last week, most of […]
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Biden releases 11th-hour plan to lower nicotine in cigarettes
By Rachel Roubein · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Biden administration released a proposal Wednesdayto dramatically reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes, a move that anti-smoking advocates believe would save millions of lives but that threatens the powerful tobacco industry. The Food and Drug Administration’s plan to slash nicotine to minimally or nonaddictive levels represents a last-ditch effort […]
Biden releases 11th-hour plan to lower nicotine in cigarettes
By Rachel Roubein · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Biden administration released a proposal Wednesdayto dramatically reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes, a move that anti-smoking advocates believe would save millions of lives but that threatens the powerful tobacco industry. The Food and Drug Administration’s plan to slash nicotine to minimally or nonaddictive levels represents a last-ditch effort […]
New data tool allows journalists and the public to track ‘wandering cops’ in New Mexico
By Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico A new database launching today gives the public, journalists and policymakers greater insight into police officers in New Mexico who lose their jobs with one agency, sometimes for serious misconduct, and then find work at another. The New Mexico Department of Public Safety in July 2024 launched its own […]
New data tool allows journalists and the public to track ‘wandering cops’ in New Mexico
By Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico A new database launching today gives the public, journalists and policymakers greater insight into police officers in New Mexico who lose their jobs with one agency, sometimes for serious misconduct, and then find work at another. The New Mexico Department of Public Safety in July 2024 launched its own […]
Jack Smith’s subtle indictment of the Supreme Court
By Aaron Blake · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Special counsel Jack Smith’s effort to hold Donald Trump accountable for a wild and ultimately violent attempt to overturn the 2020 election based on lies about voter fraud came to a rather meek conclusion early Tuesday with the release of Smith’s final report. The report breaks little new ground […]
Jack Smith’s subtle indictment of the Supreme Court
By Aaron Blake · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Special counsel Jack Smith’s effort to hold Donald Trump accountable for a wild and ultimately violent attempt to overturn the 2020 election based on lies about voter fraud came to a rather meek conclusion early Tuesday with the release of Smith’s final report. The report breaks little new ground […]
Trump’s legal peril has faded. Not so for some of his allies.
By Patrick Marley · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Donald Trump is walking free from most of the criminal investigations that have dogged him for years. Some allies who promoted his lies about the 2020 election are poised for choice jobs in his administration. And after his inauguration next week, Trump is widely expected to carry out a […]
Trump’s legal peril has faded. Not so for some of his allies.
By Patrick Marley · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Donald Trump is walking free from most of the criminal investigations that have dogged him for years. Some allies who promoted his lies about the 2020 election are poised for choice jobs in his administration. And after his inauguration next week, Trump is widely expected to carry out a […]
Kristi Noem, a homeland security chief hopeful, banned in parts of her state
By Annie Gowen · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The sentencing hearing of a methamphetamine dealer in South Dakota would have been routine except for one detail: Gov. Kristi L. Noem had used his photo to falsely suggest the man was a drug trafficker for Mexican cartels who had hidden out on a reservation. Her action […]