In this photo illustration, the ICEBlock app is displayed on an Apple iPhone on October 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images The creator of ICEBlock, the app used to track local sightings of ICE agents and other law-enforcement authorities, has asked Apple to rescind its decision

A "draft" from The Treasury Department of a $1 commemorative coin that it plans to mint next year. Courtesy: U.S. Treasury Department The Treasury Department is considering minting a $1 coin bearing President Donald Trump's likeness on both sides to honor him and commemorate the United States' 250th birthday next year. A first draft of

GM Hummer EV production in Detroit. Photo by Jeffrey Sauger for General Motors DETROIT — Shares of the Detroit automakers closed higher Friday following an afternoon report that President Donald Trump is considering "significant tariff relief" for the production of vehicles in the U.S. Stocks for General Motors , Ford Motor and Chrysler parent Stellantis

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is beginning to target unaccompanied immigrant children, pressuring them to accept cash payment in exchange for agreeing to be deported, according to a government memo to immigrant aid groups obtained by The Intercept.  The operation — which immigration rights advocates said was called “Freaky Friday,” though ICE denied the name

The Free Press’s Bari Weiss hosts Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at a panel presented by Uber and X on Jan. 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Uber, X, and The Free Press Eoin Higgins is the author of “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voice on the Left.”

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CHICAGO -- CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration will withhold $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects, the White House budget director said Friday, expanding funding fights that have targeted Democratic areas during the government shutdown. The pause affects a long-awaited plan to extend the city’s Red Line train. The money was “put on hold

Here’s a sobering fact: Even if the entire world transitions away from fossil fuels, the way we farm and eat will cause global temperatures to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — the critical threshold set in the Paris Climate Agreement. The further we go above that limit, the more intense the effects of

President Donald Trump announced the latest addition to his personal branding empire this week: TrumpRx, a government website that claims it will offer deeply discounted drugs to many Americans. News of the website’s forthcoming launch was accompanied by an announcement from Pfizer that it would voluntarily reduce the prices it charges the Medicaid program. It

Chair of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 2025. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Jeremy Busby is a writer and activist incarcerated in Texas. In partnership with The Federal Communications Commission this week advanced a proposal for censorship that received far less attention than chair Brendan

On Taylor Swift’s highly-anticipated new album The Life of a Showgirl, track four, Father Figure, includes the late George Michael as one of the credited songwriters. But Swift’s song is not a cover of Michael’s 1987 hit of the same name. Rather, it is an “interpolation”. What does this mean, and how is it different

Perennial Nobel Prize contender Thomas Pynchon’s fourth novel, Vineland (1990) has been loosely adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson as a new film, One Battle After Another. The film is already considered an Oscar contender. Vineland, at its core, is preoccupied with the fate of America in the age of mass media and creeping authoritarianism. Pynchon’s