A federal judge said Monday that she’ll likely block the Trump administration’s efforts to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding for sexual health education grants. The revelation came as the judge reportedly reprimanded the administration and gave it a basic sex ed lesson from the bench. I’ve written previously on the administration’s bigoted rationale

I thought there was little President Donald Trump could do to surprise me. I was wrong. The New York Times reported Tuesday that “President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.” The two claims were filed in 2023 and 2024 under the

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This is an adapted excerpt from the Oct. 21 episode of “The Briefing with Jen Psaki.” In a jaw-dropping report on Tuesday, The New York Times revealed that Donald Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him roughly $230 million as a settlement for the federal investigations he faced during the Biden administration. The

Reddit filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, along with several other data mining companies, accusing them of stealing the social media platform’s valuable data. Reddit’s lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, said Perplexity and the three other firms it sued — Oxylabs UAB, AWM Proxy, and SerpApi — illegally circumvented Reddit’s digital guardrails by

The first wave of crypto ETFs allowed investors to onboard crypto assets into traditional brokerage accounts – and tax-advantaged retirement accounts. Given the long-term return potential of cryptocurrencies, that’s a win-win. But cryptos are still volatile. Last week’s $19 billion leveraged wipeout in bitcoin surpassed the wipeout at the Covid bottom in March 2020. And