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The surveillance tech giant Palantir’s products have always been “essentially progressive,” its founder Alex Karp said Wednesday. Karp’s company won hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts under Donald Trump’s second term, soaring past the billion-dollar quarterly revenue mark by working with ICE to track and monitor immigrants and building AI systems for the US military. Karp has been known to praise Trump’s entrepreneurial instincts and crow about how Palantir’

This article has been republished from Autonomy News, a worker-owned publication covering reproductive rights and justice. Follow Autonomy News on Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, and LinkedIn. An anti-abortion operative is moving up the ranks at the Department of Health and Human Services. Natalie Dodson, a contributor to Project 2025, was promoted in October to counselor in the Immediate Office of the Secretary, according to her LinkedIn profile. That means she is in a positio

Amid an ever-expanding scandal and plunging shares, Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO. The ouster of one of the most powerful figures in artificial intelligence comes after Huang admitted to an extramarital affair involving a woman the US government has identified as a possible spy for the Chinese government, as well as a subsequent damning report that he had carried out an affair with a direct report. Yet, amid tanking stock prices, the lockstep support Huang enjoys with some of the wo

Jensen Huang resigned as president and CEO of Nvidia this morning, leaving behind a pile of questions that promise to get even messier than the zoning fights over the data centers his chips helped turn into the most unwelcome neighbors in America. Despite still having President Donald Trump’s ardent support, Huang resigned after two extramarital affairs came to light. One was with a woman who was later identified as a possible Chinese spy. The other was with a vice president at Nvidia.

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. ​ Alan Armstrong of Oklahoma entered the U.S. Senate to fill a vacancy in March with a clear priority: pass permitting reform that he argued was necessary based on his experience leading a major natural gas pipeline company. Now, as he prepares to leave office, that goal is within reach—with big potential benefits for the company and him personall

Narrowly dodging impeachment yesterday might have put Pete Hegseth in too chipper a mood. After a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Hegseth posed for photos in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with a group that included his wife, Jennifer, and several other members of his staff. But when loud laughter and chatter from their group rang out from the top of the steps, the sentinel on patrol turned and forcefully rebuked them: “All visitors will maintain an atmosphere

For the closing ad of his US Senate campaign, Democrat Scott Colom stood in the driveway of the house that once belonged to Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who was assassinated by a white supremacist in 1963 while holding T-shirts that said “Jim Crow Must Go.” “He was killed for helping Mississippians vote,” said Colom. “On Tuesday, use your vote and honor everyone who died for that right.”  Medgar Evers was killed in his driveway because he refused to accept a Mississippi wher

The White House on Wednesday threatened Democrats with criminal investigations for talking about investigating Trump. Will Scharf, the White House counsel, wrote to remind incoming House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) about what he called the Constitution’s “foundational limits.” “These principles require Congress to identify a legitimate legislative purpose underlying its investigative acts,” he wrote. “Failure to do so in this conte

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. ​ China is leading the world in moving away from fossil fuels, and the rest of the globe—including the United States—must now follow, former US Secretary of State John Kerry has told The Guardian, as Cop watchers wonder exactly how China is going to approach this year’s climate summit. As Cop31 opens—this year the climate conference is in Turkey—there is

On the 250th anniversary of the United States, as temperatures in Philadelphia climbed high enough to warp sneaker rubber, Michael McPhearson marched. The city had canceled its official parade due to extreme heat. But McPhearson, a 62-year-old Gulf War veteran, was undeterred. He had traveled across the country from Seattle to march alongside more than 500 of his fellow veterans, active-duty service members, and military families. They gathered near Independence Hall—America’s birthplace—b

The world’s biggest climate conference kicked off today in Antalya, Turkey, a country known for growing political repression. Under an unusual compromise, Turkey is hosting, but Australia’s government will preside over negotiations among more than 190 nations seeking to address the climate crisis. And for the third year in a row, one problem underscores all the others: Why can’t anyone say “fossil fuels”? For the next two weeks, delegates from all over the world—except, notably, the Uni

Eastern Kentucky Democrats used to brag that when the 1972 results came in, Richard Nixon had won nearly everywhere except for Massachusetts and Floyd County. It’s been a long, long way down for Appalachian and rural Democrats since then. On Tuesday—as Dems made massive gains nearly everywhere in the country—they quietly lost the state House seat based in Floyd County, and with it, their very last rural representation in the Kentucky General Assembly. It won’t matter much for the political ba

In 2021, Kate Dineen was standing in her kitchen in Boston when her doctor told her over Zoom that her son had experienced a catastrophic stroke in utero. There was only a 50 percent chance the baby would survive after birth, with zero chance of a healthy outcome. Dineen was devastated; she’d previously had a miscarriage and anxiously tracked pregnancy milestones. Still, the decision about what to do next was clear to her and her husband, she told me: “We felt motivated to protect our son from w

Just as day follows night and spring follows winter, one of the most inevitable occurrences in American life has begun again: Donald Trump is baselessly complaining about voter fraud following an election he did not win. After a strangely muted early reaction, a pledge to accept the results and work with Democrats, and then some furious posts on TruthSocial over the weekend, the president finally said explicitly that he doesn’t trust the election’s outcome. The fact that he would do so was

How will Stephen Miller, the public face of some of President Donald Trump’s cruelest policies, operate in his new role as White House chief of staff? One likely clue is in Miller’s apparent obsession with the mobster characters in movies such as Goodfellas and Casino, a fixation he reportedly has held since childhood. The obsession runs so deep that, as a teen and into adulthood, Miller reportedly had a habit of wearing the whole get-up: gold pinky ring, polo shirts, formal pants, a

Now that the most historic midterm election in memory is almost over, some of the more mundane, and yet potentially significant, issues in the new political landscape are emerging. One of them—far less dramatic than a Blue Texas, the first Black woman Governor, and the “epic fail” of Republican gerrymandering—is a controversial permitting reform deal that has the potential to shape the trajectory of the US energy infrastructure buildout for decades to come. Should this measure pass, it could als

Two days after Election Day, Laura Loomer, a conspiracy theorist and proud Islamophobe who has served as one of President Donald Trump’s most fervent and influential backers, was in a reflective mood. “I just need to step back, recharge, refocus, and be present in my own life and my own mind with peace and clarity for a little while,” she announced on X, saying she’d decided to suspend her twice-weekly livestream, “Loomer Unleashed,” to focus on her upcoming wedding and what she called “a health

Two days after Election Day, Laura Loomer, a conspiracy theorist and proud Islamophobe who has served as one of President Donald Trump’s most fervent and influential backers, was in a reflective mood. “I just need to step back, recharge, refocus, and be present in my own life and my own mind with peace and clarity for a little while,” she announced on X, saying she’d decided to suspend her twice-weekly livestream, “Loomer Unleashed,” to focus on her upcoming wedding and what she called “a health

For a few very strange days this week, President Trump didn’t publicly acknowledge the Republican Party’s catastrophic losses in the midterm elections. Instead, the day after the election, he took journalists on a surprise tour of his under-construction White House ballroom where he only briefly answered an election-related question, about Vice President JD Vance’s assertion that the Iran war had hurt Republicans in the midterms. (“I think it’s largely true because it drove the gasoline up a lit

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It is part of a series The Dream That Oil Built, which explores the connections between climate change, fossil fuels, and the American Dream.​ To Sierra Isley, the American Dream brings to mind a home ringed by a white picket fence. “The house in the suburbs is just what you’re taught growing up,” the 26-year-old said. “You know, that’s what you see on TV.” W