Pets may run many human households, but when tax season comes, they don’t count—no matter how dependent on you they are. A lawsuit filed by Amanda Reynolds seeks to change that.

Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.

As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border” set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts causing turmoil in Chicago and elsewhere, he sees himself as the good guy. Not everyone agrees.

“This isn’t a new phenomenon, and we’re going to get to a point where there’s [more] people like myself who survived two of these,” student Zoe Weissman said

I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and would like to believe conservatism wasn’t always thus, but I’m beginning to wonder. Was the virus from which today’s bigotry sprang lying dormant in us back then, like chickenpox leading to shingles? The moral herpes virus? Was it like a recessive gene long buried in our ancestral DNA that suddenly got switched on and has become dominant?

The outbreak shows no signs of slowing, likely because of the affected area’s “lower-than-hoped-for vaccination coverage,” a state health official said.

National Labor Relations Board, the federal watchdog for workers’ rights, has been rendered toothless as employees grapple with corporations

Congressman and activists warn of risks to citizen-journalist if returned to China

Two U.S. service members and one U.S. civilian were killed Saturday after an ambush by an ISIS gunman in central Syria, U.S. Central Command said. Three other service members were injured.

The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.

President Donald Trump’s administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not.

“It’s basically a good cop, bad cop arrangement,” says Alexander Hueter, self-proclaimed Überkrampus of Salzburg’s annual Krampus Run, an event when hundreds of Krampuses are let loose throughout the old town of Salzburg, where they terrorize children, adults, and anyone within the range of a swat from their birch branch switches they carry.

Government commissioner Jean Ernest Muscadin’s official duties are to prosecute crimes — but he’s been accused of summarily killing dozens of purported gang members himself

The Guardian has learned that two former Doge officials – once assigned to Elon Musk’s effort to slash government and fire federal workers in bulk – are leading the group’s conversations about humanitarian assistance and the postwar reconstruction of Gaza. They have circulated slide decks with detailed plans for logistics operations, including prices, financial projections and the locations of potential warehouses.

“Most importantly, I will be meeting with envoys of President Trump, and there will also be meetings with our European partners, with many leaders, concerning the foundation of peace — a political agreement to end the war,” Zelenskyy said in an address to the nation late Saturday.

On NATO, Zelenskyy described Ukraine’s current inability to join the alliance as a major compromise already made. While NATO membership was Kyiv’s preferred path to security, opposition from some partners in the U.S. and Europe has shifted discussions toward bilateral security guarantees. These would include Article Five–like commitments from the U.S. and additional guarantees from European partners, Canada, Japan, and others.

Gunshots ripped through a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, killing at least 12 people

The renewed discussion about a reform of the German Buildings Energy Act (GEG) threatens to reinforce the impression that central energy policy directions in Germany are permanently up for grabs. In the process, it is often overlooked that the existing law provides a solid foundation for the decarbonization of the building sector. Its fundamental architecture — the gradual phase-out of fossil heating systems and the focus on climate-friendly alternatives — is correct and aligns with both the state of energy economics research and international developments. The most urgent task is therefore not a fundamental overhaul of the law, but the creation of political stability.

MS-13 gang members told Hondurans to vote for the Trump-backed right-wing candidate or “we’ll kill you and your whole fucking family.”

Leo was asked about the U.S. peace proposal and the seeming sidelining of European powers in the process.

Zionism turned the moral of the Hanukkah story on its head to praise militarism. In truth, it is a holiday of peace.

When Chileans head to the polls on Sunday, they face a choice between far-right José Antonio Kast, running for president for the third time and currently the favorite in polls, and left-wing Jeannette Jara, a Communist Party member and former labor minister.