Semafor • Sep 16, 2025
EPA to stop collecting emissions data from polluters
Critics said that without this data, governments can’t identify emission sources — or reduce them.
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Semafor • Sep 16, 2025
Congressional Real Estate Caucus rolls out bipartisan housing plan
The goal is 'to unlock a whole-of-government approach,' Rep. Mark Alford said.
Semafor • Sep 16, 2025
Stopgap spending bill stalls over security funding
House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole told reporters Monday night that leaders would finalize text as soon as 'they figure out what to do on member security.'
Semafor • Sep 15, 2025
House GOP eyes stopgap funding bill to avert shutdown
Republicans aim to continue current spending until around Nov. 20, then negotiate on three Senate-passed bills.
Semafor • Sep 15, 2025
US goes rogue on health policy
While other countries are trying to minimize vaccine skepticism, Washington is defunding research into immunizations.
Mother Jones • Sep 14, 2025
The Data Center Building Boom Is Running Into Local Resistance
This story was originally published by the High Country News in partnership with the Puente News Collaborative and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sunland Park, New Mexico, is not a notably online community. Retirees have settled in mobile homes around the small border town, just over the state line from El Paso. Some don’t own […]
Mother Jones • Sep 13, 2025
Trump’s Immigration Police State Is Growing at Warp Speed
When it passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in June, Congress handed nearly $75 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some $30 billion of that money will be spent on enforcement and deportation—hiring spree incoming—and another $45 billion will go toward new detention centers, including 50 by the end of the year. The OBBB […]
Mother Jones • Sep 13, 2025
Stephen Miller Pours Fuel on the Fire, Again
Subtlety is not one of Stephen Miller’s strong suits. Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, who alternately has been called the administration’s “attack dog” and “the president’s id,” has a well-known penchant for the kind of breathless, overheated language that would make the hackiest of hacks blush. Scroll through his X feed and […]
Semafor • Sep 12, 2025
Trump administration ramps up campaign against EU climate rules
Chris Wright sees methane regulations as an obstacle to fulfilling a $750 billion energy trade deal.
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ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − accused of violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th amendment rights − are testing whether the Constitution can survive
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Congress has exercised minimal oversight over ICE, but that might change
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Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost-saving measure that could risk denying needed care
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Kristi Noem’s Throttling of FEMA Funds Constitutes a Preventable Disaster
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American Reich: Kristi Noem’s DHS is the Department of Homeland Subjugation
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Federal power meets local resistance in Minneapolis – a case study in how federalism staves off authoritarianism
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Report: Education Department’s “Efficiency” Layoffs Cost At Least $28 Million
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Trump Goes Public With Plan to “Take Over” Elections
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Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms
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