An internal White House memo shows that officials on Joe Biden’s staff argued that the president should be physically signing “pardon letters” rather than issuing mass pardons using the president’s…

Another day, another time Sam Stein misrepresents the events of a major news story. Kavanaugh's decision is just him defending racial profiling pic.twitter.com/rTVChRRZRe— Sam Stein (@samstein)…

Extremophiles are a favorite tool of astrobiologists. But not only are they good for understanding the kind of extreme environments that life can survive in, sometimes they are useful as actual tools, creating materials necessary for other life, like oxygen, in those extreme environments. A recent paper from Daniella Billi of the University of Rome Tor Vergata , published in pre-print form in Acta Astronautica, reviews how one particular extremophile fills the role of both useful test subject and useful tool all at once.

It's complicated.

One month after President Donald Trump’s administration effectively took over Washington, DC’s police department, surging federal law enforcement and troops across the capital, crime in the city is down, homeless encampments have been cleared, and hundreds of people accused of being in the US illegally have been detained. But those changes have come at a price. Tourism numbers have declined, some restaurants in the District are hurting for customers, an already maxed-out court...

Where are the Sweathogs today?

Democrats plan to "fight back" against National Guard deployments to blue cities just announced by the Trump admin.