Air traffic control staffing issues are delaying flights for a second straight day at numerous U.S. airports as the government shutdown reaches its seventh day, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a notice on Tuesday. More than 3,000 flights have been delayed, according to flight tracking data, as staffing shortages have impacted a widening number of airports, including Houston, Nashville, Dallas, Chicago O'Hare and Newark.

The FBI has shut down a group tasked with investigating public corruption and fired several agents, FBI Director Kash Patel said Tuesday. Why it matters: The firings come after a Monday report from Fox News that indicated agents had monitored communications from nearly a dozen Republican senators as part of former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Last week, a joke familiar from X circulated on rival platform Bluesky: “(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??” It was obviously a jab at the moral intensity that now seems to define the site, and indeed much of the rest of the social media landscape. On most platforms such a joke might go viral for a day then fade. On Bluesky, it metastasised into something resembling a crisis.

Virginia Democratic Attorney General candidate Jay Jones claims he’s running for office “to protect Virginia families.” That slogan comes with an unwritten asterisk: to protect *left-wing Virginia families. 

Senate Republicans on Tuesday confirmed a second bloc of President Trump’s nominees, cementing 107 into place after changing the rules last month to grease the skids and overcome Democratic gridlock. Senators voted 51-47 on the package along party lines.

A lot of people on the left love to criticize Ezra Klein. I’m not one of those people. To be clear, I do criticize him, but I genuinely don’t relish doing so. I have, at times over the years, been a real fan of his work. He’s proven willing to take courageous stands, and he’s got real pull. As The New Yorker’s David Remnick said in a recent interview with the New York Times columnist and podcast host, Klein “wields a great deal of influence among...

Human-caused global warming is disrupting the global water cycle in ways that could bring severe water scarcity sooner than expected, according to a new study. The research identifies the potential onset of extreme shortages, referred to as “Day Zero Droughts," within the next decade in several parts of the world.

Public data show that the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, under Larry Krasner, may be leveraging violence prevention grants for political capital, raising troubling questions about transparency and accountability, especially surrounding the surge in funding to so-called “violence interrupters.” These groups,  composed of faith-based organizations, nonprofits led by former felons, and other community groups that promise to use their roots in the community to intervene in “beefs”...

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Failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris went on a drunk tirade Monday, warning that the Trump administration has been gaslighting liberals into thinking they’re crazy, when the admin are instead the crazy “motha fuckas.” The [...] The post Intoxicated Kamala Harris Blasts Trump Admin: “These Motheraf*ckas Are Crazy!” appeared first on The People's Voice.