The U.S. The Department of Transportation ordered Delta and Aeromexico to dismantle their joint venture that allows them to make flights between the U.S. and Mexico by Jan. 1. ... Read full Story
The State Department is revoking the visas of non-citizens in the United States "celebrating" the shooting death of conservative provocateur and activist Charlie Kirk. ... Read full Story
President Donald Trump on Monday night added U.S. ally Colombia to a list of countries failing to live up to their counter-narcotic obligations. ... Read full Story
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Monday to deploy U.S. National Guard troops into Tennessee to "restore law and order" in the city of Memphis. ... Read full Story
North Carolina is requesting an additional $13.5 billion from the federal government nearly one year after Hurricane Helene ravaged the western part of the state. ... Read full Story
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is targeting facial hair to establish a new "grooming standard" in the military that is "clean shaven and neat in presentation." ... Read full Story
Milan said he will take a leave of absence from his job as White House economics adviser while serving on the Fed, an arrangement criticized by Democrats. ... Read full Story
The U.S. State Department marked the third anniversary of the death of Mahsa Zhina Amini, a young Iranian woman arrested and beaten by Iran's morality police. ... Read full Story
Vice President JD Vance hosted a two-hour episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show" Monday from the White House to honor his friend who was assassinated on Thursday. ... Read full Story
It's time to start thinking about what you want Santa Claus to bring you this year. If you already know, you can write a letter and send it via USPS. ... Read full Story
Jay-Z and rapper Meek Mill helped raise more than $20 million this weekend for criminal justice reform at their nonprofit REFORM Alliance gala in Atlantic City. ... Read full Story
Trump's post announcing the strike left out many details but called it a warning against drug cartels as tension escalate with the Venezuelan government. ... Read full Story
A teen girl is dead after being propositioned by a drunk New York City man now charged with her murder after hitting three people with his car on purpose, according to prosecutors. ... Read full Story
Alphabet, the holding company for the search giant, is now one of four tech giants with the valuation following a mostly favorable anti-trust ruling earlier. ... Read full Story
The U.S. DOJ Monday said it filed suit against Uber Technologies for denying rides to those who use service dogs or use mobility devices such as a wheelchair. ... Read full Story
Two Chinese nationals and ex-Ostin Tech execs could spend decades in jail for targeting U.S. investors in a predatory "pump-and-dump" scheme to rake in millions. ... Read full Story
The lawsuit from the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey accuses the Trump administration of violating the Constitution and civil service protections. ... Read full Story
President Donald Trump threatened to take over Washington, D.C., policing again over Mayor Muriel Bowser's refusal to allow officers to cooperate with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents in the district. ... Read full Story
U.S. border agents in Texas uncovered an additional $16 million worth of meth only weeks after $50 of the illegal drug was discovered at America's southern border. ... Read full Story
“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.