Nadine Menendez, wife of convicted former Sen. Bob Menendez, is scheduled for sentencing Thursday for her part in the bribery and foreign influence scheme. ... Read full Story
The U.S. Secret Service is under self-review after someone was able to get a gun into a golf club belonging to President Donald Trump and where he was present. ... Read full Story
The Federal Trade Commission announced it has urged healthcare employers and related staffing companies to remove illegal non-compete agreements from contracts. ... Read full Story
Texas A&M University has fired a professor and two administrators following a viral video shot by a student arguing a discussion about gender identity in her class might be illegal. ... Read full Story
A coalition of House lawmakers from both sides of the aisle has voted to repeal laws authorizing the United States' use of force in Iraq in 1991 and 2003, which critics say has been abused by presidents. ... Read full Story
A Florida appeals court has ruled that the state's ban on adults openly carrying firearms in public is unconstitutional, handing gun rights activists a victory. ... Read full Story
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to permit South Carolina to ban transgender students from using the bathroom matching their gender identity as the state appeals rulings that found its law illegal. ... Read full Story
President Donald Trump on Wednesday night blamed the rhetoric of "the radical left" for the assassination of ally Charlie Kirk, vowing to punish those involved in the killing and to crack down on political violence. ... Read full Story
Four students were injured Wednesday after one of them opened fire at a Denver-area high school, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said. ... Read full Story
A multi-U.S. agency sting in Chicago uncovered millions of illegal e-cig vape units worth nearly $90 million in the "largest-ever seizure of this kind." ... Read full Story
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Wednesday banning sales of hemp-based THC products to people under the age of 21 amid an ongoing push for state lawmakers to establish THC regulations. ... Read full Story
Shira Perlmutter is to be reinstated to her role at the Library of Congress as register of copyrights under the legislative branch, the D.C. U.S. Court of Appeals ruled. ... Read full Story
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Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot while at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem and was removed by his security team while bleeding. ... Read full Story
The exit of 300 Korean workers detained in Georgia has been delayed due to "a cause from the U.S. side," according to the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ... Read full Story
The body found week in Los Angeles in the trunk of a Tesla that belonged to singer D4vd has authorities saying it will take time to find out the victim's identity. ... Read full Story
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday filed a cloture motion to force the Senate to vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files to the public. ... Read full Story
Ultra-low cost airline Avelo announced it has ordered 50 new Embraer E-195-E2 planes, with purchase rights for 50 more. The list price is $4.4 billion. ... Read full Story
Democrat James Walkinshaw won in Virginia's solid blue 11th congressional district in an expected win in the bellwether state to succeed the late U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly. ... 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.