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Closing arguments began this morning in a Las Vegas courtroom, roughly thirty years after Tupac Shakur was shot at a red light near the Strip and died six days later at twenty-five years old. Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, is the first and only person ever charged in the case. He has pleaded not guilty. Twelve jurors, ten women and six men, will decide. Read More

If you have been on the internet this summer, you know the story. Immigration enforcement collapsed. The raids stopped. The administration lost its nerve after the winter, went quiet, and folded. Read More

The line to get into Plymouth County Superior Court this morning reached the parking lot. Not one empty seat inside. Twenty-two days of testimony came down to two hours of closing arguments, one hour to each side, and then Judge William Sullivan finished reading the law aloud and sent the jury out at 12:34 p.m. Read More

For six years, Americans who raised concerns about Antifa were handed the same answer, delivered slowly, as though to a child. Antifa is not an organization. It has no leaders, no membership, no structure. It is an idea. On Tuesday the State Department sanctioned the idea's IT department. Read More

Closing arguments in the Lindsay Clancy trial are expected in Plymouth Superior Court today or tomorrow. Twenty days of testimony end this week, and then twelve people in Massachusetts take custody of a question the rest of the country has been arguing about for three years. Read More

Jed York, who has run the San Francisco 49ers since 2008, was arrested Sunday morning in East Palestine, Ohio. The original charge was engaging in prostitution, a first-degree misdemeanor, along with a second first-degree misdemeanor for possessing criminal tools. He posted a five thousand dollar bond. Read More

Matt Calkins spent eleven years as a sports columnist at the Seattle Times. On Thursday he quit, and the reason he quit is the most Seattle thing that has ever happened. Read More

In 2021, the Minnesota Department of Human Services named Salman Ahmed Elmi an Outstanding Refugee and handed him an Entrepreneurship Award. There was a certificate. There was a plaque. There was, presumably, a small ceremony where someone in a lanyard said the words "the American dream" without irony. Read More

David Morens, who spent sixteen years inside the Office of the Director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit offenses against and defraud the United States. He is 78 years old and faces up to five years in federal prison. Read More

In 2021, the Minnesota Department of Human Services named Salman Ahmed Elmi an Outstanding Refugee and handed him an Entrepreneurship Award. There was a certificate. There was a plaque. There was, presumably, a small ceremony where someone in a lanyard said the words "the American dream" without irony. Read More

Kasey Thomason and her seventeen year old daughter Annie bought good seats. A few rows off the floor at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Sunday night, Fever at Dream, one of the best games of the season. They wore XX-XY Athletics shirts. Kasey's had the letters done in stars and stripes. Read More

Here is the thing about the referral Vice President Vance sent to the Justice Department on Thursday. It has almost nothing to do with pronouns, and that is exactly why it should worry the hospitals on the receiving end. Read More

In November 2024, a Florida woman named Kyla Simpson gave birth to triplet boys. They were not hers. She had carried them under a surrogacy arrangement for Ted Zhou, a single man in China who had commissioned the pregnancy. Read More

There is a particular kind of political story that restores your faith in the essential comedy of the universe, and Burlington County, New Jersey has delivered one. Read More

For six years we were instructed that questioning the COVID vaccine rollout made you a crank, a conspiracist, or a threat to public health. The approved position was that the science was settled, the messaging was honest, and anyone asking about risks in pregnancy was spreading misinformation. Turns out the man delivering that message had questions of his own. He just kept them on his phone. Read More