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When it comes to California’s climate future, the most important figure in the state’s chaotic governor’s race may not be any of the candidates on the debate stage. It may not even be outgoing governor Gavin Newsom or President Donald Trump."This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here.Instead, it might just

On Monday afternoon, June 1, the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump was "backing off" from his plan to create a $1.7 billion "anti-weaponization fund" for Americans it claims were unfairly targeted legally by the Biden administration and former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. And the Trump-era U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said it would abide by a federal judge's order temporarily blocking the fund. According to former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance — a law professor and frequent legal analyst for MS NOW — the fund's fate is only one of the many le

Leah Atwood was rattled. It was the tail end of March, and for days she and her colleagues at Agroecology Commons had been fielding dozens of emails alerting them to grant terminations targeting a $300 million U.S. Department of Agriculture program. One after another, within a single week, 49 of the 50 grantees received notices from the USDA informing them that their grants were canceled."This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here.

President Donald Trump is now on a losing streak, and it's coming as a result of his own party members. Speaker Mike Johnson met with the president at the White House on Monday, and, not long after, it was revealed Trump would no longer fight to establish a $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund to pay out alleged victims of government overreach.Punchbowl News reported that the GOP is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Trump's political endorsement can boost or sink primary candidates, but his brand is so

What does Trump do when facing a humiliating defeat? He closes everything down. If that doesn’t work, he dumps it entirely and criticizes the hell out of whoever’s then in charge. Call it the Trump dump. He did this in the 2020 election — refusing to accept defeat and then trying to close it all down by instigating an attack on the U.S. Capitol. When that didn’t work, he spent the next four years blaming Biden for everything. When performers scheduled to appear at the Kennedy Center canceled in protest of Trump’s taking over the center and putting his name on it, Trump closed the center, with the lame excuse that he was “renovating” it. Then, Friday, after a federal court ordered him

Far-right MAGA Republicans have been calling not only for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, but also, for naturalized U.S. citizens to be stripped of their citizenship because of their political views. Some MAGA Republicans have called for prominent U.S. citizens like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (who was born in Uganda) and Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (who is originally from Somalia) to be denaturalized and deported. But according

President Donald Trump's administration has become "all-consumed" by one pressing issue, according to a new Politico report, distracting them from vital legislative wins and causing allies to fret about "the end of MAGA."On Tuesday morning, Politico released an extensive new report on the massive political headwinds buffeting Trump. Not so long after his earth-shaking return to power, he is now struggling to get anything done at a time when the GOP

A prominent political analyst argued on Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration is falling apart because of the one thing he cannot change — his aging body.“He’s 80!” political analyst David Rothkopf told The Daily Beast’s Joanna Coles on Monday. “He’s had a good life, and he should be at Mar-a-Lago sitting by the pool, having a margarita, talking to his friends about things he used to do.”He added, “Unfortunately, he is a disturbed, sick lunatic who holds the most powerful job in the world and is at a stage of his existence where, because he

President Donald Trump has often been accused of starting the Iran war to help Israel — and yet now one of America’s major conservative newspapers is blasting him for not being pro-Israel enough.“Iran’s regime began Monday by throwing a wrench into negotiations with the U.S., and President Trump spent the rest of the day scrambling to satisfy Iran’s demand,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote on Monday. “The result is a new cease-fire in Lebanon, rescuing Hezbollah for the moment, though the terrorists didn’t abide by th

President Donald Trump recently announced that he is pausing his pursuing of a $1.8 billion slush fund for supporters who claim to have been attacked by the government — and yet many in his own party do not believe him.That is the attitude in Washington amidst the news of his pause, reported MS NOW Jack Fitzpatrick and Mychael Schnell on Monday. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told MS NOW that ““They have to follow the law. ‘We all have to follow the law. That’s why God made jails. Yeah, if you don’t follow the law, you go to jail. It doesn’t tell me much.”Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck