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President Donald Trump late Friday issued an executive order requiring that whenever an agency promulgates a new rule, regulation, or guidance, it must identify at least ten existing ones to repeal. It is a radical expansion of Trump’s first term one-in-two-out executive order, which Public Citizen sued to block. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, released the following statement:

“Trump’s preposterous deregulatory executive order — demanding ten rules go for every one issued — is a flat out gift to polluters, grifters, reckless employers, and Big Business overall. What’s more, the order is unbelievably stupid and illegal.

The number of people imprisoned for life continues to climb, even as the overall prison population declines.

The president cannot unilaterally change the Constitution, but he’s sowing chaos by trying

A new artificial intelligence model from China not only upended stock markets this week, it also called into question whether the rush to build new, mostly fossil-fueled power plants to run data centers is premature.

New reporting raises concerns that Musk wants to control Medicare and Social Security through access to payment systems.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote a letter asking Google to reject the U.S. decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on its mapping service.

4 key findings from a report raising the alarm on ”an overburdened system increasingly struggling to keep pace with rising need”

Former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson dropped his libel lawsuit against CNN on Friday and said he is leaving public life, marking the final chapter for the disgraced Republican politician who was caught posting racist and sexually explicit musings on a porn website.

"The FCC chair is clearly undertaking an effort to bully and intimidate independent journalism, which is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes where democracy is under siege," said one critic.