EXCLUSIVE: Diane Lane (Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Anniversary, The Exorcist) has joined the recurring cast of Netflix’s A Hundred Percent, the upcoming comedy series starring Nick Kroll, Sam Richardson, Jason Mantzoukas, and Vanessa Bayer. While Lane has previously starred in multiple TV dramas, her casting in a TV comedy is rare. She will portray […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Joely Richardson (The Gentleman) is set as a series regular opposite Stellan Skarsgård in Apple TV’s untitled thriller drama series from Alex Cary (Homeland) and Sony Pictures Television. The series is headlined and executive produced by Dakota Fanning, which Elle Fanning also executive produces. In the series, Fanning stars as an undercover Treasury agent […]
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In a ruling applying individual constitutional protections to new technology, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that sweeping use of cell phone location data requires a warrant.
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Paramount+ is huddling up with the Texas Tech for a docuseries on its football team that is eyed to premiere in time for the 2026 season in the fall. The four-episode show produced by Skydance Sports and Second Wind Creative will follow the Red Raiders and head coach Joey Maguire as they prepare for a […]
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Damián Bobadilla recuerda cómo nació su sueño de jugar con Paraguay acompañando a su padre, Aldo Bobadilla, a los estadios. Hoy, ambos comparten la emoción de ver cumplido ese anhelo en una Copa del Mundo.
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Neymar se prepara para un enfrentamiento importante en el que Brasil chocará contra una nueva generación japonesa con ganas de trascender.
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Imagine a labor board chair who knows she will be fired if she rules against the president’s friends. Or a consumer safety official who approves a dangerous product because he fears losing his job. That’s no longer hypothetical. It’s the very real consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Trump v. Slaughter.
These fears spring from the court’s decision to allow the president to remove the leaders of formerly independent agencies, not for cause but at the president’s whim. The Supreme Court’s decision guts independent agencies — a fixture of our nation’s executive branch for more than a century. In its latest expansion of executive power, the court ruled in a 6-3 decision to allow President Donald Trump to remove Rebecca Slaughter, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, overturning a decision dating back to 1935. In practice, the court’s decision allows the president to fire the heads of independent agencies, bipartisan commissions and boards for any reason: because he does not like their politics, their latest social media posts or their rulings on cases involving his friends, relatives or donors.
Presidents could even effectively shut down agencies when they dislike investigations into the conduct of their political donors and allies.
Independent agencies protect workers and consumers, regulate the media and play many other vital roles in our lives. Congress made them independent to ensure that they rely on expertise and operate free from political interference. The Supreme Court’s decision threatens to inject politics and corruption into these agencies’ functions. Presidents could even effectively shut down agencies when they dislike investigations into the conduct of their political donors and allies.
Let’s take the impact on workers’ rights. The National Labor Relations Board is supposed to resolve disputes between employers and employees over collective bargaining. Thanks to this ruling, its board members are now beholden to a president who can fire them at will. Unions and workers (not to mention businesses) will never know if the NLRB’s decisions are based on the best interpretation of the law or political favoritism. For instance, earlier this year, the NLRB dismissed a complaint against Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, asserting it lacked jurisdiction. Whether or not that determination was legally correct, decisions like it will now be viewed through a political lens, eroding trust in the agency’s neutrality.
Congress must act now to protect the public.
First, the legislative branch should allow individuals to go to court when they believe their rights have been violated under the statutes that created these agencies, such as the National Labor Relations Act. This ensures that workers, consumers and members of the public can vindicate their rights even if agencies are weakened or politicized.
A similar mechanism already exists under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. After the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reviews a claim, workers may pursue their own lawsuits. Even when the EEOC has dropped cases during the Trump administration — such as in cases involving transgender workers — those workers could still pursue their claims on their own. Contrast that with the NLRA, which has no individual right to sue. Unions and workers are stuck with a Trump-controlled NLRB.
Second, Congress should allow states to protect labor rights. Under current law, only the federal government can protect workers’ rights to join unions. That may have made sense when the NLRB — the agency that carries out that protection — had some independence from political winds as Congress intended. With the Slaughter decision, it no longer makes sense. States could help protect workers’ rights if they could pass their own labor laws. They could even pass laws that are more protective of labor rights if that is what their voters want.
Congress must close up the dangerous breach the court has created.
Finally, Congress has its own options to assure neutral adjudication of labor disputes. Congress could say the existing federal courts should protect labor rights, instead of the NLRB, or Congress could even create new specialized labor courts to hear these cases with the judges exercising particular expertise. Either approach would reduce the risk that outcomes are based on political pressure rather than legal judgment.
The Supreme Court has undermined Congress’s commitment to the public that important rights and protections will be enforced by experts free from the pressures of partisan politics. Now Congress must respond — and close up the dangerous breach the court has created.
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Oliver Tree would’ve turned 33 today, and his girlfriend posted a touching tribute in his honor … comparing him to Jesus Christ. Fiona Chernavskaya shared a bunch of pics and videos to her Instagram story Monday, remembering the musician on his…
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Donald Trump’s fixation on his White House ballroom endeavor is notorious for a great many reasons, but among the most prominent is the president’s broken promise: He repeatedly boasted that the public wouldn’t have to pay for the vanity project, and there’s ample evidence that those assurances weren’t true.
Unfortunately, this is apparently not the only example of its kind. The Atlantic reported:
The pathway that connects the White House residence to the Oval Office has long been paved in Tennessee flagstone. Every president since Harry Truman made the 45-second commute, and made it without complaint, until Donald Trump. The dun rock would not do. Instead, Trump wanted polished African granite, carved in Italy, with a flamed-finish stripe — slightly raised, to prevent slips — running down the middle. As workers tore up the flagstone in March, a reporter asked Trump who was paying for the enhancements. “Paid for by me,” he replied.
But that wasn’t true.
The Atlantic’s Michael Scherer obtained budget documents from the National Park Service (which have not been independently verified by MS NOW) that reportedly showed that the walkway replacement cost taxpayers nearly $700,000. The same report added that this is now also “part of a $1.3 million project that included repairing adjacent stone and masonry and providing new hardware for nearby doors.”
It dovetails with the park service spending nearly $350,000 to, as The Atlantic put it, “remove and replace the stucco on the colonnade wall, a project that cleared the way for Trump to affix gold frames and plaques mocking some of his predecessors.”
Broadly speaking, there are two main elements to this story. The first, obviously, is the importance of the gap between Trump’s claims and the truth: The more the Republican assures the public that they won’t be on the hook for his assorted fixations, the more we learn that Americans are in fact paying for many of his projects.
The second angle of note is the degree to which the White House is, for all intents and purposes, plundering the National Park Service.
About a month ago, The New York Times, relying on a federal contracting database, reported that the administration had redirected at least $67 million worth of park entrance fees to help fund Trump’s renovation projects in and around the nation’s capital. A related report from The Washington Post, published two weeks later, put the total at nearly $78 million.
That’s not illegal, but it’s a real problem for the parks that hoped to use those funds for repairs to deteriorating roads and infrastructure, among other things.
The Atlantic’s article advances this reporting, adding, “In order to pay for the president’s projects, the parks have had to cancel needed repairs, slash their budgets, and operate with fewer employees.” (When Scherer asked the Interior Department for a comment, a spokesperson responded by criticizing Obama-era spending on the parks. It wasn’t clear why that was relevant.)
Earlier this month, 11 senators sent a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum demanding answers from the administration on the use of national park entry fees for the president’s “vanity projects.”
“The lack of transparency around awards for these beautification projects, as well as the loss in revenue meant for the maintenance and betterment of our national parks threatens the public’s trust and the long-term integrity of our nation’s most beloved public lands,” the letter said.
There were no Republican senators among the 11 signatories.
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New York City horse racing rumbled to the finish line Sunday, as Aqueduct Racetrack — in all its paint-peeling, dilapidated glory — staged the venue’s last live races, transporting aging fans to a bygone era
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YouTube has made good on a provision in a 2025 distribution agreement with NBCUniversal, launching the ad-free tier of Peacock on its channel store. The availability of Peacock Premium Plus on YouTube Primetime Channels, announced Monday, was part of a comprehensive deal announced last October between NBCU and the video giant. The deal also involved […]
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Doctors have been locked in a three-year dispute with the government, resulting in several rounds of strikes.
Source: BBC.