In mid-June, a giraffe named Gracie escaped from a ranch in Texas located about 100 miles west of San Antonio. An intensive search — including helicopters and drones —  is still underway in Texas Hill Country, and a $5,000 award awaits whoever finds her. Like many charismatic animals who’ve escaped their confines, Gracie has gone […]

The Supreme Court held on Thursday that the Trump administration may ignore procedural rules governing the “temporary protected status” (TPS) program, which allows foreign nationals from war torn or otherwise unsafe countries to temporarily remain in the United States until their home nation stabilizes. The decision in Mullin v. Doe was handed down along party […]

As I watched more than 2 million people smush themselves into Lower Manhattan last week, it became crystal clear that Jalen Brunson will forever be known as the city’s hero; that Josh Hart is now a baby girl heartthrob; that Jordyn Woods’s purse is actually magic; and that there are a lot of fair-weather New […]

On Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii gun law, claiming that it violates the Second Amendment. As is almost always the case in the Court’s Second Amendment decisions, Wolford v. Lopez was decided along party lines. The Republican justices agreed with the Republican Party’s position that gun regulations are bad, while the Democratic […]

Donald Trump is not exactly a health influencer: The 47th president famously loves fast food and Diet Coke, and reportedly eschews both sleep and exercise. But Trump’s political power comes in part from a group of exceedingly health-conscious Americans. Supporters of the Make America Healthy Again movement, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., helped propel […]