
Spanberger directs attention to federal worker back pay, while Earle-Sears continues to hit hard on Jay Jones’s text messages.
The BBC’s Lyse Doucet reflects on how long-awaited negotiations to move forward, not further back, appear to be succeeding.
When Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in January 2025, on the last day of the Biden administration, President Joe Biden demanded credit. “This is the exact framework of the deal I proposed back in May. Exact,” he said. Of course, that raises the question—if the deal was on the table earlier, why didn’t […]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit on Monday, accusing Louisiana’s new immigration detention center, “Louisiana Lockup,” and the Trump administration of indefinitely locking up immigrant detainees in the facility and punishing immigrants for the same crime twice, in violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause. The Louisiana facility opened on September 3, using the […]
The swap spread—the differential between the fixed rate of an interest rate swap (IRS) and the yield of a government bond of comparable maturity—is one of the most critical barometers of liquidity, risk aversion, and structural constraints in global fixed income markets. Its persistent volatility and notable deviation from historical norms post-2008 offer elite investors […]
Texas’ highest criminal court has stayed the execution of Robert Roberson, a death row inmate who was—for the second time in two years—less than a week away from becoming the first person in the country to be executed based on evidence of what used to be called “shaken baby syndrome.” In a two-page order, the […]