Senate Majority Leader John Thune discusses diplomatic options for Iran's nuclear program, stating Israel may lack capability while emphasizing U.S. military involvement should be avoided. ... Read full Story
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who is running for mayor of New York City, is being held up as a hero by progressives, but some say his arrest was political theater. ... Read full Story
Virginia Republicans rally behind John Reid for lieutenant governor as the party aims to flip the narrowly Democrat-controlled House of Delegates in November elections ... Read full Story
A federal judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a policy requiring identity documents to reflect an individual’s sex “at conception” to all transgender, nonbinary and intersex Americans who want to change the sex designation on their passports. A previous ruling, handed down in April, had ordered the State Department... ... Read full Story
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) criticized the Trump administration’s use of the military, saying the U.S. is turning into “one of the worst countries.” In an interview late last week, Omar noted the deployment of U.S. troops to quell protests in Los Angeles took place in the same week that the administration held the military parade,... ... Read full Story
President Trump is becoming ever more emphatic in his backing of Israel’s attack on Iran, with the chances rising by the hour that he will greenlight direct U.S. involvement. The president discussed the crisis in the White House Situation Room with his closest advisers on Tuesday afternoon. Afterward, according to the Israeli news organization Haaretz,... ... Read full Story
There are new allegations the Chinese Communist Party manufactured fake driver's licenses and shipped them to the U.S. in a scheme to influence the 2020 presidential election. ... Read full Story
DOJ attorneys said the courts do not have the authority to intervene with the executive branch's decision to detain a noncitizen who is in removal proceedings. ... Read full Story
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem was taken to a hospital on Tuesday after having an allergic reaction, according to the department. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that Noem was “alert” and recovering from the incident. “Secretary Noem had an allergic reaction today. She was transported to the hospital... ... Read full Story
Israel's strikes on Iran's nuclear infrastructure come months after DNI Tulsi Gabbard testified that the intelligence community determined Iran was not building nuclear weapons. ... Read full Story
A new poll shows that a majority of Californians oppose healthcare for illegal immigrants, reversing previous support, as Medi-Cal faces funding questions. ... Read full Story
An allergic reaction prompted the hospitalization of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday, though department officials confirm she is recovering. ... Read full Story
The Trump administration wants to open up more than 80 percent of a publicly owned area of the Western Arctic for oil and gas drilling. The Interior Department said late Tuesday afternoon that it is releasing a draft plan in support of opening up 82 percent of the area, known as the National Petroleum Reserve... ... Read full Story
An American citizen was among the 15 killed in Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce confirmed in a press conference. ... Read full Story
Senate Republicans are divided over Medicaid provider tax rates and their effect on rural hospitals. Some GOP members fear rural hospitals could close. ... Read full Story
The political assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband over the weekend raises questions about the motives of suspect Vance Boelter. ... Read full Story
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass lifted the city’s curfew on Tuesday, one week after it was put in place to respond to a wave of anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demonstrations that at times turned violent and saw businesses vandalized. The announcement comes a day after Bass reduced the curfew hours, pushing its start time... ... Read full Story
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"Yes, Barbie is a polarizing toy ... but [Greta] Gerwig leaped right to what else Barbie is: a potent, complicated, contradictory symbol that stands near the center of a decades-long and still-running argument about how to be a woman. ... The movie is a celebration of Barbie and a subterraneanapologia for Barbie." — Willa Paskin, The New York Times, 11 July 2023
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As you might expect, apologia is a close relative of apology. Both words come from Late Latin; apologia came to English as a direct borrowing while apology traveled through Middle French. The Latin apologia can be traced back to the Greek verb apologeîsthai, meaning "to speak in defense; defend oneself." In their earliest English uses, apologia and apology meant basically the same thing: a formal defense or justification of one's actions or opinions. Nowadays, however, the two are distinct. The modern apology generally involves an admission of wrongdoing and an expression of regret for past actions, while an apologia typically focuses on explaining, justifying, or making clear the grounds for some course of action, belief, or position.