The Rhode Island Attorney General's office confirms prosecutor Devon Flanagan, whose arrest for trespassing went viral this week, will be placed on unpaid leave starting Monday. ... Read full Story
House and Senate Democrats, along with Washington's non-voting delegates in both chambers, argued that had Washington D.C. been a state, the president would not have been able to federalize the police force. ... Read full Story
The search of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton’s home and office is raising questions about whether the White House is flexing its law enforcement muscle to go after a frequent critic. It also parallels an event that the president and his circle have highly criticized: the search for classified records at Mar-a-Lago... ... Read full Story
The Texas state Senate early Saturday signed off on a new congressional map, sending the legislation to Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to sign into law ahead of the 2026 midterms. The vote passed the upper chamber in a 18-11 party-line vote as expected, with Democrats denouncing the effort as a power grab. It came after... ... Read full Story
President Trump is keeping his foreign policy focus on Russia and Ukraine as global outrage grows over Israel's plans to launch a major new offensive in the Gaza Strip and a declaration of famine on Friday that underscored the catastrophic suffering of Palestinians. Trump has backed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to launch a... ... Read full Story
For the Trump White House, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. As White House officials watched California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) mirror President Trump’s rhetoric and social media persona this past week, they say it didn’t land the way it was intended. “If he wanted to get under President Trump’s skin, it didn’t work,”... ... Read full Story
President Donald Trump praised DHS Secretary Kristi Noem for moving to paint the entire southern border wall black, saying it will make it “untouchable." ... Read full Story
Democratic socialist and Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh is being knocked for holding a rally in a foreign language that appeared entirely devoid of American flags. ... Read full Story
Rep. Robert Garcia was ceremonially sworn in as House Oversight Committee ranking member by Vice President Kamala Harris, as Chair James Comer considers calling Harris to testify in Biden probe. ... Read full Story
A judge ruled the Trump administration cannot withhold federal money from sanctuary jurisdictions that limit cooperation with immigration enforcement. ... Read full Story
Republicans push for the subpoena of Vice President Kamala Harris in the House Oversight's investigation into the alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden's mental decline. ... Read full Story
Republicans advanced the Texas redistricting plan, after weeks of Democrats breaking quorum, as the new map heads to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk for signature. ... Read full Story
The Trump administration on Friday issued an order stopping all activities of a wind energy project in Rhode Island that could have supplied electricity to 350,000 homes. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in a letter sent to Ørsted, the Danish company operating the project, said the stop work order seeks "to address concerns... ... Read full Story
A racist sign has sparked outrage from both parties after appearing outside an Arlington County school board meeting where Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears was speaking. ... Read full Story
The Department of Education said George Mason University violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by illegally using diversity, equity and inclusion practices. ... Read full Story
Fox Business's Larry Kudlow expressed concern on Friday over the Trump administration's move to take a 10 percent stake in mega chipmaker Intel. “I am very, very uncomfortable with that idea. I’m very uncomfortable with that one, but that’s a conversation for another meal on another day," Kudlow told economist Stephen Moore, in an interview... ... Read full Story
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem condemned the Friday release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported but returned to the U.S., calling it a "new low." Abrego Garcia has been petitioning for his release from federal custody since his March deportation to El Salvador. U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes on Friday ordered the... ... Read full Story
Civilian Defense employees are volunteering by the hundreds for temporary details to serve on the southern border after an Aug. 20 memo was circulated via email. ... Read full Story
Ghislaine Maxwell tells federal prosecutors she believes Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in jail and no client list exists, contradicting conspiracy theories. ... Read full Story
Up to 1,700 National Guardsmen will deploy across 19 states to support ICE in President Trump’s immigration crackdown, effectively serving as support for an interagency effort. ... Read full Story
“Though tightly bound by our love of books, we bibliophiles are a sundry lot, managing our obsession in a grand variety of ways. We organize by title, by author, by genre, by topic. By color, by height, by width, by depth. … We stack books into attractive still lifes accompanied by a single tulip in a bud vase, or into risky, undulant towers poised to flatten a passing housecat.” — Monica Wood, LitHub.com, 7 May 2024
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If you’re looking for an adjective that encapsulates the rising and falling of the briny sea, wave hello to undulant. While not an especially common descriptor, it is useful not only for describing the ocean itself, but for everything from rolling hills to a snake’s sinuous movement to a fever that waxes and wanes. The root of undulant is, perhaps unsurprisingly, unda, a Latin word meaning “wave.” Other English words swimming the wake of unda include inundate, “to cover with a flood,” and undulate, “to form or move in waves.”