Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike didn’t just create a legal firestorm — it exposed a system that looks like it was built by people who read protocols for fun but never tested them. The inmate was taken to a hospital after two sets of lethal-injection drugs failed to kill her. She survived, was More

Louisiana election officials quietly admitted that a routine database maintenance job accidentally flipped about 67,000 registered voters to “inactive” status, then fixed the mistake the same day. The Secretary of State’s office called it “human error,” restored everyone to active status, and promised new internal safeguards — without saying what those safeguards are or exactly More

California voters are being fed a fresh reminder that big promises for public workers can come with big bills for everyone else. A newly circulated data pull shows more than 63,000 CalPERS retirees now collect six‑figure annual pensions, with dozens above $300,000 and a few breaking $400,000. That sharp number, paired with Governor Newsom’s veto More

Video from a Salem, Oregon, Walgreens parking lot shows something we’ve seen too often this year: a crowd of anti‑ICE demonstrators surrounding federal vehicles, striking at an SUV with a baseball bat, and forcing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to clear a chaotic scene with tear gas and other crowd‑control munitions before driving away. The More

Mayor Zohran Mamdani told a national TV audience that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “should not be in this city at all” after an ICE officer fired at a vehicle in Marble Hill. The mayor’s emotional call to abolish a federal agency is getting headlines — and it deserves a clear-eyed answer. New Yorkers More