Explaining fintech startups as ideas for systems to move money around and make it look like something special and brilliant, so people won't count how much they're paying for it.

The US military installed pipelines to transport jet fuel around Okinawa, but it has covered up the fact that the sensors to check for leaks are broken.

The NAACP, represented by the ACLU, has sued South Carolina in federal court for its newly designed system of racist gerrymandering.

They deserve to prevail, but I am concerned about one possible obstacle. I seem to recall that, two or three years ago, the US Supreme Court's right-wing majority ruled that federal courts had no jurisdiction over state-level gerrymandering.

Is that correct? If so, does it imply that this lawsuit is doomed to defeat? If there is a crucial legal difference in this case, can anyone tell me what it is?

Manchin's excuse of "inflation", for blocking the climate-and-relief bill, is refuted by Sanders and by many economists.

Kim Potter was convicted of killing Daunte Wright, apparently based on concluding that her taking the pistol by mistake constituted such great negligence as to be criminal.