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They’ve hit the mother lode. We may no longer need to rely on foreign batteries to power our electronics. Geologists have announced that the Appalachian Mountains could be hiding a sprawling multi-billion-dollar cache of lithium that could last the US hundreds of years. “This research shows that the Appalachians contain enough lithium to help meet the nation’s growing needs,” declared US Geological Survey Director Ned Mamula in a statement. According to a map by the institution, this East Coast mountain range houses around 2.5 metric tons of this battery precursor, most of which is concentrated in the Carolinas, Maine and New Hampshire. Total value: around $64.4B dollars.

The Supreme Court’s liberal justices called their colleagues’ decision clawing back race-based redistricting on Wednesday a “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act. In a 48-page dissent, Justice Elena Kagan held up the landmark 1965 law as helpful to the nation’s progress on racial discrimination. “At this last stage, the Court’s gutting of Section 2 puts that achievement in peril,” Kagan wrote. “I dissent because Congress elected otherwise,” she continued. “I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent.”

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will weigh arguments Wednesday over the Trump administration’s push to end legal protections for Haitians and Syrians as migrants fleeing war and natural disaster. Haitians and Syrians were among those from 17 countries with Temporary Protected Status, which allows migrants already in the U.S. to stay with work permits in 18-month increments, so long as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security deems their country of origin unsafe for return. Since President Donald Trump ’s second term began, Homeland Security has ended the protections for 13 countries, exposing their migrants to potential deportation. The case focuses on

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday further weakened the Voting Rights Act, ruling that a congressional map in Louisiana was a racial gerrymander even though it was drawn to comply with the landmark law aimed at protecting minority voters. The justices, split 6-3 with the court's conservatives in the majority, told states they can almost never consider race when drawing maps to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which was enacted to protect minority voters who long faced discrimination in elections.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with a pro-life pregnancy resource center that had raised First Amendment concerns about a New Jersey investigation into its practices. The Court handed First Choice Women’s Resource Centers a unanimous procedural victory in the case, which centers on a state investigation into whether it misled patients to discourage abortions. The ruling allows First Choice to challenge, in federal court, a subpoena it received from then-New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) demanding donor lists and other information from the center.

This absolutely had to be my last one for the night. As you may - or may not - have known, it's been a couple of busy days for the president and our glorious First Lady. From ducking madmen and comforting an angry and concerned nation on Saturday night... ...to rearranging Norah O'Donnell's derriere... ...President Trump has scarcely had a moment to chill out. Not that he'd want one. And then, today? Chuck and Camilla stopped in for a visit. And it was everything British royalty could appreciate from their American cousins for their first state visit The troops looked gorgeous.

Sure, it's not antisemitism. It's a political statement against Bibi Netanyahu or something. A benefit concert for the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia has been canceled because the choir that was scheduled to sing refused to share the stage with a Jewish choir group. You can't make this up. Surprised to find an action like this from the cultural elite? I'm not. A choral concert fundraiser for the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack at a Jewish event in Sydney has been canceled after local Greek singers opposed singing alongside their Jewish counterparts

As we reported, King Charles is visiting the United States. He spoke to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. He also met with President Donald Trump, as Trump gave a speech on how "In recent years, we've often heard it said that America is merely an idea," but that it was much more than that; that "the cause of freedom did not simply appear as an intellectual invention of 1776," and that the American founding was based on struggle, sweat, blood, and sacrifice to have the freedom we enjoy today. I think this was likely a retort to one of Joe Biden's classic lines

US President Donald Trump has instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Citing US officials, the report said that in recent meetings, Trump opted to continue squeezing Iran’s economy and oil exports by preventing shipping to and from its ports. He assessed that his other options—resume bombing or walk away from the conflict—carried more risk than maintaining the blockade, officials added, the report said. The US and Israel launched a joint offensive against Iran on Feb. 28, prompting Tehran to respond with strikes on what it described as US interests across the region, many of them in Gulf countries. A ceasefire

New York City's self-described democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has made history, just not the kind worth bragging about. Barely months into office, he has blown past a statutory budget deadline for the first time since 2015, declared a fiscal crisis of "historic magnitude," and responded to a $5.4 billion budget gap the way any good socialist would: by asking someone else to pay for it. Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin appeared together at City Hall on Tuesday to announce they would delay the executive budget, originally due May 1, until May 12 while lobbying Albany to bail out a city

Yesterday the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment of David Morens, who was a Senior Adviser to Anthony Fauci during the covid era. The indictment includes allegations against two co-conspirators, who have been identified as Dr. Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, and Dr. Gerald Keusch, an associate director of Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory Institute. EcoHealth Alliance is the nonprofit that got grant money from the National Institutes of Health and passed it on to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to do research on coronaviruses

Today the FBI executed twenty-two search warrants around the metropolitan Twin Cities in its continued investigation of the massiive public-programs fraud committed by an almost exclusively Somali cast of perpetrators. The United States Attorney will present the evidence to a federal grand jury and secure indictments in due course. In the Feeding Our Future case, the time between the searches and the first indictments ran some nine months. The FBI conducted the searches today on a panoply of daycare centers (thank you, Nick Shirley), autism providers, and perhaps other businesses receiving funds under one or another of Minnesota’s fourteen waivered Medicaid programs. These programs have been looted by fraudsters