Jessica Corbett

A report on the "suspiciously timed" stock trading of U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel comes as the longtime party insider mulls a run for Democratic National Committee chair.

"Siri, what is insider trading?" That's how one reader responded to Tuesday reporting by The American Prospect 's Daniel Boguslaw that Rahm

"all 44 individuals arrested were charged with crowding, obstructing, and incommoding. Two of them were also charged with assault on a police officer."

The Biden administration again used its veto power at the United Nations Security Council to block a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional, and permanent cease-fire in Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip.

"The U.S. must use its leverage to safeguard civilian lives, secure a lasting cease-fire, and advance a pathway toward peace."

"Our taxpayer dollars should be used to fund education, housing, and healthcare for Americans, not to support the destruction of innocent lives abroad," said one advocacy leader "deeply saddened" by the votes.

Journalists and press freedom advocates this week responded to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's attack on a proposed federal shield law with renewed calls for the Senate to pass the House-approved bill before he returns to office in January.

The Brazilian Federal Police indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 others for allegedly plotting the "violent overthrow of the democratic state" after his loss in 2022.

"This is how they cover up what abortion bans do—fire anyone who helps tell the stories of harm," said one journalist. "Everyone who is or can be pregnant will pay the price."

"What we're seeing here in Texas with these lessons is a larger national push to promote the idea that American identity and Christian identity are woven together, are one in the same," said one professor.