Start your week smart: Conspiracy theories, Brooklyn Bridge, Pope Leo XIV, Fertility clinic explosion, PGA Championship
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Summer is right around the corner, and with it comes a new concern for inflation-weary consumers: Americans can expect to shell out a record $784, on average, to cool their homes from June through September, according to a new analysis from two energy policy groups. That’s a more than 4% jump from the same period last year and 14% higher than in 2020. Residents of New England and the Midwest will be hit especially hard, with costs projected to increase between 13% and 18% from last year. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. In our digital world, conspiracy theories and misinformation spread in no time at all. Even smart people go down the rabbit hole. Examples aren’t hard to find: JFK’s assassination. Sandy Hook. QAnon. Covid-19. Shortly after the Los Angeles wildfires broke out in January, rumor and speculation began to swirl online before exploding into a blaze of outlandish theories. Elon Musk spread a falsehood that large numbers of undocumented immigrants are getting Social Security benefits. Right-wing media figures suggested the government was hiding secrets relating to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
As tensions between the US and Cuba rise to the highest levels since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the mood was grim at a recent staff meeting at the US Embassy in Havana.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar launched a Democratic bid for governor on Thursday, pledging to unify her state and move beyond a deadly battle with the federal government over immigration.
White House Border czar Tom Homan will address the press in Minneapolis after being sent to take the reins on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. President Donald Trump dispatched Homan following the fatal shooting of two US citizens in Minneapolis. Follow for live updates
Vague descriptions of presidential signing ceremonies, policy meetings and industry executive sit downs — mostly behind closed doors — began peppering President Donald Trump’s public schedule at the end of last year.
Stephen Miller has sought this week to distance himself from the recent fatal shootings in Minneapolis. But Miller has been the architect of Trump’s aggressive deportation push.
President Donald Trump’s sweeping deployment of National Guard troops to several major cities across the United States cost taxpayers approximately $496 million from June through December last year, according to an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office.
President Donald Trump is weighing a major new strike on Iran after preliminary discussions between Washington and Tehran over limiting the country’s nuclear program and ballistic missile production failed to make progress, according to people familiar with the matter.
The White House and Senate leaders are moving closer to a deal to avert a government shutdown but are seeking to resolve final sticking points in eleventh-hour negotiations ahead of Friday’s deadline, according to several sources familiar with the talks.
More than a million fewer people have signed up for Affordable Care Act coverage for 2026, according to federal data released Wednesday. The drop comes after the expiration of the enhanced federal premium subsidies caused monthly payments to skyrocket for many enrollees.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, in a CNN town hall Wednesday night, stood by the city’s sanctuary policies and repeated his demand that federal immigration agents leave the city.
A former Venezuelan mayor who was arrested by ICE fears the US will deport him to the South American country, where he faced up to 15 months in prison for opposing the regime of President Nicolas Maduro.
Colombian authorities found no survivors after a plane with 13 passengers and two crew members crashed on Wednesday, the country’s Civil Aeronautics Authority told CNN.
Democrats in Congress are digging in against any funding deal with President Donald Trump this week that doesn’t include major changes to federal immigration enforcement – dramatically increasing the odds of a shutdown at week’s end.