In an attempt to stop federal workers from sharing information with journalists, the Trump administration may soon ask them—all two million of them—to sign non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs. A draft document shared Tuesday by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) outlined a set of civil and criminal penalties the federal government could pursue against any […]

A Tesla driver infamous for a series of road rage attacks caught on camera in Southern California has been sentenced to seven years in prison after he was convicted in a similar case in Hawaii. You may remember videos from 2023 that went viral showing a pipe-wielding man getting out of his Tesla and striking […]

The danger of a catastrophic explosion at a Garden Grove chemical tank is now gone, but 16,000 residents remain evacuated Tuesday as crews continue monitoring the site for a potential smaller blast. Hazmat teams worked overnight to neutralize the adjacent tanks and monitor the temperature on the main involved tank, Orange County Fire Authority spokesperson […]

This story was originally published on Gabriel Zucman’s substack, to which you can subscribe here (for English) or here (for French). Last week, Jeff Bezos made an unexpected contribution to the debate about taxation in the United States, claiming that billionaires like himself pay a lot of tax and that it would be pointless to ask them to […]