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The Trump administration’s release of the long-awaited Epstein files didn’t provide what survivors were looking for.
As Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, Tina Peters' supporters call on Gov. Polis to reflect that spirit.
Amid a firestorm over the release of Jeffrey Epstein files ordered by Friday, the Department of Justice issued a fact sheet Sunday explaining that records remain under review, are subject to redactions, and that some photos have been removed to pr…
The next presidential election is three years away, but Turning Point USA already knows it wants Vice President JD Vance as the Republican nominee.
The president can’t seem to stay focused on the issue that voters care about most.
At least six career staffers at CISA were placed on paid leave this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency’s acting director failed, Politico reported.
Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump's military mission off Venezuela's coast, warning that the U.S. seizures of multiple oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea amount to "a provocation and a prelude to war."
Personnel from the United States boarded and seized a vessel off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday, according to a US official familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on Caracas.
Trump desperately wants Tina Peters released but can’t make it happen without help.
FBI Director Kash Patel announces artificial intelligence expansion to combat evolving threats and keep America ahead of "bad actors" in the digital age.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…
It is not easy to see how Putin can get out from underneath China’s thumb.
The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable.
In his first year back in the White House, President Trump has greatly expanded executive power while embracing the trappings of royalty in ways not seen in the modern era.
A White House envoy said Sunday he held "productive and constructive" talks in Florida with Ukrainian and European representatives to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine.
Minnesota's media outlets are facing scrutiny from conservatives after a massive fraud scandal has exploded on the national scene after over five years of speculation.
Target employee Jeanie Beeman was honored at AmericaFest after going viral for calmly handling a confrontation over her Charlie Kirk T-shirt at work.
Tulsi Gabbard warns of "Islamist ideology" threat at conservative gathering, citing canceled Christmas markets in Germany as security concerns mount.
Fifteen people are dead after gunmen opened fire at a Jewish Hanukkah festival on one of Sydney’s most iconic beaches.
An immigration detainer was issued for a suspect in a gruesome cab driver killing, as the Trump administration continues with border security crackdown efforts.
A conservative who has served in the Senate since 2021, Ms. Lummis attributed the decision to the “difficult, exhausting session” this fall on Capitol Hill.
When it comes to human beings, learning must not consist in committing a pre-packaged truth to memory, but an endless process of discovery and self-critique.
The chief justice has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Zohran Mamdani, New York’s mayor-elect, is among the latest politicians to be tagged with the term, raising the question: What did theater kids do to deserve such scorn?
The Trump administration delivers yet more shocks but no surprises.
JD Vance tells AmericaFest that president Trump built the greatest coalition by rejecting purity tests and welcoming freethinkers to America First.
Former RNC Chair Michael Whatley campaigns across North Carolina for Senate seat, joining Trump at Rocky Mount rally as GOP aims to flip key races in 2026.
Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history.
Catherine Almonte De Costa’s resignation does not mitigate the problem represented by Mamdani’s prejudices and those for which his transition team selects.
Forty Years on, Dire Straits’ bassist John Illsley talks to Quillette about the band’s 1985 masterpiece, ‘Brothers in Arms.’
Trump used the rally to hammer the issue his advisers want him to emphasize as his poll numbers lag.
His books on Reagan “have never been transcended,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., warned on Sunday that Hamas appeared to be rearming and trying to strengthen its control of Gaza, while Hezbollah continued to produce weapons in Lebanon.
Indiana Republicans overwhelmingly rejected a redistricting plan backed by the president.
Ukraine peace talks in Florida reportedly show major progress as president Trump's envoy works with Ukrainian officials on framework to end Russia war.
Bondi is Australia, Australia is Bondi Beach.
In the extraordinarily unlikely event that it was some sort of alien craft, its best moment for getting in touch or wiping us out has passed.
Female rapper Nicki Minaj on Sunday made a surprise appearance at a Turning Point USA event in Arizona that was memorializing late conservative leader Charlie Kirk, and used her time on stage to praise President Donald Trump and Vice President JD …
In the wake of the Republican National Convention earlier this month, Fareed speaks with historian Niall Ferguson about how and why the modern-day GOP has changed since the Reagan era of the 1980s.
Why the Bondi attack was not an aberration, but the consequence of years of tolerated antisemitism across Australian public life.
The administration’s death toll from strikes on alleged drug boats crests 100 as it ratchets up a unilateral blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers.
President Donald Trump has pushed to lower drug prices for Americans, which are on average nearly three times higher than overseas.
The Department of Justice announced it would appeal a judge's decision to dismiss the cases against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney Letitia James, insisting that the prosecutor ruled unlawfully appointed by the court remains …
Government is slow, inefficient, and sclerotic. A former senior Biden official offers a progressive blueprint to fix it.
The February 2026 issue of National Review magazine is a gem.
After pretending the attacks on Venezuela were about drugs, Trump confirms it's about the oil.
When a man with the president’s personality feels besieged and abandoned, he becomes more desperate and more dangerous.
The biggest takeaway from the Kennedy Center name change is the pointlessness of it all.
The identity of the Bondi Beach terrorists reveals some uncomfortable but important truths about antisemitism within Australia’s Muslim population.
It’s not time to be alarmed about Trump’s age. But as Yogi Berra once said, it gets late early here.
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., warned against using the U.S. military to force regime change in Venezuela, adding, "if you break it, you buy it."
By standing boldly for what he believed in, he helped shape the course of the 20th century.
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
A total of 16 photos were taken down at some point on Saturday from the website that the Justice Department created. One featured an open drawer containing other photos, including at least one of President Trump.
Justice Department explains deletion of documents on agency’s website, including the temporary disappearance of an image that includes a photo of Trump with bikini-clad women.
‘I’m going to call in the insurance companies that are making so much money, and they have to make less, a lot less.’
Ordinary Americans today enjoy a living standard that would have awed kings for most of human history.
The Democrats appear bent on not learning a thing from their 2024 disaster. Instead of learning from their autopsy, they are ignoring it.
Kevin Hassett says President Donald Trump will review housing policy ideas at Mar-a-Lago after Christmas, promising relief for struggling homebuyers.
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
Jonathan Kay speaks with Roy Ratnavel about his journey from a prison cell in war-torn Sri Lanka to the heights of Canada’s financial industry—and the lessons about immigration and multiculturalism he learned along the way.
Onscreen, she tends to play women fighting the patriarchy; offscreen the image she cultivates has meant conservatives consider her one of their own.
Claire Lehmann reports from Bondi Beach on the sombre atmosphere and public anger following the terror attack.
Russia's Vladimir Putin is potentially playing the U.S. and the world with disingenuous peace talks, likening the effort to Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Axios claimed that Hawley’s new pro-life initiative is a way to position himself to JD Vance’s right in time for the 2028 presidential primaries.
Evil pollutes everything it touches; for a long time I wrestled with my own shame, as though I bore some guilt by association.
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
‘It seems entirely obvious that what is described in that Compact piece happened and happened at scale. There’s no point denying it.’
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
Rapper Nicki Minaj shifts political support toward President Donald Trump after speaking about Christian persecution in Nigeria, and teams up with Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk.
Iona Italia talks to English Literature professor John Mullan about the innovative genius of Jane Austen.
The expansive operation follows the killing last weekend of two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter at a military base in the city of Palmyra.
Parent empowerment, along with learning innovations developed outside of the federal government, are the future.
To better understand the president’s foreign policy, one must study the behavior of small children.
Richard Linklater’s film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘À Bout de Souffle’ is a delight.
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
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Vice President Kamala Harris, a former US senator from California who previously served as the state's attorney general, could be the first Black woman and Asian American to lead a major party ticket after receiving President Joe Biden's support t…
Hundreds of thousands of Americans in rural and urban areas alike could see their votes rejected if the court decides that ballots must arrive by Election Day.
In an interview with NBC, the No. 2 official at the Justice Department denied that officials were protecting the president from what has been disclosed.
The president made clear he supports his chief of staff despite her Vanity Fair comments.
Maria Farmer has long claimed that she warned the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s but that the agency ignored her complaint.
The U.S. government for decades has been the world’s leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case.
At AmericaFest, conservative leaders insulted one another, revealing serious rifts over conspiracy theories, antisemitism and who belongs in America.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Another series of failures ensures that a debate they can't win will extend into the election year of 2026.
On the science of hope and hopelessness
Democrats are so devoted to illegal immigration that they are letting violent illegal immigrants free and getting people killed.
Fareed explains why AI's massive energy demands are straining the power grid, but also why AI could enable big breakthroughs in sustainability and clean energy.
The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday was pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration appeared to be intensifying its targeting of such vessels connected to the Venezuelan government.
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said a vessel had been “apprehended.” It was the second action this month against a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil.
Mike Benz was brought aboard to find evidence for his claims that the agency is secretly a spy operation.
The Republican-led Justice Department’s release of photos of the former president with Jeffrey Epstein will introduce yet another generation to his flaws and controversies.
Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
Trump has cajoled major drugmakers into offering discounts in exchange for tariff and regulatory relief, but few patients will see any savings as a result.
As the dawn rose on President Donald Trump's second term, one key figure from his first administration stood back, content to focus on his personal business interests and not retake a formal government role.
Brown University allegedly failed to prevent a campus murder due to outdated security systems, says former student who exposed administrative waste.
Byron Donalds urges conservatives to 'focus on the mission' after recent losses, emphasizing need for tangible results and voter turnout strategies.
The provocative podcaster has an audience – online, among influencers and inside the White House. That worries some on the right.
Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks profile rose after her grilling of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his appointment hearing went viral.
U.S. forces had boarded a different tanker on Saturday. The actions signaled a crackdown on such vessels.
GDP is still the best overall measure of our economy. It stands for gross domestic product. It covers consumption, investment, government, and trade.
Retirements, resignations and tough elections could cut into their growing numbers from recent elections.
Some files that were posted to the site were deleted without explanation, only to be restored several hours later.
Governor Ron DeSantis has done yeoman’s work in trying to reshape higher education in his state.
Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as New York City’s new mayor on Jan. 1, alongside a party spanning seven blocks that will accommodate 40,000 spectators, his transition team said.