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New Orleans police chief Anne Kirkpatrick sparks viral controversy claiming immigration violations are "civil issues" her department won't enforce.
The Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees group accuses Gov. Tim Walz of failing to act on fraud warnings and retaliating against whistleblowers.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that the administration won't restart asylum claims until every applicant is thoroughly vetted under the new standards established by President Donald Trump.
The recent scandal reveals an uncomfortable truth: different cultures lead to different outcomes.
An investigation sheds light on what can happen when women emphatically pursue ‘free’ birth.
Lawmakers sprint to finish major legislation, including Obamacare subsidy reforms and appropriations bills, with Jan. 30 funding deadline looming.
The laws of war, incorporated in the federal war crimes statute, prohibit the killing of people who have been rendered hors de combat.
If enacted on a long-term basis, the change would significantly shift the way National Guard troops have worked with law enforcement in the District since their arrival.
A day after two National Guard soldiers were shot, one fatally, in a barbaric terrorist attack in Washington, DC, President Trump declared that the United States will permanently pause migration from all Third World countries. The announcement lan…
Five pivotal moments shaped 2025 off-year elections: Democratic gains, affordability crisis, Virginia scandal, redistricting battles and NYC political shift.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Rising American anti-Semitism isn’t a foreign influence operation.
Trump administration announces stricter immigration limits after an Afghan national allegedly shot National Guard members near White House, leaving one dead and one in critical condition.
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On April 14th, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took to the stage in Utah before a crowd of thousands.
FBI Director Kash Patel talks about the agency's crackdown on crime networks and foreign espionage, the 'burn bags,' and more.
CIA Director John Radcliffe is "sitting on a ton of information" and must release the details about the Afghan accused of killing one guardsman, critically wounding another, and who became involved with the CIA in Afghanistan before being cleared …
The science of combining basic elements in novel ways led to countless new classes of products and services.
President Trump’s statements on social media less than 24 hours apart showed the dissonance in his campaign against drug trafficking.
NORAD's Santa tracker uses military radar and satellites protecting North America to follow Santa's Christmas Eve journey in a nearly 70-year tradition.
Aggressive tactics in Chicago have been deployed in DHS’s “Operation Midway Blitz” to round up more than 4,000 people, only a small portion of whom have major criminal records.
A new article in MIT’s ‘Undark’ magazine recycles old misinformation about a supposedly toxic chemical.
The author of ‘Eat Pray Love’ has returned with a new memoir, which features all the usual problems with her writing writ large.
As partisan battles rage and courts wrangle proposals, the relentless pace of the calendar will force states to act — or land in murky legal ground.
The hyper-sexualized nature of many gay subcultures threatens to undo the important human-rights progress we’ve made over the course of my lifetime.
In the sweep of history, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s time in Congress will be a blip.
White House senior adviser Peter Navarro recounts his time in a federal prison in
The MAGA right will start to care only when the administrative state that Trump is fashioning falls into the hands of the Democrats.
Jonathan White, a longtime civil servant who fought Trump officials’ efforts to separate migrant families, says Democrats must do more to combat the president.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
President Donald Trump is escalating efforts to disrupt Venezuelan drug trafficking operations but preparing for targeted military strikes, not a ground invasion, former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz told Newsmax on Sunday.
President Trump shared Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, outlining presidential powers to suspend alien entry after National Guard shooting.
While the sitting president rage-posted, mourners memorialized Dick Cheney—and an earlier political era.
In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats, Hegseth has joined Trump’s norm-shattering bid to punish political foes.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth defends Trump administration strikes on Caribbean drug vessels, stating that, "Biden coddled terrorists, we kill them."'
President Donald Trump took to social media Sunday to blast former President Joe Biden and his administration over their immigration and asylum policies, accusing them of having "really screwed our country."
Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?
Former officials said the C.I.A. diligently assessed those who partnered with its forces, like the man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington.
Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
The Senate and House armed services committees’ pledge followed a Washington Post report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered that a U.S. strike leave no survivors.
What does it mean to be female and conservative in 2025?
America's major cities are suffering from a "turnstile criminal justice system" driven by judges and politicians who refuse to keep violent offenders off the streets, Guardian Angels founder and former New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa …
How sex abuse has gone undetected inside Australia’s childcare sector.
Like dictators before him, Trump's road to tyranny is paved with hate
President Donald Trump is vowing action against the Islamic radicals holding more than 250 children and teachers in Nigeria, and Father Chris Alar said on Newsmax Sunday that the crisis is far more severe than global leaders and the media acknowle…
Makary, a former professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, explained to Pod Force One host Miranda Devine that as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NI...
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book, like many before it, treats the Great Crash and FDR’s response it as a morality play.
Professor Rich Vedder looks at the reasons for grade inflation and its consequences.
President Donald Trump’s announcement follows growing U.S. threats to attack Venezuela.
The couple married at a courthouse in Newark days before hosting an intimate wedding in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. They shared their wedding details exclusively with The New York Times.
Russia is seeking territorial gains rather than a diplomatic settlement, even as the U.S. prepares for a new round of high-stakes talks with Moscow this week, said Yuriy Sak, a former adviser to Ukraine's minister of strategic industries, on Newsm…
More than 6 in 10 registered voters say a four-year college degree is not worth the cost, according to a new NBC News poll. Just 33% now say a four-year degree is worth the cost — a drop of 20 points since June 2013, according to the survey releas…
Schumer warns Trump's Venezuela actions push U.S. toward war without congressional approval, citing constitutional concerns over military force and oversight.
The president said he assembled the most talented and impressive Administration in history. But a series of recent embarrassments from Trump officials suggests otherwise.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., dismissed speculation that President Donald Trump intends to launch strikes in Venezuela or send American forces into the country.
From offshore funding networks to the economic costs of unreliable renewables, this episode explores how Australia’s energy policy has been shaped by overseas interests—and what’s at stake if the country doesn’t change course.
If you thought that the transgenderism obsession was finally ebbing, you’d be wrong.
Extra toilet paper is just one of the privileges the former Epstein associate is enjoying in prison.
Infighting. Bad polls. Party divisions. Midterm fears. It’s all back.
The minority leader is trying out a venture capitalist’s new book title, “Strong Floor, No Ceiling,” as the Democrats’ centrist answer to “Make America Great Again.”
The officials arrived at the secret CIA archival facility in the Washington area one morning in early April. Their mission: to seize still-classified CIA files on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
President Trump has used the language of divisiveness at a time when tragedy demands measured leadership.
House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers, R-Ala., and Ranking Member Adam Smith, D-Wash., issued a joint statement Saturday in response to reports that U.S. forces carried out a follow-up strike in the Caribbean.
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.
The U.S. must begin a "season of accountability" over immigration and vetting failures that contributed to the shootings of National Guard soldiers Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe in Washington, D.C., last week, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blain…
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…
Sen. Cory Booker announces marriage to Alexis Lewis on social media, sharing wedding photos after private ceremony in D.C. and Newark courthouse.
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.
A conservative-aligned watchdog group has filed a bar complaint urging an investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Texas Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, announces plans for his retirement to focus on his family, while his identical twin brother launched a campaign to replace him.
The Pilgrims tried communal ownership — and nearly starved.
The president likes winners. And the mayor-elect proved he can charm a foe.
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…
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.
President Trump said days earlier that the United States could “very soon” expand its campaign of killing people at sea suspected of drug trafficking to attacking Venezuelan territory.
Why did Britain negotiate a treaty with Māori chiefs in New Zealand but claim Australia as terra nullius—“land belonging to no one”?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner plan to discuss peace terms again after an uproar over a 28-point proposal drafted with Russian input.
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.
This is not a tragedy — it is an atrocity. The voting public should and likely will regard it as such.
Its effects will linger for some time.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Far from the southern border, agents are leading raids on U.S. cities.
For their research showing that rape is generally motivated by sexual desire, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer were subjected to death threats and hounded in their personal and professional lives. And yet, they were right.
A meeting between U.S. and Ukrainian officials in Florida on Sunday was "very productive," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, adding that work still remains toward ending Russia's war in Ukraine.
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.”
Why are people fleeing the country? Is the threat of genocide being exaggerated—or ignored?
Notice how Beijing, the world’s most effective greenwasher, is labeling rare earths as ‘green’ minerals.
Top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump administration says is aimed at targeting drug traffickers.
A feeling of profound gratitude is central to the conservative sensibility.
Democrats may have influenced the motive of the Afghan refugee who ambushed two National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C.
Would-be assassin Thomas Crooks extensively searched the name and address of Rep. James Comer, King Charles and former FBI Director Christopher Wray before the 20-year-old shot Donald Trump at a ...
‘Net’ migration, eh?
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.
Every day that I am fortunate enough to belong to this country is a blessing.
Rusty Reno and the American postliberal revolt against the postwar consensus.
A critical look at how well-intentioned editorial “sensitivity” can narrow creative risk-taking and homogenise contemporary fiction.
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…
David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) designated CAIR — a Muslim advocacy and civil rights group — a “foreign terrorist” group, along with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The death of one of the two National Guard members shot in downtown D.C. spurred the upgraded charge agains the suspect as the act of violence sparked a nationwide investigation.
A decision on the state’s new congressional map will affect five House seats and could help determine control of the chamber next year.
The decisions come a day after President Donald Trump vowed to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” among other threats.
Democrats zeroed in on utilities and affordability to win Republican support in upset elections in Georgia and Virginia. Can the same playbook work in 2026?
An interview with Peggy Sastre.