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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said he plans to visit the border to assess toxic waste spilling over from Mexico.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The liberal candidate won in the first major statewide battleground election of 2025, protecting the progressive majority on the Wisconsin's supreme court, in a race that became a referendum on President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and broke recor…
While hostilities between Hamas and Israel continue, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government faces renewed protests at home.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The president is privately upset with the sloppiness of his advisers. Publicly, he’s focused on attacking the press.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., wants his colleagues to vote against a Democrat-sponsored resolution that would undo President Donald Trump's 25% tariff on Canadian imports, The Hill reported.
Tech billionaire and CEO Elon Musk stopped by CIA headquarters on Monday to meet with John Ratcliffe, the spy agency's director, to discuss DOGE.
The White House communications chief has a strategy: relentless aggression.
Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court.
The new European commitment to defence and Russia’s unshakeable wish to control Ukraine have revived an awareness that war is something with which comfortable and relatively wealthy states may still have to live.
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., announced Tuesday that he's placing a hold on President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.
Society should favour the tried-and-true norm of monogamous marriage, which is the most fecund arrangement, most likely to produce children in the kind and quantity we need.
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
Milwaukee is facing a ballot shortage due to "historic turnout" as Wisconsin voters decide the ideological direction of the state's Supreme Court.
Classical music was one of the first fields to impose the self-censorship that now pervades so many areas of intellectual and cultural life.
Randy Fine won Tuesday night's special election in Florida, and will now hold former Rep. Michael Waltz's seat in the Sunshine State's 6th Congressional District.
Can moderate Democrats, plotting their path back to power, convincingly make a populist pivot?
A new approach is not a tea party. It's a slightly-more-turbulent-than-usual reshuffle.
Newly released internal FBI chat messages reveal senior bureau officials actively shutting down discussion of the laptop's credibility days before the 2020 Presidential election
Conservatives were unable to topple the 4-3 liberal majority in the most expensive judicial contest in U.S. history.
In Wisconsin Tuesday, voters elected a liberal to the state's Supreme Court, despite President Donald Trump's powerful adviser Elon Musk pouring millions into the race to sway the polls.Two months into his barnstorming return to the White House, …
Jeffrey Goldberg joins Ashley Parker to discuss breaking the Signal story, the fallout, and more. Don’t miss this subscriber-only event on Thursday, April 3, at 11:30 a.m. ET.
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
American greatness starts with refocusing our politics on families and expectations that citizens take responsibility for themselves.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's recent rightward shift appears to be little more than window dressing, as his company's policies still favor mass censorship.
A Maryland bill to establish a commission to study reparations is moving forward, as the governor attempts to dodge questions about whether he supports the proposal.
In an unorthodox move, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, is questioning former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family and former White House officials about clemency.
Wisconsin's strict photo ID requirements for voters will now be enshrined into the state constitution after voters approved the proposal on Tuesday's ballot.
For those of us who study American politics, it's always a treat when David Shor pops up to offer his insights on the latest election.
Energized against the new Trump era, and against Elon Musk, Democrats pulled off a crucial judicial victory in Wisconsin and cut into Republican margins in two Florida congressional races.
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The Republicans who were elected on Tuesday to fill seats left empty by Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz had President Trump’s backing.
The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
Susan Crawford defeated conservative judge Brad Schimel, according to Associated Press projections, in a race that became a proxy war over President Trump’s agenda.
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.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, told Newsmax that he believes Congress has the will to use its constitutional power to prevent what he considers judicial overreach used at the district court level to usurp Presiden…
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles spoke with Lara Trump on FOX News on Saturday for what she describes as her "first and probably only" interview:
The economic and geopolitical consequences of America First nationalism are going to be disastrous—not least for Americans themselves.
President Donald Trump has punished multiple law firms that have employed his perceived political opponents.
Another round of “deferred resignation” offers is part of the Trump administration’s stepped-up effort to rapidly downsize the government.
T. Elliot Gaiser will be nominated to lead the influential Office of Legal Counsel, a department official said.
Óscar Arias Sánchez, twice president of Costa Rica, has been a vocal critic of President Trump, describing him as acting like a “Roman emperor.”
A university senate review concludes that some demonstrators who occupied Hamilton Hall were willing to leave voluntarily.
The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration’s aggressive and at times slapdash tactics.
Republican Jimmy Patronis won a special election Tuesday in Florida's 1st Congressional District, bolstered by President Donald Trump's endorsement to fill a vacant seat in reliably Republican northern Florida and despite national Democrats pourin…
The pause is limited to certain states while the case proceeds, narrowing the scope of an earlier order that had paused firings nationwide and led to the reinstatement of thousands of federal employees.
From France to Brazil, left-wing judicial activism is increasingly being used to sideline conservative leaders through legal maneuvers.
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
Democrats celebrated after the liberal-leaning candidate won an election on Tuesday for a seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court, protecting the liberal majority on the bench.
Washington gets a good old-fashioned scandal.
A CFO turned activist has become a go-to source for understanding the administration’s immigration crackdown.
A special election in Florida's 1st Congressional District between Republican Jimmy Patronis and Democrat Gay Valimont was held to determine the successor to Matt Gaetz's House seat.
The liberal candidate won in the first major statewide battleground election of 2025, protecting the progressive majority on the Wisconsin's supreme court, in a race that became a referendum on President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and broke recor…
As senior officials deny wrongdoing, rank-and-file national-security personnel worry about the dangers if no one is held accountable.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The National Security Council (NSC) has provided clarification on reports about Mike Waltz and his staff using personal Gmail accounts for government communications.
A new survey found that 11 percent of Americans said they could not pay for medication and medical treatments.
Who really benefits from open-border policies?
The U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office to review and get rid of ones that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, U.S officials said Tuesday.
The president's trade policy is about power and security, not economics
The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.
A federal judge on Tuesday said the administration of President Donald Trump cannot quickly fire thousands of probationary federal workers in 19 states and Washington, D.C., narrowing an earlier nationwide ruling.U.S. District Judge James Bredar i…
The Trump administration expressed its opposition to China's recent war games in Taiwanese water and air space Tuesday.
President Donald Trump is poised to unveil sweeping new "Liberation Day" tariffs on Wednesday, but kept the world guessing until the last minute about the scope of an onslaught that could spark a global trade war.
K.T. McFarland told Newsmax on Tuesday that Marine Le Pen's criminal conviction and ban from running for president in France is copied from the same playbook the political elites tried to use against President Donald Trump.
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.
Accusations of Trump Derangement Syndrome and Trump himself are both products of the social-media age.
The New Jersey Democrat spoke in protest of the Trump administration’s policies. Booker’s speech was not delaying the Senate from a vote, so it was not a filibuster.
A goofy Washington tradition devolves.
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…
It’s the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage.
My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.
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…
Republicans are hoping to add two seats back to their narrow House majority with special elections in deep-red Florida districts that have become hotly contested
Does capitalism need to be fixed? Is it no longer fit for purpose in this modern era, given our environmental ecosystems are under self-evident strain and income gaps are widening to levels not seen since the "robber baron" era?
Scottish feminists are angry that an accomplished male sculptor has been commissioned to make a statue of a suffragette.
California Democrats rejected two Republican bills that would have banned transgender athletes from female sports. In a rare turn, Republicans tried to use the Democratic governor’s own words to challenge Democrats.
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President Donald Trump has kept everyone guessing regarding the extent of the tariffs he is expected to unveil Wednesday, but the message from the White House is consistent: If you do business in the U.S., you won't need to pay anything.
In this age of rage, it is common for people to become the very thing that they despise in others, jettisoning their most cherished values to strike out at those they hate.
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 prospect of smashing imagined limits on his power gives him an obvious thrill.
Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.
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.
A rundown of Donald Trump’s biggest campaign promises and where they stand.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is pushing the United Nations to not reappoint Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for another term over accusations of antisemitism.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author and satirist Andrew Doyle about the worrying rise of illiberal ideologies and cultish political tendencies among conservatives.
Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., offered his suggestion to Newsmax on Tuesday that at first, the tariffs that President Donald Trump's administration plans to institute on Tuesday may prove to be rocky, but will ultimately prove fruitful for the Americ…
It takes a special talent to betray an entire worldview without missing a beat.
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…
Oliver Stone urged lawmakers in Washington, D.C, Tuesday to reopen the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who was killed Nov. 22, 1963.