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Eminem’s music helped him to cope with his own suffering. It also helped his listeners cope with theirs.
Five takeaways from President Donald Trump’s speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
The president’s former campaign manager was denied an official role in the Department of Homeland Security, but he remains influential.
Democratic states have worked for months to craft legal opposition to President Trump’s agenda. Now they’re putting it into practice.
Legions of Canadian university students are now required to mumble fatuous platitudes about decolonisation as a condition of graduation. It’s effectively become Canada’s national liturgy.
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.
Today on TAP: It's really all about blocking former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Saturday that all federal employees are expected to fill out a mandatory productivity report form and will be considered resigned if they do not.
The removal of Gen. C.Q. Brown and other top officers has deepened concern among Trump’s critics who fear he intends to impose his politics on the institution.
The firings added to doubts about whether Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the agency’s acting head, supports lifesaving humanitarian assistance, as he has said he does.
Emissaries of far-right parties overseas, gathering this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, described a resurgence spanning continents, buoyed by the U.S. president.
The fate of Lori Chavez-DeRemer could show whether Trump will soften the party’s long-standing opposition to labor unions.
Conflict is brewing between Hongkongers who have made the UK their home and a Communist Party that wants to make the UK its vassal.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The NSW nurses have not just threatened individual patients—they have desecrated what it means to be Australian.
James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire
The federal budget debate has big implications for the economy. Despite questions about the math, investors expect an extension of the 2017 tax cuts.
Lawyers for Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer, who was sued after the election, call Donald Trump’s claims frivolous and liken it to suing a meteorologist for a wrong weather forecast.
Voters, activists and even some governors, like Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, are growing exasperated with congressional Democrats’ restrained approach.
President Donald Trump, delivering a speech to a packed crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday, told supporters that under his administration, the "fraudsters, liars, cheaters, globalists, and deep state bureaucrats are bei…
Vice President JD Vance will be the GOP's presidential nominee in the 2028 election cycle, a straw poll conducted at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference found.
On eros and marriage.
Democratic lawmakers and retired military officers expressed concern about the politicization of the military under President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The president sees himself as national king, and every other American—including Maine Governor Janet Mills—as one of his quavering subjects.
While the Russian and Ukrainian militaries have been clashing violently on the bloody battlefields of Eastern Europe, a parallel war has long been underway in the media sphere, where armies of information warriors have battled to shape the ways We…
Even pro-Ukraine Republicans have been silent on Donald Trump’s deference to Vladimir Putin.
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.
In the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, participants chose Sen. Adam Schiff of California and California Gov. Gavin Newsom as the two Democrats who pose the greatest threats to the U.S. and the GOP.
Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary about why he believes evolved differences between the sexes have been growing more salient in western societies.
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.
Lots of ink has been spilled over the past three weeks regarding the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This isn't the first time a new administration has attempted to address what it saw as government bloat. Most recently, t…
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Veteran actor Gary Sinise hopes more American servicemen and women will be able to acclimate back into civilian life with the help of the new movie 'Brothers After War'.
Kash Patel was sworn in Friday afternoon as Donald Trump's FBI Director, delivering this statement after taking the oath of office:
The defense secretary has repeatedly derided the military lawyers for war crime prosecutions and battlefield rules of engagement.
Data analyst Leland Dudek was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with the U.S. DOGE Service. Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner.
A proposed stimulus check from the Department of Government Efficiency, meant to incentivize the public to report government waste, could provide taxpayers with up to $5,000 if approved, Newsweek reported.
The president fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as part of a stunning shake-up across the military’s senior ranks.
A four-minute video appears to have been a turning point for the president and Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the ousted Joint Chiefs chairman.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Border czar Tom Homan told Newsmax on Saturday that he continues to be perplexed at the pushback the Trump administration is getting from Democrat politicians across the country saying "national security threats should be a nonpartisan issue."Earl…
Governors Jared Polis of Colorado and Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma are urging Trump to “let states play a role" in immigration enforcement decisions.
Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Three years into the war with Russia, President Zelensky appears to have become embroiled in a personal feud with the leader of Ukraine’s most powerful ally.
Trade tariffs grab headlines but the less-visible fight around money matters deeply to the president
Republicans are just fine with Elon Musk gutting the government.
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.
Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., appeared on Newsmax Saturday to express optimism and concern over President Donald Trump's proposed "DOGE Dividend," warning that the initiative could exacerbate inflation without spending cuts.
Former President Joe Biden's senior advisor said the Democratic Party "melted down" after Biden's poor performance in the pivotal CNN Presidential Debate
The Trump administration wants Ukraine’s resolution withdrawn and replaced with a toned-down version that officials feel is overly sympathetic to Russia.
Peanuts offered parables of existential angst and longing, described through small stories about the small affairs of small people.
Speaking at CPAC, Border Czar Tom Homan warned criminal aliens they would all be arrested and said he would make good on his promise to immigrant terror groups to “wipe you off the face of the earth."
Article III Project founder Mike Davis writes that the U.S. Supreme Court must stop lower level federal judges from usurping President Trump's executive authority.
Trump threatened to withhold federal education funding if Maine does not comply with his executive order and bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports.
America just switched sides in the Ukraine war.
Federal agencies launched reviews into the University of Maine's Title IX policies after a tense exchange between President Trump and the state's governor.
Newsmax ranked highest in the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll of cable news outlets.
Conservative leaders from throughout America overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump. A straw poll taken at the CPAC gathering in Washington, D.C. shows 99 percent of more than 1,000 leaders at the conference support Trump.
Newly-sworn in FBI Director Kash Patel will be tapped to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as acting director, according to sources.
President Donald Trump lauded Elon Musk and DOGE for their work uncovering government overspending in his speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
President Donald Trump pushed back against reports circulating in the European press that he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in May.
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…
At the National Governors Association meeting in Washington, two top governors shared their takes on the Trump-Mills disagreement at the White House the previous day.
The heavy emphasis on Pride Month, to the exclusion of every other holiday, sent a message to these young students: The celebration of sexuality is sacred.
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…
Democrats don't just lack a message - they also lack a messenger.
The evidence of the past few days suggests that they are all deluding themselves.
Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.
During an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump and DOGE czar Elon Musk seemed to contemplate the existence of what used to be called the
A European troop commitment is not the way to end this war-or prevent the next one.
The Navy’s top admiral and a senior Air Force general also were dismissed as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moves to align the military with Trump’s agenda.
“We’re confused a little bit … But it’s definitely like, Something’s happening.”
Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal government as a March 14 deadline looms.
President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States is close an agreement with Ukraine on sharing revenue from Ukrainian minerals as part of efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
After President Trump put in new leadership at the National Archives, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta abruptly canceled several events.
Provocative messages have become central to the Trump team’s political efforts, inviting everyone to guess what’s a joke and what’s not.
Speaking to a crowd of supporters that included pardoned Jan. 6 rioters, the president gleefully recounted his efforts to purge the government of his political enemies.
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…
The state’s first female governor and first female district attorney, the longtime Democratic politician has a history of supporting law enforcement.
West Virginia Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey touted the Mountain State's coal infrastructure as the unsung key to battling China in energy dominance.
This could be the opening Democrats need to re-engage Latinos who have been waiting for someone to stand up.
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New York State Attorney General Letitia James took a social media victory lap on Friday boasting that her coalition of Democrat AGs have stopped the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive Treasury Department information.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio emerged as the most popular Republican lawmakers among attendees at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference, according to the event's straw poll.
The White House reported that President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke during a call over the weekend and discussed hockey.
Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.
Inside the federal agencies where Elon Musk’s people have seized control, fear and uncertainty reign.
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.
The conflict isn’t over, but its fate now appears clear.
Fifty years ago, lawmakers started lifting the lid on the shocking abuses of the new Bureau chief's most famous predecessor. The trouble is, very little changed.
Elon Musk has drawn inspiration from his 2022 takeover of Twitter with the tactic. His threat on social media of termination did not appear in an email to federal workers requesting the work summaries.
President of the Kennedy Center, Ric Grenell, said the "Golden Age of The Arts" is heading to Washington, D.C., under his and President Trump's leadership.
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.