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Congressional reactions to Donald Trump's Iran strikes reveal partisan divides, with lawmakers debating war powers as the Senate prepares for an Iran briefing amid retaliation concerns.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The summer campaign season launched Saturday in Richmond as Democrat Abigail Spanberger and Republican Winsome Earle-Sears heated up the race for governor.
It's long past due for a broader look into what happened in 2020 and the lie of 'the most secure [election] in American history.'
President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Saturday evening after the U.S. military carried out successful strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities.
President Donald Trump issued a warning to Iran and its proxies that any retaliation against the U.S. for its airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites "will be met with force far greater." The U.S. military struck three sites in Iran early Sunday…
The super big story is the Israel-Iran war, as we await President Trump's decision on additional American assistance to Israel.
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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister have reportedly held a call after U.S. bombers completed their strike on three Iranian nuclear weapons sites Saturday night.
The ruling by the parliamentarian sent G.O.P. lawmakers back to the drawing board to cover the costs of President Trump’s domestic policy bill.
Even as the president suggested that he was open to negotiations, he had already made up his mind.
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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews Jonathan Spyer, director of research at the Middle East Forum, about how Israel laid the groundwork for its war with Iran by confronting threats in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.
Paralyzed in a car accident during college, she overcame her disability to become a Justice Department lawyer and serve for more than two decades on the bench.
We devote a lot of resources to trying to equalise student outcomes, but under ideal learning conditions, individual differences in student achievement widen.
The Times’s Jerusalem bureau chief explains what President Trump’s delay in deciding whether to intervene in the Israel-Iran war means for the people of both countries.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries late Saturday blasted President Donald Trump for not seeking congressional approval before the U.S. struck three nuclear sites in Iran. "Donald Trump promised to bring peace to the Middle East. He has failed t…
When Westerners hate the West.
Negotiating with Tehran is time-consuming and difficult under the best of circumstances. And it remains unclear whether President Trump’s 14-day clock is more than a way to buy time for military preparations.
TEL AVIV-Israelis overwhelmingly back their country's military campaign against Iran, even as they duck daily ballistic missile barrages and hope for decisive intervention by the United States, according to a new survey of wartime public opinion.
Sen. Tim Kaine, after the U.S. attack on the nuclear sites of Fordo, Natanz, and Esfahan in Iran Saturday, called on the Senate to vote on whether they are for "this third idiotic Middle East war."
An assassination in Minnesota has given legislators a fresh awareness of their own vulnerability.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked President Donald Trump and America for denying "the world's most dangerous regime the world's most dangerous weapons." The U.S. military used precision bombing to strike three sites in Iran early S…
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 Israeli prime minister's career looked finished after the October 7 attack by Hamas. But now he is pursuing a conflict he has proposed for years
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.
As missiles fly between Tehran and Tel Aviv, Iranian dissident Danial Taghaddos joins Zoe to explain what the West gets wrong about the regime, the nuclear threat, and the future of his homeland.
Amid Israel-Iran tensions, Fox News poll reveals 73% of Americans view Iran as a security threat, with bipartisan agreement, as Trump weighs military action against nuclear facilities
After nearly two years of stark divisions over the war in Gaza and support for Israel, Democrats seemed at odds over policy toward Iran as progressives demanded unified opposition before Donald Trump announced U.S. strikes against Tehran's nuclear…
Israel faces two major challenges: destroying the Iranian enrichment plant at Fordow and locating and eliminating the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium. For the first, it will need US assistance.
See the reactions of President Trump and other top officials as they look on from the Situation Room on Saturday night as US forces strike Iranian nuclear facilities.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Republican intelligence leaders in Congress were reportedly briefed before President Donald Trump's strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, but Democrat intelligence congressional leaders were not.
Trump said he was waiting to see “whether or not people come to their senses.”
Writer Meghan Daum talks to Iona Italia about her new essay collection, The Catastrophe Hour.
The three sites hit by U.S. bombs Saturday were not only to take out Iran's nuclear enrichment abilities but to take out the middle pieces of where it would "process a pit, that nuclear material" into an explosive device, retired U.S. Army Lt. Col…
Can recognition for outstanding work suddenly be a bad thing?
The enforcement of the nation's immigration laws is straightforward, regardless of how loudly the progressive Left yells.
President Donald Trump announces successful U.S. military strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities after previously indicating he would decide on action within two weeks
President Donald Trump has called for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate the 2020 presidential election, which he has long maintained was rigged.
The post-Cold War democratic wave has receded and the free world now appears to be learning from authoritarian regimes instead of the other way around.
The president told me he was optimistic about ending foreign wars—then he ended our conversation to take a call from Putin.
Congressional Republicans - and at least one Democrat - immediately praised President Donald Trump after he said Saturday evening that the U.S. military bombed three sites in Iran.
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Energy has been a highlight of the Trump 2.0 presidency. But the administration needs more cooperation from Lansing and Baton Rouge to bring its ambitious goals to fruition.
And Donald Trump is caught in the middle.
“Sunday, I woke up a different guy.”
As millions of Americans protested at “No Kings” rallies across the country, onlookers gathered in Washington on the president’s birthday for a muted celebration.
Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.
By most accounts, President Donald Trump's attention for the past week has been consumed by the spiraling crisis playing out between Israel and Iran. In between meetings in Canada on Monday, he peppered aides for constant updates. He has spent mor…
President Donald Trump says "successful" bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, including Fordow facility, which Israel struggled to target due to its location.
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Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed a Democratic candidate for New York City comptroller who has a history of making racist, sexist and homophobic statements online.
In his 22nd week, President Donald Trump manages tensions after Israel's strikes on Iran's nuclear sites while dealing with domestic unrest in Los Angeles due to anit-ICE protests.
Seduction and submission in the work of the Marquis de Sade.
The United States is a fraying society, torn apart by polarization, intense disagreement, and ratcheting extremism.
The Israeli attack on Iran is in line with its longstanding policy of never allowing its neighbouring enemies to acquire nuclear weapons. But it is also the latest episode in the wider war against Israel launched in late 2023 by Iran’s proxies.
Details about the discussions emerged after President Trump said the two sides, which have been locked in court battles for weeks, might reach a settlement soon.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an ally of President Donald Trump who has been speaking out against America becoming involved in the Israel-Iran conflict, called on her fellow citizens to pray that the U.S. doesn't fall victim to homeland attacks aft…
Since taking office in January, President Trump has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by de-emphasizing that history or at times denying that it happened.
If we hadn’t spent so long pretending that ‘trans women are women,’ the growing political movement to align our laws with biological reality wouldn’t have been necessary.
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…
Matthew Gasda’s new novel unfolds in a haze of empty dialogue and overwrought introspection.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has challenged Vice President JD Vance, a Republican, to face off in a debate, but Vance has not responded on X to the governor's post.
A new Reuters-Ipsos poll provides the unsurprising news that rank-and-file Democrats are displeased with their party's leadership.
Today’s events are another step in an ongoing effort to turn the U.S. military into a partisan—and personal—instrument of the president.
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…
President Trump is betting the United States can repel whatever retaliation Iran orders, and that it has destroyed the regime’s chances of reconstituting its nuclear program.
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President Trump is taking an enormous risk.
The strikes on Iran ushered in a period of high alert as the Pentagon braced for almost-certain retaliation against American forces in the region.
Many Americans support key parts of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s desire to "make America healthy again," according to new Axios/Ipsos survey results.
President Trump’s executive orders have sought to reframe the history of race and culture in America. Erica L. Green, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, describes how the orders have led to the erasing of history of the Black expe…
Vice President JD Vance said during a Los Angeles stop that Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass had encouraged protesters to engage in violence. He also criticized Senator Alex Padilla and called him by the wrong name.
The planes can carry bombs capable of striking an underground nuclear facility in Iran if President Trump decides to join the conflict.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Poised for More Power
The changes are the latest sign of the agency’s struggle with website crashes, overloaded servers and long lines at field offices amid Trump cutbacks.
Congress built a system 50 years ago to prevent another Nixon. Trump seems determined to dismantle those rules.
President Donald Trump, addressing the world after the U.S. military carried out precision strikes on the Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan nuclear sites, called the strikes a "spectacular military success" and said they were "completely and totally obl…
Newsom's victory lap after a Clinton judge upheld his lawsuit against President Trump last week looks even more buffoonish after a California appellate court just took another stab at his ego.
Bipartisan lawmakers condemn Trump's decision to strike Iran's nuclear facilities as unconstitutional, with calls to return to Congress for a War Powers Resolution vote
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The president does what his predecessors would not.
A transcript of President Donald Trump's speech on U.S. airstrikes on Iran on Saturday as transcribed by The Associated Press
It was here that Donald Trump descended into American politics.
President Trump's strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities drew support from Republicans Saturday, while Sen. Thomas Massie and Democrats raised constitutional concerns.
Trump rose to power criticizing Middle East wars. Now he may have his own.
In 2023, one popular perspective on AI went like this: Sure, it can generate lots of impressive text, but it can't truly reason - it's all shallow mimicry, just "stochastic parrots" squawking.
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…
Pressed by Angelenos, including a large Latino fan base, the Dodgers promised support but stopped short of denouncing ICE raids that have outraged much of the metropolis.
The bombing is a major escalation by President Donald Trump, tethering the United States to a conflict with no clear end in sight.