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It was foolish for the Trump admin to pick this fight rather than trying to present an argument laser-focused on non-domiciliary transient birth tourists.
Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist, unseated Representative Diana DeGette in a Democratic primary to represent the Denver area.
Yellow school buses, Buc-ee’s, shooting ranges, and other marvels.
Scott Colom challenges Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in deep-red Mississippi and is backed by George Soros' top advisor and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
The president plans to fly to rural North Dakota to open Roosevelt’s library as aides tout comparisons between the two.
Lawyers for John O. Brennan said they want the materials saved in anticipation of bringing a vindictive prosecution motion if charges against Mr. Brennan are ultimately filed.
A bare majority of Supreme Court justices ruled that President Trump’s executive order was unconstitutional, reflecting a conservative shift on the issue.
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 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.
The Boeing 747-8, a gift worth $200 million from the Qatari royal family, has attracted considerable scrutiny over whether a foreign government was trying to influence the president.
Humans have not merely been shaped by evolution—we have shaped it too, through the environments we chose to inhabit and the lives we chose to lead.
Kamala Harris spoke with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and met with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, signaling a possible 2028 presidential run.
The New Jersey Republican has explained the reason for his long absence: depression. Now he must convince voters that he deserves another term.
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.
Republicans are defending seats in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas as they try to maintain their majority. Democrats are competitive in all six states — but not leading in enough to take the chamber.
The SAVE America Act has extensive provisions on the requirements for an individual to register to vote in a federal election. The Act is premised on a simple idea: Anyone registering to vote in a federal election should provide proof of U.S. citi…
Corning partners with Nvidia to build optical fiber factories in North Carolina and Texas, creating 3,000+ jobs to meet surging AI infrastructure demand.
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Gov. Tim Walz called the Supreme Court ruling on transgender athletes in women's sports "cruel," sparking backlash from Minnesota conservatives.
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…
A democratic socialist ousted a veteran congresswoman in Denver, and a U.S. senator lost his bid for governor. But the state’s other senator fended off a progressive primary challenger.
These days, the person giving that speech is often a political activist with no connection to the school itself, or to education at all.
The decision is the latest in which the Supreme Court has weighed in on campaign finance rules.
Melat Kiros becomes the 28th far-left endorsed candidate to win a Democratic primary, ousting 15-term incumbent Diana DeGette in Colorado's 1st District.
Diana DeGette, the longest-serving member of the Centennial State’s congressional delegation, was bounced from her seat by Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros.
Democratic candidates are generally popular, Times/Siena polling finds, but retaking the Senate remains a big challenge.
Russia has borne the heavier toll, with 1.4 million troops killed or wounded since it invaded in February 2022.
We fact-checked the president’s colorful — and inaccurate — accounts of American history from the Battle of Gettysburg to the Unabomber.
Total disclosure, as Spielberg imagines it, is a beautiful thing to watch. It is also a fantasy.
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Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is facing a problem of Black voter enthusiasm in Texas after defeating Rep. Jasmine Crockett, according to party insiders.
Keir Starmer is just the latest victim of a political reality created by Brexit—one that has, counterintuitively, turned Britain into a European country.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims he balanced New York City's budget by taxing the rich, but critics point to a multibillion-dollar Albany bailout.
The challenge for our generation is therefore not simply to preserve the American inheritance but to extend it
Trump is making it exceptionally easy for Democrats in a midterm election year.
The career arc of Canadian Paediatric Society president Natasha Johnson helps explain why her country has become such an outlier in the treatment of trans-identified children.
RNC chair Joe Gruters predicts Republicans will dominate at the party's first-ever midterm convention, calling the Dallas event a "Trumpapalooza."
The ruling is the latest blow to the LGBTQ+ community, which has faced repeated losses at the Supreme Court in recent years.
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Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
A sitting Democratic House member and a sitting senator both lost key races in the state.
In an interview with FOX News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President J.D. Vance said communism is the result of the Democratic Party being run by universities and professors.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pressed President Trump earlier to cripple Iran. But as Iran asserted its power, the prince urged a cease-fire, and is now pursuing his security priorities.
Jefferson emerges as a man who doubted democracy's permanence yet placed his faith in future generations. Onuf and Cogliano rescue him from caricature—even if one dimension of his thought remains in shadow.
The Supreme Court's ruling in the birthright citizenship case poses a political challenge for President Donald Trump.
The Supreme Court gave the parties back some measure of agency over who represents their respective brands. But that’s only half the battle.
As our nation celebrates its 250th birthday, Americans can rightfully swell with pride at the democratic revolution that began a quarter millennium ago. Our Founding Fathers started a tradition of government of, by, and for the people that has spr…
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We celebrate, 250 years later, because it’s a miracle to have inherited the great cause of mankind.
The justices pushed back on some of President Trump’s signature moves, but they also expanded presidential power and supplied victories on long-sought conservative goals.
We don’t have to pretend that anarchism and Marxism are just another flavor of progressivism. They’re not.
Zohran Mamdani's allies want to abolish the police, prisons, borders, and capitalism. None of them have said what comes next.
The Supreme Court handed down the final decisions of its term on Tuesday and they reflected what we have seen all year: It is a very conservative court, and although it usually will rule in favor of President Trump, there are times when it will sa…
Of all the things that would shock the founders 250 years in, it would be that the Supreme Court would have to grant the power for states to ban biological men playing in women's sports.
The Trump administration says it has ended 65 years of paper-based federal retirement processing at a limestone mine 230 feet underground in Boyers, Pa.
The US vice president’s new memoir leaves an unflattering impression of its author.
The source of the new energy taking over the Democratic Party isn't Democratic Socialism. It's something far more exciting
Nearly 250 years on, Laclos’s novel of seduction and treachery continues to scandalise.
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Babies born during America's 250th anniversary celebration will receive limited-edition Social Security cards featuring the official Freedom 250 logo.
Almost 1,000 pages of financial disclosure forms show that the president’s earnings far outpaced his $600 million total income in 2024.
Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist, unseated Representative Diana DeGette in a Democratic primary to represent the Denver area.
Victor Davis Hanson on the American founding and its critics.
It is nothing short of stunning that Trump came one vote away from persuading the court to repeal the bedrock of the Reconstruction Amendments.
The justices allowed the president to fire a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, striking down a nearly century-old precedent intended to insulate independent agencies from political influence by the executive.
The issue isn't whether America inherited English legal language; it's whether it inherited England's understanding of political membership.
FOX News contributor Mollie Hemingway reacted to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship.
Critical theory did not merely politicise scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce.
Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres urged transparency from officials after House Republican Tom Kean revealed the previously undisclosed reason for an extended congressional absence.
And a searching view of Reformation-era England.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The continent with the lowest number of hot days leads the world in heat mortality. Europe’s self-inflicted aversion to air conditioning betrays a deeper hostility to energy and to progress itself.
Is Harris finding a left lane for a 2028 run?
Donald Trump debuts new Air Force One Boeing 747 donated by Qatar on inaugural flight to Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota.
The ruling striking down President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship reaffirmed that the 14th Amendment automatically confers citizenship on any child born in the U.S.
The appeal is scheduled to be heard on September 9.