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Political influencer Hasan Piker lashes out at OFAC subpoena over his Cuba trip, calling it an "intimidation operation" with a chilling effect on speech.
James Murdoch is taking over New York magazine and Vox, building a different media company than his father's.
In the last couple of days the Iran war has been going through another one of the up-and-down news cycles - in which some sort of resolution seems imminent and then not so imminent - that have become a familiar story.
President Trump has alternated between bullying the justices and cozying up to them as the court prepares to announce major decisions that will determine the fate of the key aspects of his agenda.
For years, courts have welcomed cases brought by self-represented litigants. Now those plaintiffs have A.I., and their filings are consuming more and more bandwidth.
Nasire Best, 21, had cut off contact with even his closest friends and began claiming that he was Jesus Christ.
A new book about Stephen King’s early novels will only appeal to hardcore fans, but its very existence is a reminder of its subject’s incalculable cultural impact.
Meghan McCain shared news of her brother Douglas Shepp McCain's death Sunday at 66. The eldest son of Sen. John McCain was a retired Navy pilot.
By John Kass Sunday May 24, 2026 The media has an odd term for the sullen young women who have made a sexual fetish of pretty-boy killer Luigi Mangione. They're called Luigi Fangirls. It evokes a frolic, young women skipping down the street, singi…
The Kentucky congressman and his admirers need to understand why he lost.
President Trump is trying to create individual lists of citizens by state to determine who can vote, even as his administration acknowledges they would be unreliable.
Ten California mayors push back against Gov. Newsom's high-speed rail funding plans, opposing the use of local taxpayer money after 16 years of no track.
Economists and local grocers warn NYC Mayor Mamdani's plan for city-owned supermarkets could crush small businesses while sticking taxpayers with the bill.
This is the Church at her best in engaging culture: Making Church teaching clear and guiding the faithful through the moment’s most confusing challenges.
Saikat Chakrabarti, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s former chief of staff, is running in San Francisco to succeed Representative Nancy Pelosi, whom Mr. Chakrabarti irked with an incendiary tweet seven years ago.
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The Secretary of State said the United States was prepared to begin those talks if Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz as part of an apparently emerging deal on the war.
Two-time NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Busch passed away yesterday at the age of 41.
Net-zero Britain might be more concerned with tackling climate change.
On Memorial Day, military families remember the Iran conflict’s fallen and navigate heartbreak without mothers and wives.
In New Delhi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to explain why President Trump has pushed aggressive trade and immigration policies affecting India and Indians in the United States.
From the murder of a five-year-old Aboriginal girl to Melbourne's tobacco wars, Andrew Bushnell joins Zoe Sankey to examine the human cost of Australia's broken justice system.
May 23 2026
Exploring choice in educational programs.
President Donald Trump's inner circle fired back at former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Sen. Ted Cruz's criticism of Iran peace efforts.
Politicians, no longer content to leave elections to chance, are working to choose their voters as often as every two years.
Spencer Pratt draws national attention, as he tells the truth about the city's ills and mayor Karen Bass.
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.
In highly competitive House races that Democrats need to flip in November, the left is betting that calls for universal health care and taxing the wealthy will resonate — even among Republicans.
Graham Platner, a Senate candidate in Maine, blamed private equity for destroying “our favorite baseball team.” NESN, which is owned by the team, pulled his campaign ad, citing an intellectual property violation.
The contest between the incumbent John Cornyn and his challenger Ken Paxton will culminate in a Tuesday runoff. Here are the developments that shaped the campaign.
Happy Memorial Day. May it be equal parts reflective and joyful.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating to determine who shot the bystander, who underwent surgery, and how many bullets were fired.
Creating NGOs that misuse the language of human rights is an effective strategy for advancing terrorist goals.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Combat veterans and GOP senators denounce Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner for calling soldiers trash and mocking a Purple Heart recipient.
Sen. Thom Tillis warns Trump's decisions are "killing our chances" for Republicans to hold the Senate, escalating a feud with the president.
Europe’s AI regulations are already driving innovation abroad, ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet warns.
Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale Law School professor Sarath Sanga, co-author of a new report explaining why the American public is losing trust in the country’s colleges and universities.
Worries about AI doom rarely take Darwinian evolution seriously. A new paper argues we should—but we are still further from that scenario than its authors suggest.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
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 president trumpets claims that he is in excellent health, but independent physicians say the White House hasn't answered key questions ahead of his third visit in 13 months.
Donald Trump seems to have given up on Taiwan’s long-term future.
‘A lot of it reads like it was written by ChatGPT because it’s so saccharin.’
In a fascinating new book, historian Anthony Bale vividly reconstructs the brutal, fantastical, and sometimes deeply religious experiences of medieval travellers across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Ice has no consciousness. It can’t reciprocate with people in any manner whatsoever. Glaciers have no ‘agency.’
“The stupid stuff is killing our chances,” said a retiring Republican senator.
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…
At Gibraltar, at the tip of Spain, British forces are ready to deploy autonomous mine-hunting equipment if a peace agreement is achieved.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
My nephew's schoolmate sang at Eurovision last week. Here is what the people who booed him don't understand.
If crypto is a vehicle for criminals to sell pieces of the U.S. to its enemies, you’d think the stewards of American interests would take a firmer line against it.
Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong called to defund and abolish police in posts made before and during her time as an elected official.
Virginia prosecutor Ryan Mehaffey refuses to enforce Gov. Spanberger's new assault weapons ban, arguing it violates Second Amendment protections.
The ruinous price increases that took place during the Biden-Harris administration do not get a mention.
Susan Owens’s handsome new monograph reconsiders the life and career of the English landscape painter John Constable.
The White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooting is the latest in a growing series of security threats and incidents involving President Donald Trump.
Some links to early commentary and summations on Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical.
The academic left turned on Azar Nafisi for criticizing Iran’s regime.
Five years after it helped promote a nationwide social panic over ‘unmarked graves,’ the Globe & Mail admits those graves might not actually exist—while also suggesting that it doesn’t really matter anyway.
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.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Trump's immigration reforms are not targeted at India but applied globally during a news conference in New Delhi.
According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the final survivor will be gone by 2037, severing our firsthand connection to the greatest calamity in human history.
Rep. Ilhan Omar responds to Rep. Nancy Mace's proposed constitutional amendment that would bar foreign-born individuals from serving in Congress.