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Today on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Tom Bevan moderates a discussion with Joe Abraham, whose daughter Katie was killed in a car wreck caused by an illegal alien on Jan. 19, 2025, in Urbana, Illinois.
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.
South Dakota Republicans worry that she might return.
Neuroscience’s challenge to free will misses the point: consciousness and choice emerge from complex systems, not individual neurons.
Months before a mass school shooting in British Columbia, OpenAI employees raised alarm about the shooter's violent chatbot prompts and debated calling police, but ultimately opted not to, according to a new report.
A prosecutor apologized for failing to alert the magistrate to a 1980 law that restricts searches for reporting materials.
The annual dinner with governors at the White House is typically a chance for leaders from both parties to come together, socialize, and spend a low-key evening with the president.
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.
The diverging approaches from hospitals in New York and California preview of what could become a fight over compliance, and threatening millions in federal funding.
When can an influencer opt out of the news cycle?
Almost a quarter century ago, in the second year of George W. Bush's miserable presidency, a campaign was launched to draft Bruce Springsteen as a candidate for one of New Jersey's US Senate seats. Polls showed Springsteen would be a viable conten…
The PAC and the White House say the donation had nothing to do with President Trump’s tirade against a new bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
President Donald Trump announced Saturday morning that he will raise the existing 10% worldwide tariff to 15%, escalating his administration's trade agenda a day after a Supreme Court ruling addressing his tariff authority.
Middlebrow movies weren’t just two-hour escape pods, they functioned as a civic glue, a source of shared language, cross-generational references, and indeed, contemporary American myth.
President Donald Trump slams Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for stumbling through Taiwan defense question at Munich Security Conference, calling her diplomacy embarrassing.
Press-led hysteria and institutional cowardice are inflicting needless damage on higher education.
President Donald Trump on Saturday endorsed Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Gov. Greg Abbott for reelection, praising both Republicans for their leadership and alignment with his political movement.
The Republican-led House said Jesse Jackson cannot lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol. The NAACP criticized the decision.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Matt Shumer’s viral essay about AI is part of a long history of fear produced by technological change.
The CIA's commitment to advancing leftist activism appears to span at least three presidential administrations beginning in 2015.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of ensuring the separation of powers by striking down President Donald Trump's tariffs.
The U.S. military buildup in the Middle East near Iran signals that a confrontation is increasingly likely and any strike should be "overwhelming and devastating," former Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie said Saturday on Newsmax.
Trump’s immigration crackdown has Latinos wondering if they belong in his America.
The president is plowing ahead with an unpopular policy after the Supreme Court’s rebuke, deepening his party’s risk in the midterm elections.
President Donald Trump called one Supreme Court justice his "new hero" after the high court blocked his presidential tariff powers in a 6-3 ruling.
Maryland sheriff fears ending law enforcement's cooperation with ICE will lead to more chaos on the streets, after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed legislation ending long-standing 287(g) agreements.
Jared Bernstein: Relief might not be forthcoming if the president is able to quickly replace the tariffs that were struck down.
A pair of rulings on tariffs and National Guard deployment mark the justices’ first major decisions against the president. More may be coming.
Federal agents seized a phone, two laptops, a recorder, a portable hard drive and a Garmin watch in a search of reporter Hannah Natanson’s home last month.
The United States government (USG) should not go to war with Iran. Iran's nuclear program is not a meaningful threat to the United States. How Iran is governed, how its government treats its people, and who the Iranians trade with is none of our b…
Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wisc. told Newsmax Saturday he is interested in hearing what the Clintons have to say about their relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, even if they aren’t the most honest people.
The nearly immediate removal of longtime litigator James W. Hundley continues a clash over control of one of the country’s highest-profile prosecutor’s offices.
Some state election officials say they no longer trust their federal partners.
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.
A recent memo written by MAHA Action President, Tony Lyons, sheds light on the importance of the MAHA vote in the 2026 midterm cycle.
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In his concurrence to the ruling invalidating President Trump’s tariffs, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch made a forceful case for the sanctity of the legislative process — and an implicit critique of its current dysfunction.
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 U.S. appeals court has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms to take effect.
Legal specialists on the use of lethal force have said the strikes are illegal, extrajudicial killings.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Friday that Congress bears responsibility for the legal uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump's use of emergency powers to impose broad tariffs.
President Donald Trump on Saturday approved Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser’s request for federal disaster assistance as the nation’s capital works to clean up the Potomac River following a sewer line collapse.
Some reluctant Republicans say an old-school filibuster showdown with Democrats could paralyze the Senate with no guarantee of success. But President Trump and their own colleagues are spoiling for the fight.
Democrats criticized the appearance of the president on the headquarters of a department that has long prided itself on being independent from the White House.
President Donald Trump announced that a 10% worldwide tariff is now being raised to a "fully allowed" 15% in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling.
Where else would we start, besides Oren's thoughts on the Supreme Court tariff ruling:
The activist’s assassination unleashed anti-Semitism that is pulling the Trump coalition apart.
This week, there's been a lot of attention focused on the U.S. Supreme Court, thanks to its stunning decision blowing up the rationale for Donald Trump's tariff agenda. In his bitter remarks about the decision, the president went out of his way to…
Dick Morris predicted President Donald Trump and Republicans will keep control of Congress in the midterm elections, saying on Newsmax Friday that conditions he views as favorable to the GOP will override the historical pattern of the president's …
Elon Musk is touting the Department of Government Efficiency’s release of open-source Medicaid data as a transparency breakthrough. But prosecutors and privacy experts say converting online tips into courtroom convictions could prove far more comp…
The DHS secretary is suddenly talking about more than just mass deportations.
The sight of Canadian police and journalists extending fraudulent courtesies to a trans-identified mass-murderer may prove to be a clarifying moment.
A group of ex-members and veteran lawmakers have advanced an unusual lawsuit that could lead to larger salaries.
In rejecting President Trump’s tariffs, the court’s six conservative justices displayed subtle differences in their views of executive power.
Trump's face on DOJ banner sparks fierce criticism from Democrats who call it authoritarian imagery questioning department impartiality and weaponization.
President Donald Trump signed a disaster declaration for Washington, D.C., allowing FEMA to coordinate emergency relief efforts over the Potomac River sewage crisis.
Obama Presidential Center taxpayers face hundreds of millions in infrastructure costs with no federal agency tracking total public spending on the project.
The ruling deals a major blow to his signature economic policy and represents a stinging political setback.
An Israeli former National Security Council official examines Australia’s anti-Israel protests, the rise of antizionism in Western academia, and the growing crisis of democratic confidence across the West.
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 decision adds to economic uncertainty, as deals Donald Trump struck with other countries are upended
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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…
Fixing New York’s affordable housing isn’t as simple as going after bad landlords.
The Secret Service will begin providing two tailored suits to newly trained agents assigned to protective details, a change that officials and people familiar with the decision framed as an effort to reduce out-of-pocket costs for new agents and p…
More than a dozen House Republicans from districts with a significant Coast Guard presence are urging President Donald Trump to ensure Coast Guard members are paid as the Department of Homeland Security remains shut down.
The ruling deals a major blow to the president’s signature economic policy and represents a stinging political setback.
The court displayed its independence in what was a stinging rebuke to President Trump, though the ruling is unlikely to have an immediate effect on prices.
Thane Rosenbaum told Newsmax Saturday that the Supreme Court's rejection of President Donald Trump's IEEPA tariffs turned on a straight reading of statutory text, with "textualists on the courts" concluding "we don't see an emergency here" and tre…
At least 60 attack aircraft are parked at the base, which has become a key hub for U.S. military planning for possible strikes on Iran.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke Saturday about home affordability and ripped ICE as he faces criticism for floating potential property tax hike.
Labor Department deploys specialized "strike team" to California over alleged unemployment fraud and $21 billion in improper payments during the pandemic.
For a decade, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was arrested on Thursday, advocated globally for U.K. trade, cooking up deals that at times made his family cringe.
In Sudan, a civil war involving Arab supremacists backed by the UAE has left as many as 400,000 dead and displaced twelve million. The silence on campus is deafening.
The paper of record for the nation’s capital cut a third of its staff this week. It didn’t have to be like this.
The race is on to build a base for permanent human habitation on the Moon.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) has signed legislation that includes congressional redistricting maps that could favor Democrats 10-1 if voters pass a referendum.
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…
Although many leading MAGA voices are quieter than they were in June, some foreign policy experts who have advocated a more limited approach have continued to raise the alarm.
Historian Gadi Taub discusses media leaks, military censorship, and the Sde Teiman controversy in Israel—and his defamation suit against Ronen Bergman.
Almost five years after falsely claiming it had found graves of 215 Indigenous children, the Kamloops First Nation has announced the supposed crime scene may never be excavated—but could instead be preserved as a ‘Sacred Site.’
The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”
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A.I. companies, along with allied groups and executives, spent at least $83 million on federal elections last year, and huge amounts are set to arrive this year.
Tehran thinks a drawn-out conflict could eventually yield a better deal than what Trump is offering today
The move signaled that the president would press ahead with steep global import taxes despite the legal setback from the Supreme Court.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
If you think tariffs came to an end with today's Supreme Court decision, think again. If you think President Trump's whole reciprocal trade policy came to an end, think again. If you think Justice Brett Kavanaugh's dissent was the right idea, you …
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The poll found disapproval among men, women, all racial and ethnic groups and across educational backgrounds.
President responds to Supreme Court ruling by announcing an immediate 10 percent global tariff under a different legal authority and warned that more drastic measures could follow.
Populist rhetoric is exceptionally effective for pursuing and gaining power, but it provides no program for the complexities of actual governance.
Americans under 30 swung to the right in 2024, but they’re not getting what they voted for.
They say they want to save democracy. First they’ll need to get out of their own way.
Trump’s team wants a reset on its mass-deportation goals, not a retreat.