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The ruling from the Southern District of New York found that the policy went beyond Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s legal authority.
Sen. Jim Banks warns Donald Trump's immigration executive orders face erasure without Congress locking seven bills into law before midterms arrive.
Twenty-four centuries ago, Xenophon and his 10,000-man Greek army found themselves trapped at the heart of the Persian Empire. Their amazing escape, described in a new book by Robert L. O’Connell, is a tale for the ages.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Forecasts warned of $200 oil if the war ran past June. Regional exports, while below pre-war levels, rebounded faster than expected, and the United States has become the world's largest oil exporter. Iran's threat to trigger a weapon of mass econo…
Stacy Adair says she was reprimanded for wearing an "XX ≠ XY" chromosome shirt to a training event raising fears about her job security.
Should the desire to commit suicide justify admission into hospice to make their dying by starvation and dehydration easier to complete?
Our future depends on building schools and colleges that will teach students actual subjects and instill in them the values of a free society.
Might Canada’s fate foreshadow that of other advanced but dependent democracies, clinging to old ideals of cooperation and diplomacy as they’re rolled under the treads of China’s or America’s naked self-interest?
Undercover FBI agents who posed as Islamic State facilitators say the Albany resident spoke of attack plans and sought help with explosives.
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 disgraced academic was a pathological liar and lifelong con artist whose misdeeds were covered up for years by self-serving academic administrators. Exposing this kind of rot in elite institutions is our job.
Increasingly, sociologists are expected to avoid research questions and theories that involve the role of culture in shaping societal inequalities.
Martin’s clashes cost him jobs as U.S. attorney and as head of the Justice Department’s “weaponization” group.
A fiscal reckoning will arrive if old-age entitlements are not reined in.
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…
Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola missed 794 of 4,265 Alaska House votes and over a third of Bethel City Council meetings, records show.
The Trump administration is pushing to eliminate the approach at the federal level, but states like Maryland continue to pursue
A federal judge ruled Secretary of State Marco Rubio lacked authority to order immigrant visa denials for applicants from 75 countries found eligible.
Hinckley’s statements make it all the more clear just what a pivot point in history the failed Reagan assassination attempt might have been.
One of the more striking developments in American politics over the past three decades has been the transformation of the Democratic Party from a big-tent movement built around working-class Americans into an elite-driven institution obsessed with…
Angie Nixon, a state lawmaker from Jacksonville, shocked Democrats in red Florida by soundly defeating her centrist primary opponent. Now comes the hard part.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The president sought to recast opposition to Graham as opposition to him. “They’re only fighting Darline because they want me to lose,” he told the crowd in Myrtle Beach.
The back-to-school issue is an NR tradition.
Race preparations have snarled traffic, rerouted flights and forced the National Gallery of Art to conduct vibration tests.
President Donald Trump will award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug. 28.
Congress finally created workforce Pell Grants. Now states have to build the systems that can tell which programs actually work.
Something extraordinary happened in Britain this week: Our leftist government acknowledged a truth it has long denied.
A dad says families objecting to a trans school teacher are being told public school may not be for them, while another speaker said children of “bigots" could be relocated.
Joe Rogan said Wednesday that democratic socialists' entire ideology "sucks" and accused those supporting the progressive movement of being "Marxists" fueled by what he described as manipulative social media rhetoric.
A democratic socialist manages to build the coalition that has long eluded the left.
John Thune used unanimous consent to recess the Senate for five weeks, but all 100 senators agreed to leave without debating the SAVE America Act.
Mr. Newsom, the governor of California, normally has harsh words for President Trump. But he called the new children’s savings accounts “one of the best things” the president has done.
For the Americans who contribute to AIPAC, things have changed a lot in the last few years.
There is a rather large difference between the banned books promoted by celebrities and genuinely transgressive and provocative writing.
Trump’s appearance on Cohen’s radio show — their first public conversation since a bitter falling out — seemed to suggest their relationship had been mended.
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Laugh them off if you please — there is plenty to laugh at. But do not doubt their sincerity. There are few dangers greater in politics than sincere fools.
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.
A study shows a modest decline in soda purchases, but it’s not clear that the results will hold up in the long run.
Fund manager Geoff Wilson tells Claire Lehmann that Labor’s new capital gains tax will drive Australian capital out of growth companies and into franked dividends—and push a generation of founders offshore.
The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison.
David Maywald on the female wage premium, the rites of passage boys no longer have, and why the science on sex differences keeps losing to ideology.
Infertility is a brutal, heart-wrenching experience. IVF isn’t necessarily the solution. Medically, morally, practically.
The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists.
USPS finalized a rule requiring states to share voter lists for mail-in ballots, but a federal injunction on Trump's executive order blocks it.
The first batch of names are of the Clancy children. The second, the Yates children. They are all the names of young children killed by their mothers.
The administrative stay gives the court more time to weigh an emergency appeal by the Trump administration in a lawsuit challenging the project.
It is indisputable that energy is the lifeblood of every civilization. We are reminded of that truth daily at the gas pumps and when it's time to recharge the latest iPhone. Another indisputable truth is that the availability and affordability of …
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Trump aide Natalie Harp is estranged from her brother, Preston, who has used social media and recent interviews to criticize her and highlight his own left-wing politics.
New filings find the Democratic National Committee trailing its Republican counterpart by more than $100 million, with millions of dollars in debts.
Ernesto Alejandro Perez-Garcia admitted to lying to ICE agents about his identity in Redondo Beach before being confronted with his own mugshot.
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.
Mike Rogers launched a Democrats for Mike coalition as Jewish voters express alarm over Abdul El-Sayed's Israel stance and Hasan Piker ties.
Israeli governments have never decided what to do with the West Bank—so the settlers have begun deciding for them.
Lawmakers and 2026 candidates on both sides of the aisle are questioning whether Flock cameras have proliferated too quickly.
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.
Vice President JD Vance traveled to his hometown, Middletown, Ohio, and spoke at a steel factory where his grandfather once worked.
The Senate candidate had leveraged his national fame to raise more than $16 million before losing Florida’s Democratic primary.
Representative Thomas Kean Jr. was joined Friday on the campaign trail by House Speaker Mike Johnson. An aide to Mr. Kean blocked a reporter’s entry. Then the police were called.
President Trump was in South Carolina to stump for Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey. But his own political future was on his mind, too.
Bad polls. Misleading betting odds. Surveys meant to shape narratives. Ahead of the midterms and 2028, there is suddenly serious confusion about candidate strength and voter sentiment.
‘They’re winning, but they’re winning by sacrificing the hard-won intellectual gains of a generation.’
The plan, which complies with President Trump’s executive order to curtail mail voting, will only go into effect if the Supreme Court rules in the order’s favor.
Get some two-part primer out and put some names we can be proud of on those big beautiful hulls.
So far, Trump has responded with a mixture of half-hearted persuasion, denial and threatening bluster.
Amy Klobuchar issued over 1,000 press releases since 2022 but never once mentioned Minnesota's $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scandal.
We managed to develop a bill that transformed welfare offices into job-finding offices. The centerpiece - replacing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families - created incentives that encourag…
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Sammy the Bull Gravano told the FBI that James Comey "had to know" the term 86 meant killing someone, contradicting Comey's denial in his federal case.
Democrats seeking Senate seats in some swing states are taking aim at party leadership — and even supporting Republican policies.
One of the things about politics that people love to hate is polling. To a certain extent, this antipathy is entirely understandable.
A conversation with Jennifer Lahl, founder of the Center for Bioethics and Culture, on surrogacy, AOC, IVF and the White House, and more.
A moderate Republican from Kansas, she served three terms before tiring of political strife. “I couldn’t get elected today,” she said in 2013.