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President Donald Trump is trying to lower beef prices ahead of the midterms.
Congress should fund modernized upgrades of the barriers instead of pouring more money into ineffective transit security measures.
Seven years ago, I warned that Democrats were "courting disaster" by turning their frustration with the Supreme Court into a campaign to remake it. Their 2020 presidential field was talking about adding justices, limiting their terms, and otherwis…
Treat a warming planet as an engineering problem rather than a moral failing, and it starts to look solvable.
A replacement press secretary may not be named for a while, advisers suggest.
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 RNC threatened legal action against New Jersey election officials over noncitizen voter roll records, giving all until Sept. 15 to comply.
The Covid debacle will define Fauci’s legacy regardless of how many pronouncements of support bioethicists make.
In a 22-page letter, the North Carolina Republican sought to rebut an ethics report that concluded he engaged in “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct.”
The top Democrats will gather party donors on Sept. 10, just as Republicans converge in Texas for their unusual midterm convention.
While his party debates abolishing prisons and owning grocery stores, Democratic Mayor Daniel Lurie is cleaning up his city.
There is a rather large difference between the banned books promoted by celebrities and genuinely transgressive and provocative writing.
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A search warrant executed at Omar's son's Minneapolis apartment led to police seizing guns and ammunition and arresting his roommate, Abdulrahman Abdi, a report says.
Two recent studies say judges are not doing enough to protect the public interest in openness.
Outrage over making Representative Jared Moskowitz, who is vocally pro-Israel, the top Democrat on a Middle East policy subcommittee reflected the party’s rift over Israel.
Data centers power everything from streaming and gaming to AI chatbots and fraud detection. Here's how they quietly run the apps you use daily.
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.
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.
A critical view on Canada-US relations, focusing on defense, trade, and political differences.
The unusual investigation appears to have a broad scope. Prosecutors have contacted D.C. Public Schools personnel to question them about truancy and graduation rates.
Former comedian Jimmy Kimmel is currently on a summer hiatus. This comes not long after ABC/Disney announced his contract would be renewed for only a single year. That year is up in May of 2027, Kimmel is closing in on age 60, and now he's talking…
The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison.
A new Echelon Insights poll raises the question: just how inevitable is this menacing Blue Wave?
Iran says a proposed Strait of Hormuz framework with Oman would exclude military vessels, but the White House won't say if Trump would accept it.
Another pointless foot-stamping gesture from a president incompetently locked into several simultaneous tire fires of his own making.
During a live interview on his show, Fox News host Jesse Watters asked Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, So you think it's OK for a parent to slash his kid's ding-a-ling off?...
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…
We should worry about the perverse incentives created by elevating a self-killer and punishing his enemies.
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison accuses Gov. Greg Abbott of making Texas a "sanctuary state for violent criminals" amid an extradition battle regarding an ICE agent charged in a Minneapolis shooting.
The Rest Is History podcast’s series on the Troubles is commendable.
Democrat Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro joined over 20 states suing to block Trump's new Title X conditions on life-affirming services and abortion.
Darline Graham Nordone's embarrassing debate flub on a basic question about U.S.-Taiwan policy didn't seem to matter at all in the election results.
The president also reiterated his criticism that Canada “treats us very badly.” Trade talks between the nations collapsed last week.
Homeland Security Secretary Mullin says James Talarico "won't tell the full story" about the deportation of a 5-year-old boy and his father from Texas.
The president is 24-for-24 in Senate primaries and 214-for-218 in House races, according to a Fox News tracker
President Donald Trump seems dead set on escalating his trade war with Canada. And no one is really sure why.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
What people don’t like is uninvited commentary from strangers on how to economize.
John Ratcliffe’s meeting this week with a Russian intelligence chief was aimed at pushing the Kremlin to pursue a peace deal with Ukraine.
Israeli governments have never decided what to do with the West Bank—so the settlers have begun deciding for them.
Earlier this month, progressive Abdul El-Sayed defeated moderate representative Haley Stevens for the Democratic nomination in Michigan's crucial Senate race - but by a much slimmer margin than expected.
The problem Third Way set out to identify endures, and it endures because the left’s linguistic signifiers are only a symptom of it.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Rafael Mariano Grossi, one of the world’s most respected arms control experts, backed the case for dialogue.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has accepted invitations to four debates ahead of November’s election in a state that has become crucial to each party’s potential path to power in the Senate.
Sometimes, you just need a mother’s comfort, and Dolly Parton wrote and sang with that enveloping warmth.
A cobalt-60 source from a disused cancer treatment device in Guatemala was removed over fears it could be stolen and turned into a dirty bomb.
The knowledge and infrastructure needed to engineer a pandemic pathogen, once confined to a handful of elite military and civilian research institutions, are quietly becoming more accessible.
Log Cabin Republicans announced this week that it is dropping the "T" from LGBT and will now describe itself as an "LGB advocacy organization." President Ross Hemminger wrote that the shift returns the group to its original mission, writing that i…
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The agency said two other non-law enforcement employees were also suspended in an unspecified misconduct investigation.
After reviewing the agency’s final plan to comply with President Trump’s demands, a federal judge barred the Postal Service from imposing new restrictions on mail-in voting.
The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
A professor at Case Western admits that many post-Dobbs predictions made by supporters of legal abortion haven’t come to fruition.
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.
Media expect hard-bitten cynicism from their politicians, but that’s not what they’re getting from the Democratic Socialists of America.
After the Supreme Court threw out the injunction against Trump’s executive order on noncitizen mail-in ballots, you might have thought the case was over.
‘Distrust in higher education, it seems, is no longer a Republican concern.’
Voters are clear in their demand for greater affordability, with college costs near the top of their list. Here's how to deliver it.
The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pushed back on President Donald Trump's executive order to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America" amid his trade war with Canada.
A novel study compared the issues survey respondents said were important to their physiological reactions in a lab.
Three journalists dismissed from Stars and Stripes accused the government of violating their First Amendment rights, asking the courts to stop their termination.
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A federal judge earlier ruled against Trump officials in a lawsuit accusing the university of allowing persistent antisemitism on campus.
A new exhibition curated by Lars von Trier provides a fascinating look at who and what has influenced one of the world’s most prodigiously gifted and provocative filmmakers.
A new site offers “officially unofficial” items “for a place that may or may not exist.”
President Donald Trump said he's making the change because “Canada has been ripping us off for a long time on trade, very sadly.”
A coalition of preservation groups says the regulatory, legislative and executive efforts pose the greatest threat in 60 years to a law requiring federal agencies to avoid harm to historic sites.
The legal fight over the controversial measure is expected to continue.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
There is a U.S.-led war in the Middle East and the midterm elections on the horizon, but President Trump’s latest priority seems to be “Making The Great Lakes Even Greater.”
The move amounted to one of the few major changes in West Wing personnel in Mr. Trump’s second term.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani twice declined to distance himself from NYC-DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo, who faces a pending rent case and scrutiny over his union credentials and family townhouse renovation.
President Trump originally intended to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 with remarks at ground zero, but the memorial’s organizers do not allow speeches. Mr. Trump changed his plans.
It’s worth hearing the other side.
Marine One's crew made repeated failed attempts to warn Reagan National before departing, leaving controllers unable to halt a commercial jet takeoff.
Increasingly, sociologists are expected to avoid research questions and theories that involve the role of culture in shaping societal inequalities.
The relative indifference to the news that the U.S. government now owes $40 trillion demonstrates how drastically the politics of deficit spending has changed.
Nothing that more tariffs can’t make worse.