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The Declaration of Independence at 250.
Bill Frist, a surgeon who also served as Senate majority leader, has emerged as an outspoken advocate for environmental health. “A healthier planet means healthier people,” he said.
Trump has floated ways to disrupt the 2026 midterms, from mail voting crackdowns to ICE at the polls. Here's why voters still have power.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett told the Essence Festival that America owes Black women "everything," sparking fierce online backlash over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Trump says he's attending the NATO summit in Ankara because of Erdoğan, signaling closer U.S.-Turkey defense cooperation amid unresolved S-400 tensions.
Claire Valdez's Fourth of July post calling for "liberation from Palestine to Puerto Rico" drew sharp bipartisan backlash.
Manny Rutinel helped pass the Kelly Loving Act, which deems deadnaming and misgendering as coercive control in child custody court decisions.
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Since returning to the White House in 2025, President Trump has repeatedly denounced the Smithsonian’s museums. The latest salvo came on the nation’s 250th birthday.
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House Judiciary Committee report alleges South Korea's far-left government has systematically discriminated against American companies like Coupang.
The two Americas faced off over Independence Day Weekend, the nation's 250th birthday. To the Left and the ruling class, it was the worst-case scenario. How could they celebrate the administration they've called "fascist" for ten years? And worse,…
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…
Students with a right-of-center inclination aren’t interested in learning from climate alarmists or school-choice opponents.
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 decision by FIFA to rescind U.S. striker Folarin Balogun's one-game suspension followed a rapid response from the Trump administration-and a personal call from the president.
The government-funded savings accounts for children became available on Saturday.
The cause of the crash was still under investigation, but the military said it was not the result of hostile fire. A total of 14 U.S. service members have been killed in the war against Iran.
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.
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.
To understand the intent of the US Declaration of Independence, recall that its primary author was a deist rather than a Christian.
President Donald Trump said in a Sunday Truth Social post that he "overturned" a decision to nix July 4th festivities in D.C. on Saturday
Restrictions on party committees violated the Constitution-and gave Democrats an advantage.
What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
Credit President Trump for getting Chinese house church pastor Ezra Jin released from a Chinese prison.
An institution under attack from the Trump administration provided relief from the weather on July 4 — and a chance to ponder what it means to be American.
Critics slam Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson after Essence magazine dubs her "the people's champion" on its cover, saying justices aren't celebrities.
The Supreme Court’s ruling means that changing the law will take longer and be more wrenching than it would otherwise have to.
As NATO leaders gather in Turkey, they are preparing for another summit shaped as much by managing President Donald Trump as by the alliance's security agenda.
Total disclosure, as Spielberg imagines it, is a beautiful thing to watch. It is also a fantasy.
The state senator sought to carve a middle path between a left-wing candidate and one backed by the party establishment, but she gained little traction.
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Congressional interns, usually seen but not heard, are taking to social media with viral trends and pithy posts about their outfits, lifestyles and jobs.
If it were not extraordinary enough that Gianni Infantino has paid more visits to the Oval Office than Sir Keir Starmer, along comes a World Cup decision so heavy with political overtones that it takes the breath away. Folarin Balogun, the former …
Raul Castro's right-hand man says he's ready to lead Cuba and negotiate its future with U.S. President Donald Trump, in exclusive USA Today interview.
Blues Beach and 136 acres of Mendocino County coastline now belong to Kai Poma after Caltrans approved the first tribal land transfer in state history.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers a speech marking America's 250th anniversary:
What makes America great, according to Zohran Mamdani, and the only thing that makes it great, is that it can be fundamentally changed by people like him.
James Talarico praised Texas drag queens as "some of the best" while criticizing a drag show law, drawing sharp attacks from his Republican rival.
NGO Monitor founder Gerald Steinberg on how Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and the UN's "civil society" experiment were hijacked — and why journalists still buy it.
Fund manager Derek Francis tells Claire Lehmann that Treasury's modelling of Australia's new capital gains tax contains a basic error — one that could push tax rates on shares as high as 70 percent.
A 162-page White House report accuses the National Museum of American History of ideological capture and abandoning straightforward education.
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You can read as many history books as you’d like, but there’s nothing quite like stepping into the past and experiencing it for yourself.
The reversal of Folarin Balogun’s World Cup suspension is highly unusual. It was the first time since 1962 that FIFA has nullified a suspension for a red card received during the World Cup.
The makers of nicotine pouches are building new plants and expanding to meet demand. While influencers claim health benefits, experts warn the products can be highly addictive.
Attitudes in the party have shifted, Democrats say, with a growing appetite for outsider candidates vowing to overhaul the system. Some worry that the trend could be costly in November.
Comparing yourself to others locks you into a contest you can never win and makes other people’s wins feel like your defeats.
Typical drones travel (relatively) slowly. These new ones from Russia do not.
At 250 years, America's (fault) lines are showing.
Zohran Mamdani's allies want to abolish the police, prisons, borders, and capitalism. None of them have said what comes next.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
We have a choice between two conflicting worldviews: one of freedom and dignity, the other of a regimented society based on submission to the ideology of a ruling elite.
Spencer Pratt called New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani a "vile, commie" after the mayor used July 4th to criticize ICE and American history.
Needless to say, it is a mistake.
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…
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The greatest country on earth deserves to be celebrated.
The president placed his image and initiatives front and center, blurring the line, critics said, between loyalty to nation and loyalty to him.
America’s strength has always been twofold.
Thirty years as a high-functioning neurodivergent project manager.
If you can chip in, it makes a big difference.
A whistleblower letter alleges Richard Maroko and New York Hotel Trades Council leaders accepted gifts from hotel executives in quid pro quo dealings.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Serving for 30 years, he eventually wrote virtually all tax laws considered by the House and was a major influence on budget bills as Ways and Means chairman.
The technocratic class has not yet abandoned its dream of establishing international rule by experts.
Trump has run out of cards to play in the midterm elections, which is why he's now talking about the "communist menace."