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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed excessive spending on skin substitutes and wound care, claiming costs rose from $200 million in 2019 to $14 billion last year and were on track to reach $23 billion. Kennedy was speaking at a fireside …
U.S. Central Command will hold a daylong conference at its Tampa headquarters after seven months of war in Iran.
President Trump spent the day preaching to his most fervent fans, not the voters he will need to help elect or re-elect a slate of Republicans fighting in states from Alaska to Maine.
Berenice Ballinas accuses Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken of using a racial slur, questioning her sexuality and appearing intoxicated at city events.
On AI, Trump sounds like a techno-futurist - the opposite of the way he's sounded most of his time in office.
The discovery adds strong evidence that the outbreak that sickened thousands over the summer originated in the company’s fields or processing facility in northeastern Mexico.
Both contenders are airing spots intended to address perceived vulnerabilities.
House GOP Chairwoman Lisa McClain reveals the four key topics Republicans plan to hammer home in the final weeks before the November midterms.
An interview with the President at a pivotal moment in his second term
The director of national intelligence will help develop new policies, and potentially regulations, for the rapidly evolving technology.
The November midterms will test how much money matters when it comes to angry voters.
Leftists are trying to weaponize our legal system to bankrupt lawful industries in a last-ditch effort to tear down our capitalist system.
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Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The country reminds us that things could always get worse.
A lawsuit alleges that the Muslim-majority suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, has systematically discriminated against Christians and Jews.
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 additions include Kansas’s 2nd, Michigan’s 1st, North Carolina’s 13th, New Jersey’s 2nd, Oklahoma’s 5th, Texas’s 9th, Virginia’s 6th and Washington’s 5th.
Prosecutors want remote testimony for witnesses unable or unwilling to travel to Guantánamo. The defense wants jurors to be told that, guilty or innocent, the defendant will not go free.
A month before the midterms, the president is returning to Alabama and other places where his movement remains strongest.
In an Ipsos poll, 81 percent said they think tariffs ‘raise prices on goods I buy.’
DHS blasted Fairfax County, Virginia, after ICE arrested a Honduran illegal immigrant charged with child sex crimes whom the sanctuary county had released.
Hasan Piker's remarks about holding James Talarico accountable drew sharp rebukes from Ken Paxton and Ted Cruz ahead of the Texas Senate race.
The tragicomic obsession with disability and disease on display at the Last Ditch bar isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s been part of militant lesbian culture since the Cold War.
And what else happened this week under his administration.
IRS audit revenue dropped 35% after nearly 10,000 agents were let go, raising questions about whether federal workforce cuts are saving money.
Republicans are using the courts to hunt for noncitizen voters. Democrats worry the G.O.P. is trying make it harder for eligible voters to cast ballots — and paving the way to try to toss valid election results.
Catherine Liu’s new book makes some valuable points, but it fundamentally misunderstands the trauma culture it critiques.
I went on television to debate what makes a woman a woman. Four years later, I have a criminal conviction and face new charges that could put me in prison, writes Dora Moutot.
Kurt Olsen, who previously worked as Trump’s election security czar, resigned from the “grand conspiracy” investigation on Monday.
Former congressman David Rivera (R-Florida) maintained that, despite a $50 million lobbying contract from Venezuela’s government, he advocated for the removal of President Nicolás Maduro.
The anti-Israel activist class demands that every Democrat go along with the lie. But that crowd seems to know that the lie has an expiration date.
Nikole Hannah-Jones put racial solidarity ahead of her daughter’s education. Her daughter—and plenty of black parents—saw the mistake more clearly than she did.
Donald Trump's 32-state rally tour through deep red states has a hidden strategy that pundits are missing, says a veteran campaign strategist.
A coalition of 128 Republican lawmakers is urging the HHS Inspector General to review Planned Parenthood's federal funding for potential fraud or abuse.
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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…
Lawmakers are set to meet to amend the state's Major Economic Growth Attraction program to pave the way for state incentives for the plant near the Mississippi River in Lee County.
The Senate Leadership Fund’s pulling money from North Carolina is the latest signal the Republican Party is giving up hope of holding that Senate seat.
As billionaires become a popular political target, a new book urges Washington not to lose sight of a much larger, and quieter, group of wealthy business owners.
NR’s investigations into Washington State were announced as finalists for the Daylight Award.
American technology combined with American values will be our best competitive advantage.
The Church of England and the failures of interfaith politics.
President Donald Trump's firing of court-appointed U.S. attorney Roger Rogoff was blocked by Judge Stanley Bastian, sparking a separation of powers clash.
May his life continue to work miracles.
An OpenAI agent’s breach of a Medicare portal shows that the real danger from AI is a mundane one—and the labs’ fixation on a coming machine god is making it worse.
Could a Democratic-led House actually do anything about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act? Maybe not.
A former student at Cornell University filed a lawsuit last week alleging harrowing details of a 2024 sexual assault and rape by seven male students.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
So what would it mean to turn back the clock?
As in 2006, it doesn’t feel like a boom.
In a court filing, attorneys for Christa Pike allege that Tennessee officials failed to follow their own lethal injection protocol.
U2 reconsidered at fifty.
Amazon's commitment to community-focused data center development, plus introducing Built Together, a new investment program for data center communities.
In 1967, left-wing intellectuals accused America of genocide in Vietnam—they were wrong then, and they’re wrong again now.
The Arizona governor's race isn't the highest-profile contest this year. But it isn't one that Dems want to lose, either.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews AI expert Gary Marcus about the possibility that a rogue artificial intelligence will turn us all into paper clips.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Senate Democrats have challenged the legality of a Pentagon equity stake in Venezuelan oil company NABEP, but the State Department fires back sharply.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has increasingly become a campaign issue unto itself. Some candidates have worn opposition from AIPAC as a badge of honor or made a point of rejecting the group’s support.
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
Sales of big pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles have dipped as more Americans buy hybrids and smaller cars.
The legislation is part of a bipartisan backlash against a technology that has been abused by law enforcement.
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…
In a recent speech to American academics, a Quillette editor explained how Canadians convinced themselves that 215 child corpses had been discovered in an old apple orchard.
Iran’s death throes have been violent, but death throes nonetheless.
‘Let’s not try to whitewash what Nixon actually was.’
Polls show close contests in competitive Senate races and rare independent polling in Virginia congressional races.
Price stability hasn’t been restored when inflation keeps coming in above 3 percent.
Against the state execution of Christa Pike.
Prosecutors have long considered the defendants’ admissions during interrogations in 2007 to be their best evidence.
The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive.
The American Association of University Professors is now mainly a leftist political outfit.
Trump’s low standing with voters limits the places he can most effectively campaign. Advisers hope he can energize GOP voters.
Iraq's foreign minister warns ISIS fighters could cross from Syria as Baghdad prepares its forces just one day after the U.S. military withdrawal.
The Justice Department filed a judicial misconduct complaint against seven Minnesota federal judges over a New York Times immigration interview.
Nithya Raman defended her use of "genocide" to describe Israel's actions in Gaza and backed the BDS movement at a tense Jewish community forum.
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.