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Trump's endorsement of Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette faces a key test in South Carolina's GOP gubernatorial primary after his Iowa-backed candidate lost.
It's a quiet Tuesday morning in Sacramento. On any given weekday this past year, the City of Trees is normally bustling with state workers heading to their offices, construction workers hammering away at the new Capitol Annex, or City Parking Enfo…
With or without Trump in attendance, the security threat to Madison Square Garden would persist.
Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, has unabashedly courted the president’s favor. Soccer officials privately ask, who really benefits?
The Israeli leader has long exploited divisions in Washington. But Trump's dominance over his party gives him unusual leverage over Israel's next moves.
Jewish testimonies before Australia's Royal Commission paint a portrait of a culture already transformed—one in which Jewishness has become a professional and social liability
‘All men are created equal.’ As the late great historian wrote in NR, ‘No phrase could have been more radical, more momentous.’
Eileen Wang pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent. But what could Beijing want from the mayor of a small California city known as the “Chinese Beverly Hills”?
The turmoil engulfing CBS News and "60 Minutes" has left me wondering what my grandfather Andy Rooney would make of it all.
For Spencer Pratt's supporters, the last four days of the Los Angeles mayoral primary vote-counting and conclusion were like a gut punch delivered in slow motion.
Trump declared of Israel and Iran, ‘I call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots.’
The proposal was seen as a possible measure of how residents felt about the recent flood of money into the city as a result of the A.I. boom.
The president is using the slow count of mail ballots in California to renew his effort to cast doubt on election outcomes he doesn’t like, despite a lack of evidence of any widespread fraud.
Ever since he attained the age of majority some four decades ago, Terence Hamilton, now 57, has voted in Mississippi's Second Congressional District, covering 30 counties across the western part of the state. First drawn in 1986 to comply with the…
After a U.S. Army helicopter went down, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that the "pilots are fine" and CENTCOM later issued a statement about the episode.
For the sake of the traditions America loves most — no more punting on this issue.
America depends on global order-and can restore it.
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Some Knicks fans say the president is not welcome at Madison Square Garden.
You might expect that new high school graduates would be depressed and dejected. They are inheriting a shaky economy, a world at risk of becoming uninhabitable, and a country whose president makes a mockery of what they learned in social studies a…
The NYC chief seems more concerned with race politics than kids’ needs.
‘There is no place for this kind of horrific violence in our community.’ Okay, so now what?
Hava Mendelle — army veteran, nurse, and co-founder of Minority Impact — speaks with Zoe Sankey about antisemitism in Australia, the red-green alliance, October 7th, and why she left the activist left behind.
Ukraine wants the U.S. to sign a major drone production agreement, but there’s some unexplained foot-dragging.
Follow President Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
The #CancelColbert saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed.
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.
The Republican senator from South Carolina has a well-funded primary challenger who has a chance of forcing him into a runoff election.
Sen. Susan Collins calls Democratic challenger Graham Platner too extreme for Maine voters, while Platner charges Collins is the "radical" candidate.
When pressed by host Kristen Welker, the president cited no evidence for claims about Jan. 6 and elections he said were “rigged.”
As Trump clamps down on Netanyahu, the Israeli leader is finding he has few avenues of appeal among American politicians.
Florida GOP gubernatorial primary candidate James Fishback wants to close every abortion clinic in the Sunshine State and replace them with crisis pregnancy centers.
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…
The Maine Republican, who is in the middle of a tumultuous re-election race, became the first senator in history to reach the threshold without missing a vote.
Trump projects confidence in Iran nuclear deal despite unresolved uranium enrichment disputes and a fragile ceasefire that nearly unraveled.
"Border Czar" was among Vice President Kamala Harris' greatest liabilities; "Fraud Czar" could be VP JD Vance's biggest asset.
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Graham Platner faces controversies in Maine's Democratic Senate primary as Trump's endorsement power is tested in South Carolina's GOP gubernatorial race.
It was not immediately clear what led to the incident, which came at a time when the cease-fire in the war has grown tenuous.
Two years ago, U.S. Steel said it couldn't afford to keep operating its oldest mill near Pittsburgh. Now, new owner Nippon Steel 5401 0.37%
SPLC interim CEO Bryan Fair will testify before the House Judiciary Committee as the nonprofit faces an 11-count indictment for alleged fraud.
Todd Blanche faces tough Senate confirmation as Trump's AG pick, with Republicans divided over anti-weaponization fund and Jan. 6 rioter concerns.
Journalists should resolve to treat their Indigenous sources as real-life human beings—as opposed to mystic savants who channel sacred and unfalsifiable ‘knowings’
Republican senators signal support for pulling CBP officers from sanctuary city airports as Mullin says the proposal is still actively being considered.
This case shows how quickly tragedy becomes raw material for those who seek to exploit it.
The most consequential weakness of philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock’s new polemic against assisted dying is its failure to engage with the empirical record.
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.
It’s a shame representatives today don’t share Mr. Madison’s political sensitivity.
Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Kathleen Stock about her new book, ‘Do Not Go Gentle’—in which she argues that governments should be denied any institutional role in facilitating the death of their citizens.
Four years into the full-scale invasion, Ukraine bears little resemblance to the country Russia expected to defeat in a matter of days.
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 promises to be a bloody good time.
Latest California governor primary results as Democrats Katie Porter, Tom Steyer and Xavier Becerra and Republicans Chad Bianco, Steve Hilton vie for nominations to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Author Quinn Slobodian has won acclaim for his attempt to link the famed Austrian economist to right-wing extremists. But his arguments collapse under scrutiny.
The vice president writes that he had urged his wife, Usha Vance, to have another child for years, but she had said she was “done.”
Any indication of tepid support for Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, will be seen as a warning sign about his chances against Senator Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent.
One wonders if there were actually pro-life advocates who fully believed Donald Trump was ever a convert to their cause.
It’s a loss for his country, a month before its 250th birthday, to be deprived of one of the most eminent historians of the American Revolution.
Washington and Tehran would need to defend any potential deal as a win for their side. And each has a leader whose approach to talks is vexing mediators.
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…
American Bridge is hoping that Republicans are vulnerable in parts of the country that had been exceedingly tough terrain for Democrats in recent elections.
The legislation, which the Senate passed Friday, has been held up by disputes over President Donald Trump’s ballroom and the $1.8B payout fund.
The exchange, after Tehran’s first such strike on Israel in two months, threatened to further complicate efforts to broker a peace deal aimed at ending the war.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
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All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Trump has long viewed legacy media as adversarial, and his 'Meet the Press' interview helps illustrate why, whether one agrees with him or not.
Former campaign director says Graham Platner shouldn't be a senator, citing scandals ahead of Maine's Democratic primary against Susan Collins.
It creates all manner of perverse incentives in the primary process.
Maine Republican Rep. Laurel Libby says Graham Platner's Green New Deal support and extreme policies pose a greater danger than his personal scandals.
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Haaland could make history as the first female Native American governor if she’s elected.
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British liberals exclude reactionary cranks like Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur because they don’t have the stomach for a fight.
Senate Republicans hit 50 votes on the SAVE America Act during a vote-a-rama, but the filibuster blocked the voter ID bill from advancing further.
Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, has retained Jake Greenberg, the former top investigative counsel to the House Oversight Committee.
We tend to think we have one national anthem, but to me, we have always seemed to have two. The first is the official one, "The Star-Spangled Banner." The second is "Battle Hymn of the Republic." The two are different on every level. Only one of t…