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What radar and jet propulsion were to World War Two, robotics and artificial intelligence will be to the next war between great powers.
President Donald Trump and his party need things to go their way this summer to have a chance in the fall.
Millennials in some ways have gotten a better deal than they realize.
An illegal alien in California was sentenced to 50 years in prison for producing child pornography involving his underage niece and nephew, DHS says.
Sure, he's not perfect, but on libraries, childcare and potholes, he's getting the job done. Why can't more politicians give a damn?
CBC-funded TV producers using fake names are ambushing Canadians who take a positive view of their country—including an 82-year-old Ontario grandfather who invited the film crew into his home.
‘It’s a geopolitical and a world-defining, epoch-defining technology potentially. And so we cannot afford to lose.’
And in the end it wasn’t even terribly close.
Trump calls on Senate Republicans to replace parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough after she blocked his ballroom security funding in reconciliation.
Expect the Texas Senate race to become the most stupendously expensive money pit in modern electoral history.
The political stakes are going to keep rising, and the financial stakes are huge, too.
The secretary of state is the son of immigrants who left Cuba before the Castro revolution to look for economic opportunities. Yet, he pursues change with the zeal of a political exile.
The Massachusetts Democrat led a sweeping overhaul of the financial industry and was one of the first openly gay members of Congress.
The war in Iran is entering an unpredictable new phase where the risk to energy markets is growing.
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.
If there is a ‘chilling effect’ in Massie’s loss, it will also be one that reinforces the desirable stigma around antisemitic agitation.
The legislation, which had been stalled amid Republican divisions, passed overwhelmingly, signaling an eagerness in both parties to address affordability in an election year.
California's ruling class turned decline into a business model, and Spencer Pratt's insurgent campaign is finally speaking to voters in the only language the regime can't ignore.
Democrats still searching for a way out of the rubble of the 2024 election got a peek in Tuesday's primaries of what their voters want for the future.
It’s no revelation that the U.K. economy is in a mess, and it’s no revelation that the Labour government rarely misses an opportunity to make things worse.
Calls to “globalise the intifada” have produced a wave of antisemitic terror and encourage an unending cycle of violence.
The president faced pressure from his base to endorse the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton. Advisers had urged him to support Sen. John Cornyn, arguing that Paxton has too much baggage.
Why the enormous fund is so controversial.
Massie went from principled libertarian during COVID, to GOP leadership lapdog under McCarthy, to anti-Trump Epstein obsessive in 2025 after tweeting about that issue a whopping three (3) times in the decade prior. The nail in the coffin for him w…
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…
Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, appeared frustrated with questions from House Democrats who pressed him on a range of issues about the conflict.
Georgia was among six states where voters participated in primaries Tuesday. Its Senate race is among a handful that could determine party control next year.
Trump says Democrat James Talarico can't win Texas Senate race because "he's a vegan in Texas," while endorsing AG Ken Paxton in the GOP primary.
The president linked the force’s mission to his own priorities, domestically and in Iran, in an address at the military academy in Connecticut.
The improbable story of rock’s greatest live album.
Truth was shoved aside in favor of feelings and subjectivism.
Republican senators are angry the president is working to unseat their colleagues. But he is also creating more free agents in his own party in Congress willing to defy him.
The U.S. Department of Justice and Florida Attorney General's Office announce the Miami grand jury indictment of former Cuban president Raul Castro for the 1996 murders of four U.S. nationals.
Many are saying Stephen Colbert is getting canceled to appease Trump. But the truth is that there are numbers that justify his demise.
The deal the president reached with his own subordinates relies on a mechanism created by Congress that legal experts had warned was subject to manipulation.
The murder of Brian Thompson was, in the Mangionistas’ view, the propaganda of the deed that should galvanize similar acts of terror.
Take a walk down memory lane with me. It's a midterm election, and things are not looking good for the president's party. A grassroots revolt has erupted among the opposition party, which has infused it with much-needed energy and citizen activism…
Trump defends Chinese students at U.S. colleges and remarks on farmland ownership, sparking backlash from Marjorie Taylor Greene and immigration hawks.
Rep. Ilhan Omar claims she had no knowledge of the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, pointing to Trump's role in signing the MEALS Act into law.
The demand comes as Senate Republican leaders wrestle with whether to include money for the controversial project in a bill that funds immigration agencies.
Nathan Schachtman’s indispensable new paper explains how the International Agency for Research on Cancer has misled the public with its classifications of carcinogens.
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.
Bragging about my PhD to general indifference during the second-most humiliating day of my life.
A veteran community activist, he believed self-reliance — rather than affirmative action or government help — was the way to fight racism, poverty and crime.
Our diplomatic correspondent Michael Crowley explains how Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has long lobbied for an end to the regime in Cuba, is ramping up pressure on the island.
Lawmakers passed a bipartisan housing bill backed by Trump that aims to make housing more affordable and restrict large investors from buying homes.
Parallel briefings by the two men offer a view of their contrasting styles.
New accountability rules could expose the childcare wage crisis and push states to fund early childhood work like the public good it is.
The Senate moves to prevent government shutdowns permanently with bipartisan legislation that would strip lawmakers of recess and travel privileges.
Prosecutors accused Carmen Lineberger of emailing records related to Jack Smith’s investigation to a personal account, charging her with a felony punishable with 20 years in prison.
Raúl Castro is 94 and no longer holds any official title, but he still wields enormous power, experts say, particularly over the military.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Donald Trump seems to have given up on Taiwan’s long-term future.
This is welcome.
For President Trump, the interest in Cuba is not new.
Lawmakers and online personalities speculating that a new X account belongs to Hunter Biden, drawing renewed attention as the former first son appears to launch a more public-facing media presence.
Aid cuts by the Trump administration have shut down crucial disease surveillance networks and medical supply chains in East Africa.
It's not poverty that drives men to violence, but the experience of losing status.
Worries about AI doom rarely take Darwinian evolution seriously. A new paper argues we should—but we are still further from that scenario than its authors suggest.
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All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The House GOP is resurrecting the Sunshine Protection Act. I wish it wouldn’t.
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Demographic disparities in medical and scientific knowledge show up long before admissions time. DEI manipulation at the end of the process doesn't solve the problem.
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 president offered journalists the closest look yet at the construction project, where photographers captured images of the work in progress and Trump touted security measures.
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Yesterday, Lord Daniel Hannan tweeted: A man is stabbed to death by someone who accuses him of being a racist - and the first thing the police do on arrival is to handcuff the dying man. Hannan speaks to a kind of reverse Stephen Lawrence syndrome…
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.
Investigating abuse is a duty. Laundering propaganda is not.
President Trump celebrated a sweeping primary night as his endorsed candidates won key GOP races in Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Idaho and Oregon.
In a fascinating new book, historian Anthony Bale vividly reconstructs the brutal, fantastical, and sometimes deeply religious experiences of medieval travellers across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Poland was set to receive forces whose deployment was abruptly halted last week.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy clashes with Democratic senators over corporate-funded Great American Road Trip as Americans face high gas prices.
The president has created a party that is loyal to him, even when he takes executive actions that anger the broader public. That dynamic leaves him weaker with those outside his base.
Cuban government and the Clinton administration held several meetings discussing the volunteer group’s flights.
Finally, opponents of such ideas have taken the threat seriously.
Alabama's Republican Senate race narrows to Rep. Barry Moore and former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson after a seven-way primary triggers a June runoff.
Kentucky's polls were the most closely watched on a day in which Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Oregon and Pennsylvania were also holding primaries.