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The Department of Justice's Alaska Senate race lawsuit faces hurdles as legal scholars debate whether anonymous ballot analysis can prove confusion.
Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who denied Cilia Flores' bond request and oversaw the Nicolas Maduro torture case, died at age 92 of natural causes.
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.
Judge James Boasberg, a frequent Trump legal foe, now oversees the fight to unseal the FBI search warrant used in the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's home.
Sen. Bernie Moreno blasted Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther over $225,000 in taxpayer dollars directed toward a Ghana nursing partnership program.
As Trump officials stump for Republican candidates facing difficult races, ethics experts say they are being lax about complying with the Hatch Act, a federal anti-corruption law.
A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of another James Fishback campaign.
Compute adds a kind of relentlessness to our intellect; it does not discover new horizons.
Politics of the Day
Dueling rallies in Lubbock put the Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico on full display as Trump joined the Republican side.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
There’s no discernible reason for the pause in tightening.
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 new book chronicling the lives of ancient figures, historian Guy de la Bédoyère describes the audacious power grab that almost unseated Rome’s second emperor.
Gemma Tognini and Claire Lehmann discuss One Nation’s rise, Albanese’s leadership, government waste and the antisemitism that Bondi exposed in Australia.
During his speech in the Greek capital, the US secretary of state dispensed with the hypocrisy that has cloaked America’s globe-spanning ambition in recent decades.
Lakesha Womack, who is running for the U.S. House of Representatives, said she was served with felony rental car charges at her own North Carolina campaign event.
The president's love of kitsch once charmed his base. Now it's finally failing him
Kudos to Kellen Browning and the Times for not letting Elisa Rios kill the story after they’d confirmed it.
Over the past decade, former mommy blogger Rowan (née Amanda) Jetté Knox has come out as bisexual, pansexual, polyam, a ‘giant lesbo,’ a ‘non-binary queer person,’ a polyamorous ‘trans guy,’ and, as of last month, ‘two-spirited’ (and Indigenous).
Even if these are stressful days to be in cybersecurity, they are hopeful ones.
Plus, ballot-stacking in Alaska and a polling surprise in South Carolina.
Mass culture was an anomaly of corporate organization meeting the technological paradigm of spectrum scarcity.
It seems that the effort to find a fake Dan Sullivan with which to confuse voters was not only intentional but far-reaching.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, submitted sworn statements to a federal court regarding the construction project.
The judge ruled that no immediate action was necessary, dealing another setback to the administration as it moves to target voting by noncitizens.
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she privately cautioned Israel against overreach after Oct. 7 and questioned Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership.
Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center say that federal prosecutors capitalized on the informant’s money problems and exposure to indictment to persuade him to assist the government.
The progressive Senate candidate has won over students with his politics-and, in at least one case, his protein intake.
Arizona Senate president Warren Petersen slammed Kris Mayes after she said the state has "too many golf courses" during a water conservation debate.
Add Beijing’s touchiness to the list of reasons why western companies should, if possible, not do business in China.
Everyone who is legally eligible and wants to vote should do so.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The fact that the case against the former White House aide was pursued at all reflects crisis conditions in federal law enforcement.
More than 70 percent of Big Five publishing staff are women, most of them from elite universities.
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.
Mao’s portraits glow ‘with an inner light, an unmistakable hint of the divine reinforced by mists, mountaintops, and suggestions of the miraculous.’
Representative Haley Stevens has been less than enthusiastic about Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, injecting late intraparty tensions into a race that could decide Senate control.
The education secretary says her old furniture “cannot be configurationally or aesthetically integrated” into new office space.
Keisha Lance Bottoms, in her bid for Georgia governor, has faced pointed criticism of her leadership in Atlanta and disappointment in her decision to leave after one term.
The Justice Department slammed Jay Jones' Election Day guidance as "bluster" after Virginia advised poll workers to call police on DOJ monitors.
Kiev will need to make painful concessions to guarantee its survival.
France’s protesters are rioting against austerity that doesn’t exist. Macron might as well give them the real thing.
For both Russia and Ukraine, the war has taken a staggering toll and poses an ever-greater danger of spreading.
Brazilian senator Flavio Bolsonaro has landed in the US after fleeing Brazil following defeat in the country's presidential election on Sunday.
This agenda should terrify conservatives.
Abdul El-Sayed accused Joe Biden of exploiting the Ayman al-Zawahiri drone strike to bolster his party's approval before the midterm elections.
Podcast host Jonathan Kay discusses the underlying societal factors that caused his country's journalists, politicians, and academics to uncritically accept false claims that the bodies of 215 Indigenous children had been found on the grounds of a…
Well, I’m back.
Being accused of trying to rig a system while running to unrig a system could be unhelpful.
The event served as a snub to Democrat Senate nominee James Talarico, who hosted his own Lubbock rally the same night.
The White House has been rocked by turnover and anxiety over the midterms. The president, who is tightening his inner circle, has lashed out at critics, held meandering rallies and feasted on a diet of news clips and “A.I. slop,” as one aide put it.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin blasts New York City after NYPD ignored ICE detainers and released an illegal immigrant accused of assaulting an officer.
Nathan Cofnas: what was done and what was owed.
From the riots of 2005 to the scenes of urban guerrilla warfare on 17 and 18 October, violence in French cities has grown increasingly intense. And the authorities are struggling to respond.
The president lashed out at the former representative after The New York Times reported that her campaign and national Democrats helped recruit spoiler candidates to the race. He offered no explanation of what crime was committed.
A Russian official said potential relief for a state investment fund was part of talks. Russia has sought to wring economic benefits from the negotiations on ending the war with Ukraine.
The political reporter outs many of his sources as liberal Republicans looking to undermine conservatives.
It is not misinformation, disinformation, or a crime to echo Democrats' longheld view that election machines are vulnerable to manipulation.
David Lewis’s classic study of Pacific wayfinding shows how Indigenous knowledge can be taken seriously—neither romanticised nor dismissed.
Mary Peltola's campaign allegedly ran a covert "ballot composition project" to recruit namesake candidates and split the vote against Dan Sullivan.
In the age of the smartphone, people ‘read’ more than ever before. But the reading of books, newspapers, and other long-form content has fallen dramatically—with detrimental effects for society.
Last week, we examined the House of Representatives and Democrats' potential to flip a large number of seats in 2026. In case you haven't read it (or don't remember it, after all that was more than a Zacharia ago), the basic takeaway was threefold…
In his letter, the vice president suggested an immediate resumption of comprehensive talks, including about Iran’s nuclear program.
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All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
How historic housing unaffordability-and resurgent tenant organizing-are reshaping the midterm elections.
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…