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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…
Jimmy Kimmel selected her as one of his guest hosts when he takes two months off. Think she’ll tell some Trump jokes?
A federal judge ruled that the Agriculture Department lacked the authority to approve state waivers that restrict what SNAP participants can buy with their benefits.
In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that the president can expand the procedure, previously used primarily near the border, to arrests nationally.
Election misconduct in Minnesota.
District Attorney Larry Krasner is something of a bargain for Philadelphia. According to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, he has not only been serving as the city's prosecutor but effectively as its top public defender.
Sean M. O’Brien, re-elected to a second term leading the union, has used a relationship with President Trump to end court-ordered corruption monitoring.
The U.K.’s latest reforms are symptoms of a nanny state and an irresponsible populace.
U.S. official says VP JD Vance made great progress in U.S.-Iran peace talks in Switzerland, calling snub reports foreign propaganda from Iran media.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Images circulated by an activist group reveal bare marble where President Trump’s name once resided. The Kennedy Center previously told a federal judge it had been removed.
President Donald Trump issues full-throated endorsement of U.S. Rep. John James for Michigan governor prior to the Republican gubernatorial primary
The government has consistently lied about its interactions with people during Operation Metro Surge.
Trump endorses both Pamela Evette and Alan Wilson in South Carolina's Republican gubernatorial runoff, aiming to cover his bases in the race.
China’s ghost cities are like a mocking glimpse of the Chinese century we were told to expect, and for which we are still waiting.
Democratic pride in America has cratered since 9/11 while Republican pride hasn't moved. New polling shows just how wide that gap has grown.
Understanding what has gone wrong with journalism in the US requires an understanding of what has gone wrong with the country’s journalism schools.
Damon Landor, a Rastafarian, tried to sue Louisiana prison officials for violating his religious rights.
A tribute to David Hockney (1937–2026).
“We’re going to find ways to resist,” a defiant Janeese Lewis George, the democratic socialist who won the Democratic primary last week in Washington, said in an interview.
Discovering Craters of the Moon, a cinder garden, the Inferno Cone, and Number Hill.
Athletes have every right to reject Pride symbols that—as activists themselves loudly insist—signify an increasingly radicalised set of ‘queer’ political demands.
Philosopher Benedict Beckeld speaks with Zoe Sankey about oikophobia, the decline of the West, Islam's incompatibility with Western values, and why civilisations at the height of their power sow the seeds of their own undoing.
Twenty years after Katrina, the city's nearly all-charter district has transformed one of America's worst school systems into a model of academic improvement.
Western political will and good intentions are no match for a complex reality rife with conflicting interests and ideologies.
The DOJ is investigating a Brooklyn coffee shop that criticized Rep. Dan Goldman after he bought coffee there, saying it would have turned him away as a "genocide enabler."
The supposedly simple fix progressives are selling would require a record tax hike and further distort federal spending priorities.
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 ruling dealt with legal technicalities but is a departure from a series of decisions by the justices expanding religious freedoms in recent terms.
Vice President JD Vance is in a politically precarious spot.
Iran is not Saudi Arabia’s biggest problem.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Trump test their political influence as New York, South Carolina, Maryland, and Utah hold key primary elections.
Starmer out as prime minister is no fix in a country where voters keep denying victors electoral mandates.
Sen. Ruben Gallego allegedly used campaign cash to fund luxury family trips and cover childcare expenses, according to campaign finance filings.
Ukraine still remains ahead in the drone war, thanks mainly to a technological and operational lead that it has to maintain.
In the 29th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the birth of Montreal in 1642; and the Indigenous town of Sillery, where a new kind of native-born Christianity took root.
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A Chicago priest told Trump to shut up after his Truth Social post about Juneteenth weekend violence that left six dead and over 30 wounded.
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…
It's amazing to think Keir Starmer was sold to us Brits as Mr. Sensible.
SCOTUS struck a blow in favor of immigration authorities denying entry to green-card holders where they have committed crimes but haven’t been convicted.
If it’s bad when it goes up, is it good when it goes down?
Marc Miller spread misinformation about unmarked graves and supports the criminal prosecution of residential-school ‘denialists.’ Why would Mark Carney use him to front his new plan for regulating online content?
We can promote tree abundance quite well without granting them rights.
FBI says investigators disrupted the alleged UFC Freedom 250 plot targeting Trump's event after a concerned parent tipped off agents about her son.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
President Trump said the blooms of green algae and the peeling polyurethane had nothing to do with the rushed $16.4 million makeover he had ordered.
Throughout US history, social movements-from reformist to radical-have returned to the language and ideals of 1776.
Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, drew criticism from Planned Parenthood for voting to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who helped overturn Roe v. Wade.
Meeting a massive need for more electricians, welders and plumbers will take real ambition.
America's most powerful central banker and an apostle of freedom and free enterprise, Alan Greenspan, passed away at age 100 early this morning. May he rest in peace. He served as Federal Reserve chairman between 1987 and 2006. Nearly 20 years.
The court’s decision could have broader implications for whether companies can be held liable for aiding in international human rights abuses.
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"Social democracy is as much about a successful market economy as it is about an active state. When Labour forgets the first part of that sentence, we and the country lose. We've got to be as focused on wealth creation as we are on wealth distribu…
The Trump administration backed Exxon Mobil’s effort to be compensated for oil and gas assets confiscated by the Cuban government in 1960.
The old fight was labour versus capital. The real fight now is between those who create value and those who administer it, and Australia's new budget has picked the wrong side.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The Senate advanced the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a Trump-backed package aimed at preventing the U.S. from becoming a "nation of renters."
Ohio-based ScottsMiracle-Gro said it is donating “a combination of monetary and product support.” A government watchdog said the arrangement raises ethics questions.
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 you’re looking for a silver lining, it’s that Iran is already breaking the MOU, and the U.S. will be able to abandon its stated commitments to it.
The U.S. has hit Cuba with fresh sanctions targeting five state-run entities linked to the military conglomerate GAESA and the mining sector, expanding Washington's economic pressure campaign.
The DSA’s platform appeals primarily to younger voters. That’s a problem when most of the people going to the polls are older.
The midterm elections are approaching and with them the prospect that Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives and perhaps even the Senate. Even with a majority only in the lower chamber, the Democrats would have the power to to…
In his panic-stricken effort to disentangle America from the Middle Eastern mess, Trump now appears to be falling into line with Tehran’s wishes.
Trump administration prepares roughly $80 billion supplemental funding request to resupply munitions depleted during the Iran war.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced backlash for refusing to condemn a Brooklyn coffee shop that told Rep. Dan Goldman he was not welcome over his pro-Israel views.
Over the next two weeks, the justices will release more than a dozen final opinions, including high-profile decisions on birthright citizenship, the Federal Reserve and transgender athletes.
If this is a retreat from a government effort to influence coverage, it would be prudent and welcome.