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John Thune told reporters he's confident Republicans can hold both chambers, but election forecasters see the House as a much tougher fight.
ORR officials say the former Acacia Center contract lacked accountability, with redacted invoices totaling over $20 million monthly for legal services.
Musk isn’t a military strategist or a seasoned diplomat. His genius lies elsewhere.
Senators have warned the White House they will withhold confirmation votes until the administration ensures the restoration of communications capabilities used by Ukraine’s military.
A Scottish museum’s removal of its mummy exhibition for lack of ‘consent’ severs a vivid link to people living thousands of years ago.
For all the buzz around a 'Catholic century,' evangelicalism is the denomination best placed to thrive in contemporary America.
Waltz blasted the Financial Times on X over the headline and article, calling them “garbage.”
Illinois Republican Party chairman warns Chicago's 12-language ballot system is "big city virtue signaling" that creates oversight gaps for election judges.
More than 70 percent of Big Five publishing staff are women, most of them from elite universities.
To make its impending victory last, my party should look to the center, not move further left.
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…
Sniffing at Elon Musk's latest stunt misses the point. The future moves forward one bold, impractical idea at a time.
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.
Two former FBI officials face charges for allegedly lying to Congress about their roles in investigating Hunter Biden's laptop and foreign ties.
Practical help with end-of-life decisions, guided by Catholic teaching.
The charges intensified the administration’s efforts to go after the law enforcement and intelligence personnel who cast doubt on unsubstantiated claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine.
Marco Rubio's foreign-policy address in Athens on October 7 was magnificent in both setting and substance. The setting? How about the Acropolis just before sunset on a clear day in early autumn? Standing on the Pnyx with the ruins of the Parthenon…
One of the most revealing exchanges in You Can See Everything centers on a single word.
Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Amy Hamm about Steven Galloway’s legal campaign against the University of British Columbia scholars who promoted baseless allegations that he was a rapist.
The Justice Department has opened an inquiry into Mr. Lewandowski. President Trump has not jumped to his defense.
Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly dissented as the Supreme Court let New Hampshire block student ID cards as ballot identification for midterm elections.
France’s protesters are rioting against austerity that doesn’t exist. Macron might as well give them the real thing.
President Trump says Venezuela is not ready for elections, and he focuses instead on its oil. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio is nudging talks between opposing politicians.
Anthropologist Robert Lynch on going from Wall Street to addiction to substitute teaching, why apes laugh, and why comedy needs risk.
Descano campaigned on the idea that deporting a criminal is "a perversion of justice," and my daughter paid for it.
An open letter to young men and women from an exasperated mother.
Brace yourself. The Democrats are coming.
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.
If Donald Trump could, he would fly to Munich to sign away Ukraine to Vladimir Putin, and return to wave the document as "peace in our time", hoping to claim at least the second Fifa peace prize.
Democrats have campaigned on lowering living costs and holding the Trump administration accountable. This is a look at their to-do list if they win the majority.
Self-knowledge is cheap and satisfying, but changing what we do takes years of tedious practice.
The department, in a highly unusual lawsuit, argued that confusion over candidates with similar names could taint the election result.
The move was announced by Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who faces a tough re-election fight amid rising prices.
Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.
The people anticipate anarchy.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
The Fifth Circuit called Judge Henry Wingate's handling of Mississippi's anti-DEI law challenge a "botch job" riddled with AI hallucinations and errors.
The donations from James Blair and Chris LaCivita were revealed after the president expressed pique over their consulting work for Republika Srpska.
Ilhan Omar insisted her real name is Ilhan Abdullahi Omar after a federal court filing listed her as Ilhan Nur Said Elmi in an immigration fraud probe.
Nathan Cofnas: what was done and what was owed.
The U.S. government has ordered diplomats and other federal employees to leave Saudi Arabia. It is also drawing down staff at other missions in the region.
Rep. Randy Fine says he plans to pursue House expulsion of Rep. Ilhan Omar if the Justice Department finds her guilty of immigration fraud.
President Donald Trump's Fort Myers rally spotlights the brazen hammer killing of a Florida mother by a Haitian national the White House says was released under Biden's border policies.
Two former senior FBI officials are facing criminal charges for allegedly making false statements to Congress during testimony in 2023 about the bureau's investigation involving Hunter Biden's laptop.
The Ukrainian leader faces escalating crises.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Capitol Hill braces for leadership elections as Mike Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries, John Thune and Chuck Schumer all face uncertain futures ahead.
Is there a way of bridging this divide?
‘The Hunterian takes the view that the Lady Shep-En-Hor deserves privacy in death.’
If the fraud allegations are proved, public office should offer no protection from denaturalization.
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…
A machine is not the moral equivalent of a human being.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
‘Her stupidity is one thing, but she’s a symbol of a much deeper problem.’
President Trump told the Justice Department to intervene in the race, where polling shows Republicans at risk of losing a seat.
For many years, I have prayed for something most people take for granted: the opportunity to see my father again. My father, Stephen James Hubbard, was taken into Russian custody in April 2022 in the Ukrainian city of Izyum. Our family has since e…
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
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The most parsimonious explanation for Carlson’s political project in recent years is that he has developed a hatred of Western liberal democracy.
The ruling, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, sharply curtails the ability of judges to free undocumented immigrants.
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.
Justice Kagan, while posing as a critic of partisan gerrymandering, is herself in favor of gerrymandering so long as it benefits the Democratic Party.
Last week in Paris, a mix of genuine protest, opportunistic violence and government failure from education policy to the police response.
Trump seized on reporting about Rep. Ilhan Omar's birth name and revived longstanding allegations involving her former husband.
I honestly don’t know how we undo the depths of the darkness of American politics today.
Vivek Ramaswamy's controversial ad featuring Amy Acton's mother sparked bipartisan outrage, but a strategist says Acton's COVID-19 record matters more.
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.
A look back at the cinema of Stanley Kubrick on the eve of a massive new Criterion retrospective.