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Lori Chavez-DeRemer spent Labor Department funds on personal travel and tolerated harassment in the agency, its inspector general found.
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 planned 250-foot-tall structure near Arlington National Cemetery is one of the president’s top construction priorities.
Californians will vote on Proposition 40 in November. If it passes, it will establish a one-time 5% wealth tax on California's billionaires, who have accumulated more than $2 trillion combined. The tax will deliver up to $100 billion to a 2026 Bil…
A U.S.-based Australian Rules Football league allows trans-identified men to play on women’s teams. When one turned out to be a convicted sex criminal, no one wanted to talk about it.
Ending the pernicious influence of wokeness on higher education means ejecting those elevated to positions they didn't deserve.
The move gives candidates more time to sell themselves to voters. It means little, if any, legislation is likely to pass Congress before November.
Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, announced plans to start work on the site of the 250-foot-tall triumphal arch. Final approval of the project is still pending.
The court’s order contains a pretense that is impossible to justify.
President Donald Trump has backed plans including permanently fencing Lafayette Square that were previously rejected to maintain public access to the “People’s House.”
Black was a client of Epstein’s; he’s sued the House Oversight Committee over its Epstein investigation after ignoring a subpoena.
Why is everyone so scandalized? It’s not like the president’s face isn’t everywhere already.
I’m grateful she helped highlight the possibilities for creative coalitions.
Judge Indira Talwani said the Postal Service appeared to be trying a haphazard “experiment” with a new rule that could result in valid ballots being tossed.
Energy affordability will be a central issue for Michigan voters in the November election. High gas prices, rising electric bills, lost jobs due to the closing of a major generation plant, and increasing opposition to data centers are near the top…
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
JD Vance says he's "looking forward" to seeing Joe Biden at the World Trade Center 9/11 ceremony alongside former presidents and Rudy Giuliani.
Egyptian-American Muslim and Democrat Michigan Senate nominee Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (aka Abdul El-Sayed) has been running around for months smearing Vice President JD Vance's family as racist. Earlier this week, Vance himself struck back. O…
The union and federal prosecutors agreed that organized crime groups had been rooted out of union operations, the judge wrote.
President Javier Milei has dialed up Argentina’s claim over the British territory, while President Trump has raised questions about longstanding U.S. neutrality on the dispute.
The Smithsonian Institution faces threats beyond its $1 billion federal funding as Trump administration claims evidence of antidiscrimination violations.
In the first White House press briefing since Karoline Leavitt left as press secretary, the vice president suggested that when the conflict would end was up to Tehran.
As election season hits the home stretch, Democrats want to nationalize the midterms. Oddly enough, the president wants to help them.
The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocked the GOP-drawn map, and President Donald Trump called the ruling "ridiculous" before November's vote.
The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
JD Vance refuses to set an artificial timeline on Iran, citing Strait of Hormuz attacks and a full pivot from diplomacy to military pressure.
The Trump administration does not know how to use American power to expand American influence, and its officials do not care to learn.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Doug Burgum announced the start of excavation on the 250-foot Great Triumphal Arch in Washington, D.C., but a lawsuit challenges the project's authorization.
Thousands of the illegal migrants who poured into the Spanish city are still there.
The vice president also defended Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from recent criticism.
A conversation with Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee about public health, outside money, and a new kind of politics.
We should be grateful that our republic is, in a few important ways, a democracy of the dead as well as of the living.
After Ms. Steinem’s death at 92, celebrities and politicians reflected on her decades of activism for women’s rights and equality.
The White House launched a gaming website with MAGA remakes of Snake, Flappy Bird, Duck Hunt and Tetris designed to highlight Trump's second-term wins.
Treat a warming planet as an engineering problem rather than a moral failing, and it starts to look solvable.
Federal appeals courts have split on the question, making Supreme Court review likely.
An unorthodox survey suggests it’s time for the Australian government to concede defeat in the tobacco wars. Will it have the guts to do so?
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…
A thrash-metal classic turns forty.
The president suggested to Dan Driscoll, who clashed with the defense secretary, that he could stay through the midterms, people familiar with the matter said.
The move came days after the resignation of Daniel P. Driscoll, who had clashed with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the purge of top generals in the Army.
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Don’t confuse expressing opinions about evils done by foreigners with providing material assistance to the victims of those policies.
The Chinese Communist Party cannot and will not accept that its time in the sun has passed. But the public knows.
In addition, Maryland’s high court cleared the way for voters to decide in November whether to back a plan to eliminate a GOP-held seat in 2028.
President Donald Trump has kept most of his super PAC money on the sidelines and been reticent on his spending plans, worrying Republicans ahead of this fall’s elections.
Because masculinity guru Scott Galloway is progressive, he cannot really cope with men except to see them as objects needing care from a technocracy.
As Chris Murphy walks the length of his state for the 10th time, he warned that those in his party must tell voters how the economy benefits the ultrarich.
Benjamin Azariah Southworth allegedly posted videos calling for President Donald Trump's assassination and targeted the family of his attorney.
The House CCP Committee demands a DHS briefing on enforcing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act as Chinese goods from slave labor reach U.S. markets.
Sydney psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed on why men who quit work aren't depressed but demoralised, and how mental health labels became a rival source of status and dignity.
To be naked is to give up obsessive self-presentation and take off the mask.
A federal panel again paved the way for one of President Trump’s construction projects, even as it heard opposition to another proposal to fence in a park north of the White House.
The vice president credited Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s diet of high protein and sauerkraut for his weight loss during his first press briefing since the departure of Karoline Leavitt.
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.
Google avoids accountability again, this time in advertising tech. Why do judges bother to find companies guilty of running a monopoly if they're unwilling to break them up?
The case is the first known instance of the Justice Department seeking to prosecute a federal immigration officer for actions taken during the Minneapolis operation.
His need to assert dominance is igniting patriotism abroad and a backlash at home
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Benjamin Ryan about his journalistic adventures reporting on AIDS, monkeypox, gender activism, and the Jason Arday saga.
Watching Gillo Pontecorvo’s film six decades after its release permits a nuanced understanding of the events that it portrays, which was unavailable when it first came out.
The justices have been asked to weigh in again on the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict mail voting — this time on whether the plans violate the Constitution.
American medicine spends like the Yankees when it's really the A's. The VA proved eConsults cut specialist waits from months to hours. The $50B RHTP can too.
The Justice Department plans to send 1,000 monitors to polls and voting by mail could be tricky if you don’t plan ahead.
Thomas Ross allegedly conspired to plant cocaine and Adderall in his Republican rival's purse, but his campaign manager wore a wire for the FBI.
A Biden-appointed judge blocked President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order, calling it "almost certainly unconstitutional."
The question of whether President Donald Trump’s restrictions can move forward in time for November’s midterm elections has been the subject of a dizzying legal battle in recent weeks.
An essay that continues to astonish.
The situation in Iran is improving, but there seems little reason to think an end to the war would be a boost for the GOP in a difficult midterm contest.
They are upset that drivers may not need to put as much corn into their gas tanks.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Kamala Harris spent well over $1 billion in her abbreviated 107-day presidential campaign two years ago, a huge sum. But on Election Day, the sitting vice president found her image was underwater. According to exit polls, her favorables were at 46…
Mary Peltola touts Alaska oil production in her Senate bid, but in Washington, D.C., she urged colleagues to vote against her own ANWR drilling bill.
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…
Christopher J. Waller, a Federal Reserve governor, sounded optimistic about inflation’s trajectory but indicated he would support higher rates if progress does not continue.
Critics of his talk at the RJC are missing the forest for the trees and, also, misunderstanding some of the trees.
Patricia Fox testified how sanctuary policies left daughter Carissa Aspnes minimally conscious while Colorado Medicaid denied her in-home nursing care.
When the Democratic Party has already been consumed by antisemitism, a lot of people are genuinely worried about whether Republicans will go the same way.