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The existence of the new lawsuit is a reminder that the slush fund controversy is unfolding on multiple fronts.
A new House bill targets the OPT program's payroll tax loophole after ICE found over 10,000 foreign students tied to suspect employers in fraud scheme.
A provocative discussion about patriotism, innovation, deterrence, and whether the U.S. still has what it takes to defend itself in a rapidly changing world.
Poland was set to receive forces whose deployment was abruptly halted last week.
The guitar ‘community’ is rebelling against a recent move by guitar manufacturer Fender.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
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.
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.
It wasn't Stephen Colbert's ideology that sank him. It was his arrogance.
Two House Democrats vowed to force daily expulsion votes against Texas candidate Maureen Galindo over her antisemitic remarks about American Zionists.
The Massachusetts Democrat led a sweeping overhaul of the financial industry and was one of the first openly gay members of Congress.
In interviews, Martin Short has been discussing the terrible losses of his life.
Jan. 6 rioters, George Santos, Mark McCloskey and Rod Blagojevich: A wide range of figures are eyeing the president’s new settlement fund.
In promoting Bezos’s remarks, the left undermines its contention that the impossibly wealthy contribute nothing to the federal treasury.
My nephew's schoolmate sang at Eurovision last week. Here is what the people who booed him don't understand.
Critics say the deal creates a “slush fund,” a term with a colorful maritime history.
Ballots went out last month for leadership positions at the American Sociological Association. Here's some advice for candidates: Emphasize your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion credentials.
The RNC says it secured a consent judgment requiring North Carolina to purge noncitizens identified through jury-duty excusals from voter rolls.
The aftermath of the Tower of Babel had more sense than this.
Donald Trump seems to have given up on Taiwan’s long-term future.
Industry trade groups reject the administration's claims, saying the rollback of the Biden-era regulations would actually drive up prices.
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Once seen by some as the most conventional of President Trump’s political appointees, Todd Blanche has taken off the gloves in his new role as acting attorney general.
An incomplete report on what went wrong in 2024 was released after becoming and embarrassment for the Democratic National Committee.
Congressional report alleges U.S. banks helped CATL, which partners with Stellantis and Ford, raise capital despite Chinese military designation.
God rest the soul of Barney Frank. You don’t have to endorse his politics or his lifestyle to appreciate the wisdom in his living to the end.
The possibility that the prize-winning story was not written by AI is worse.
DNC Chair Ken Martin publicly disowns Democrats' 2024 election autopsy report, saying it does not meet his standards after their defeat to Trump.
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 Justice Department claims that clinics used fake diagnoses and kickbacks to parents to bring children into treatment.
Amid hostilities with Iran, the American military expended far more advanced interceptors to protect Israel than Israeli forces did, according to Defense Department data.
Investigating abuse is a duty. Laundering propaganda is not.
Nathan Schachtman’s indispensable new paper explains how the International Agency for Research on Cancer has misled the public with its classifications of carcinogens.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs executive order citing concerns that Trump administration could use immigration enforcement to intimidate Virginia voters.
An Alabama man challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests.
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…
Rep. Ilhan Omar forcefully denies VP JD Vance's claim that the DOJ is investigating her for alleged fraud and immigration violations in the U.S.
Data-center water use sounds alarming in absolute terms, but the industry’s relative demand is far smaller than critics suggest.
Senate Republicans break with Trump over his $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, raising concerns about who gets the money and where it comes from.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Havana Docks arms the current administration with an additional lever over communist Cuba.
Whatever the reason turns out to be, it won't fit neatly into any mainstream political ideology.
Republicans are using a special mechanism that was created to reduce deficits to push through immigration enforcement funds that should be provided in a regular spending bill.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
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…
AI companies want to monetize what makes us human. Organized labor may be the only force strong enough to stop them.
The Trump administration backed lawsuits brought by the Havana Docks Corporation that would allow the U.S.-owned entity to get compensation for property confiscated by Fidel Castro’s regime.
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.
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.
It's not the partnership anyone predicted. Mark Cuban, who spent 2024 campaigning for Kamala Harris, stood beside Donald Trump at the White House on Monday to announce a major expansion of TrumpRx. The site is adding more than 600 generic medicati…
What radar and jet propulsion were to World War Two, robotics and artificial intelligence will be to the next war between great powers.
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.
In 1945, the United States stood alone in its strength, industrial supremacy, nuclear monopoly, and no peer competitor. It chose not empire, but order. Through Bretton Woods, the Marshall Plan, and a durable security architecture, Washington did n…
Barney Frank's near-expulsion in 1989 reminds us why Congress should punish misconduct carefully, and let voters decide when possible.
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson reverses her Starbucks boycott stance as the coffee giant announces a massive corporate expansion in Nashville, Tennessee.
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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.
For me, peak Colbert has been what he's done with "The Late Show" since he got fired. It's akin to the way Republican Gov. George Ryan cleared death row in my home state of Illinois on his way to prison: With nothing to lose, the man was at his ab…
It's not poverty that drives men to violence, but the experience of losing status.
Trump has evolved from belligerence toward a more complicated mix of rivalry and cooperation. That may be what this relationship requires.
The demand comes as Senate Republican leaders wrestle with whether to include money for the controversial project in a bill that funds immigration agencies.
Creating NGOs that misuse the language of human rights is an effective strategy for advancing terrorist goals.
Photos of Obama embracing Raul Castro in Havana resurface after DOJ indictment charges the former Cuban president in the 1996 shootdown of two planes.
Bragging about my PhD to general indifference during the second-most humiliating day of my life.
DOJ demands Maine, Massachusetts, Washington and Oregon issue undercover plates to ICE, threatening legal action if states don't comply by Friday.
G.O.P. senators were exploring using their immigration bill to fence off a fund the president wants to tap to pay people who claim government mistreatment.
Parallel briefings by the two men offer a view of their contrasting styles.
A World Trade Center steel beam arrived at the Florida school where President Bush learned of the 9/11 attacks, marking the tour's seventh stop.
This is giving Angelenos a model and vocabulary for admitting what they are really thinking, that Los Angeles needs a serious change.
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.
The president said he postponed the executive order, which would give the government power to evaluate A.I. models before their release, over concerns about “aspects of it.”
Since the Dobbs decision, blaming pro-life laws for poor public health outcomes has become a virtual cottage industry for pro-abortion researchers.
The panel, whose members were selected by President Trump, has an advisory role on the design of the project but no enforcement power.
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.
Finally, opponents of such ideas have taken the threat seriously.
The machinery of government was clearly politically weaponized against my family from July 2016 to December 2025. They found nothing; we lost everything.
The majority dismissed on procedural grounds the case of Joseph Clifton Smith, whose mental faculties skirt the threshold for being spared the death penalty.
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