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With Karoline Leavitt departing as press secretary, the White House loses one of its most conspicuous women.
The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison.
Icelandic voters reportedly narrowly rejected a proposal to restart negotiations to join the European Union, as voters sided with independence versus the capital city's general desire to restart talks that were suspended more than a decade ago.
Silicon Valley exec Ankit Gupta’s X post describing JD Vance’s push to hire and train Americans as a return of 'DEI' drew sharp rebukes from Trump officials and conservative voices.
This was an entirely fake controversy, and Burnham’s reputation has been unjustly tarred.
In his Jackson Hole speech, the Fed chair did everything but say it out loud.
Leftists will never experience a grand revelation for the horrors they've inflicted on the American people and offer atonement.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey's seven-point plan would dedicate 50% of hyperscale data center revenue to reducing and eliminating West Virginia's income tax.
After casting his vote in South Carolina, a man who introduced himself as Chestnut was unwilling to give his full name. "You don't have a need to know," the air force veteran declared. He was, however, happy to share his views.
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.
Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has emerged as a vocal defender of transgender rights as he tries to fend off a primary challenge from Representative Seth Moulton.
The Supreme Court's decision to stay the injunction blocking President Trump's March executive order on mail-in ballots gives voters something they are clamoring for: greater confidence in election integrity. A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds t…
The president’s latest in a string of threats against broadcasters followed a comment by Kristen Welker about “some mixed results” from his midterm endorsements.
A new exhibition curated by Lars von Trier provides a fascinating look at who and what has influenced one of the world’s most prodigiously gifted and provocative filmmakers.
The courts are not going to save us. We’ll have to do this work politically.
After Warner Bros. dropped an anvil on Coyote vs. Acme, Ketchup Entertainment saved it from oblivion — and we are richer for it.
A special grand jury is probing D.C. public schools over truancy, graduation rates and how attendance records are documented across campuses.
Minnesota wants Texas to turn over an officer charged with shooting an immigrant. Such extraditions are usually routine, but in this case politics loom large.
Corning is partnering with NVIDIA to build three optical-manufacturing facilities as AI data centers drive unprecedented demand for glass fiber.
Roy Cooper celebrated data center growth as North Carolina governor, but his Senate campaign now targets their energy use as a rate hike driver.
A scandalously anti-science editorial from the world’s leading science journal.
Next month it will be 25 years since 9/11. But for journalists at CBC, the taxpayer-funded Canadian TV network, reporting on the anniversary could prove tricky.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, faced criticism from Jewish Democrats after remarking, “hurt people hurt people.”
In races across the country, former GOP politicians are leaning into their pasts.
Trump amplified a plan for expedited legal pathways for Jewish Canadians fleeing antisemitic persecution as Christian lawmakers press his administration.
The exchange on Sunday was the first known military action between the two nations in a month, raising the risk of a renewed round of fighting.
Increasingly, sociologists are expected to avoid research questions and theories that involve the role of culture in shaping societal inequalities.
Mr. Yiannopoulos, an early supporter of President Trump and vocal supporter of mass deportations, was himself sent back to his home country, part of a long fall from right-wing grace.
Beth Macy is challenging Rep. Ben Cline in a bright-red Virginia district, hoping her own story and the stories she told about the region will win back rural and working-class White voters.
The administration will work with a private Venezuelan oil company that has close ties to the country’s government.
The defense secretary's tough-guy persona may be exactly what wins over white evangelical voters
They don’t make a dime, wreck their car, and end up in jail.
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…
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Gavin Newsom could soon decide whether California public schools and state workers get formal recognition of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha holidays.
The Democrat wants to counter his younger challenger’s calls for a “new generation of leadership” by focusing Tuesday’s primary on ideology, not age.
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…
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.
South Carolina's mail-in ballot age exemption for voters over 65 was struck down as a 26th Amendment violation, but the state plans to appeal further.
I believe this radical thought that stems from the Constitution, the Declaration, that America exists to secure the blessings of liberty for Americans, which is to say America exists for Americans.
The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Our reporter reflects on her months at the memorial, as it turned blue, then green, then peeling, amid the dead ducks and gawkers and National Guard.
The Democratic Senate candidate said he regretted comments in which he linked the synagogue attack to a broader cycle of violence. "You don’t ever want to trample somebody’s pain," he said.
With one swift act, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement makes the country a better place.
We should worry about the perverse incentives created by elevating a self-killer and punishing his enemies.
Ateacher of English told me in his class more than sixty years ago that his job was to teach discrimination: between the meritorious and the meretricious, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. If the result of his teaching was that we …
What rules should govern our online digital lives? What rights do we have as digital citizens? The Meta settlement raises more questions than it answers.
The U.S. struck Iranian launchers on an island in the Strait of Hormuz, the first publicly acknowledged attack on Tehran’s forces in weeks.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
President Donald Trump's Venezuela oil deal targets 65 billion barrels across 17 fields, but major infrastructure hurdles stand before pump relief.
Trump recycled a ranking reflecting midcentury liberal preferences just so he could call himself the ‘greatest.’
For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department.
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.
Assemblyman Carl DeMaio says he plans to file a lawsuit against Gavin Newsom's new California law that he claims criminalizes citizen journalism.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill's reply to a voter-roll inquiry drew fire from Jeff Van Drew, who calls it "snarky" and signals possible subpoenas.
Given the economic pressures on the regime, something has to give.
The Canadian PM is one of the few world leaders to stand up to the US president. Former colleagues say they are not surprised
The knowledge and infrastructure needed to engineer a pandemic pathogen, once confined to a handful of elite military and civilian research institutions, are quietly becoming more accessible.
Voters are clear in their demand for greater affordability, with college costs near the top of their list. Here's how to deliver it.
Class clowns have been turned into class frowns.
New projects can take years to produce meaningful amounts of oil, and that’s especially true in Venezuela, where infrastructure is in disrepair.
Candidates’ attacks are focused on illegal immigration, faith and stock trading.
In today’s Martin Center article, Christopher Schilling explains that, though North Carolina “requires Holocaust education for public school students,” there is no such requirement for…
A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.
Republicans need to give their voters a rationale for voting the straight ticket.
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A judge temporarily blocked the agency from implementing a strict new rule governing mail voting. The policy could disproportionately affect Democrats and many battleground elections.
The U.S.-Canada trade war has galvanized Canadians behind their prime minister’s decision to walk away from negotiations. What happens when the time comes for talks to restart?
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.
The country’s longest war came to an end exactly five years ago. Today it offers lessons for policymakers seeking to avoid an endless war in Iran.
A thrash-metal classic turns forty.
The automated license plate readers aren’t popular with the public. Politicians are catching on.
Treat a warming planet as an engineering problem rather than a moral failing, and it starts to look solvable.
Gabriel Perez had access to the president’s speeches before they were delivered and was accused of placing unlawful wagers on words that would be spoken.
Some constitutional victories arrive with trumpets. Others arrive quietly in a case the press has decided not to love, for a journalist many would rather not defend. Democracy Partners v. O'Keefe is one of the latter.James O'Keefe is controversial…