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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…
Many leads turn out to be innocuous or accidental, lacking evidence of malicious intent.
Despite a small setback in an Arizona House primary this week, 2026 is still very much the year of the DSA in Democratic politics.
As New York’s assisted-suicide law goes into effect, four communities of Catholic religious sisters fight back.
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.
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A three-judge panel ruled Tennessee's redrawn congressional map can stand for the Aug. 6 primary, rejecting claims it targeted Black voters in Memphis.
A bipartisan bill championed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham has become mired in a dispute over expanding President Trump’s tariff power.
Three military officials and a Pentagon spokesman gave conflicting explanations for why the number of Americans killed in the Iran war had changed.
Abdul El-Sayed accused Trump of inciting terrorism over the Whitmer kidnapping plot, raising questions as his Michigan Senate primary heats up.
Benjamin Netanyahu will meet President Trump and attend Lindsey Graham's memorial service in Washington as U.S.-Israel operations against Iran continue.
1 in 3 U.S. adults believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, including nearly half of Democrats polled. Will the Democratic Party listen?
LLMs are incredibly useful, even astonishing. But they aren’t “thinking” about anything.
The state, along with several others still being chosen, appears set to play an important role in determining the party’s next presidential nominee.
Hasan Piker and CodePink's Medea Benjamin rally behind BreakThrough News after congressional subpoenas target groups tied to communist tech tycoon.
The humanoid revolution is coming-and the Chinese firm Unitree is leading the charge.
Some schools are moving toward a hybrid model.
Supporters of bombing swear they don’t want ground troops but that they are committed to the end of the regime. One may have to give way to the other.
The norms governing scholarship now often serve to protect a rigid orthodoxy on certain politically charged issues—with ideological tests substituted for proper academic standards.
Activist Rachel Moiselle on why a country with 3,000 Jews obsesses over Israel, how antizionism became a faith, and the cost of speaking out.
The last thing the world needs is to depend on views approved by the bioethics establishment.
The making and unmaking of American dominance.
Trump's Iran campaign now focuses on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, but no clear conditions exist for ending strikes as nuclear talks stall.
President grows skeptical of diplomacy and is in ‘revenge mode' against Tehran, according to senior administration official
Rand Paul reveals documents showing CBP intercepted undeclared biological materials tied to a U.S.-China coronavirus research network as early as 2018.
The votes marked the first test of Republican support for the conflict since President Donald Trump resumed military strikes against Tehran this month.
This weekend's convention is a surprisingly low-key end to a truly wild ride.
At an annual meeting of judges and lawyers, the liberal justice defended her conservative colleagues from criticism that they have rubber-stamped President Trump’s agenda.
U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, a Democrat from Minnesota, has thrown her support behind Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The previous supreme leader, who was killed early in the war, had renounced nuclear weapons. U.S. spy agencies believe his son is more interested in building a bomb.
Usha Vance shared the first family photo with all four children, including newborn Alec Neel Vance, joking about the challenge of a decent shot.
A collapsed ceasefire has pushed America and Iran back towards full-scale war over the Strait of Hormuz. Now Trump must decide whether to finish the job or give Tehran one more chance.
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Rep. Andy Biggs, who voted to overturn the 2020 election results, won the GOP nomination for governor. Among Democrats, a left-wing challenger failed to unseat Rep. Greg Stanton.
A distinguished historian of the Holocaust views Israel through the wrong prism.
Chesterton wrote a novel over 100 years ago that helps place the significance of Rubio’s most recent speech on the century’s left-wing terrorism problem.
There’s a difference between ordinary influence peddling and the first family’s outright self-enrichment.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Following on false claims that 215 child corpses were discovered in western Canada, a First Nations chief claims that Indigenous people can communicate with departed spirits.
One might conclude that student learning has become an afterthought.
Sen. Eric Schmitt obtained a Biden White House memo revealing plans to expand TPS to over 3.1 million noncitizens in the administration's final days.
The House Democratic campaign arm has stepped up its interventions in high-profile contested primaries. But this week, it suffered its third primary defeat in two months.
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By dismissing the importance of biological sex, Robin Dembroff earned predictable acclaim from fellow scholars. But as a work of philosophy, ‘Real Men on Top’ is unconvincing and deeply flawed.
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.
Top officials overseeing state elections and law enforcement are stepping up plans to prepare for what they worry could be interference in the midterms.
President Trump has insisted the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran would be a relatively short “excursion,” although it has now lasted nearly five months, with no end in sight.
El-Sayed says he's for self-determination for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis. But for most Israelis, that means a Jewish state.
Sen. John Thune prioritizes a continuing resolution over the SAVE Act, sparking GOP tensions as Sen. John Kennedy warns against negotiating with Democrats.
A Pentagon official argues that "people can no longer take the United States for granted."
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, shot entirely on IMAX cameras, is the newest chapter in an old story: technological innovation creating new forms of art.
Bernie’s blindness has a long history.
This investigation isn’t over just because Sherrill wants her preferred answer to be taken as the end of the story.
Karoline Leavitt says President Trump's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner speech will be "unifying yet vicious" and "entertaining."
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There is probably a camera on a pole at the entrance to your neighborhood. You've probably stopped noticing it. It is small, solar-powered, unremarkable, and it photographs every car that passes: yours, your neighbor's, your teenager's. And it rea…
A USA Today column on the WNBA’s Caitlin Clark — who for no earthly reason is hated by sportswriters — is stridently deranged.
Companies in Africa and India will make generic versions of the pill that could cost as little as $5 per person per year. But access to the drug and other new products in much of Latin America remains uncertain.
The president initially backed a little-known congressman. Then he talked to Gov. Henry McMaster and Ms. Graham herself.
How Australia's war on tobacco backfired.
‘She didn’t lay down any crazy vitriol.’
Steve Scalise compares Olive Garden's photo ID requirement for its unlimited pasta pass to the lack of a federal voter ID law in U.S. elections.
Zayd Ayers Dohrn, son of prominent members of the Weather Underground, is not a chip off the old block.
The Grift Industrial Complex targeted Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey—and got buried.
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…
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Cyclospora is at least the fourth major media effort this year to make Americans believe that Robert F. Kennedy has destroyed their public health infrastructure. Total deaths: zero.
Matthew Taylor, a conceptual artist and political strategist, made influential ads and documentaries produced by Steve Bannon. Now he’s assisting the White House.
During my time chairing the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, I sometimes felt like the agent of a state-funded extortion ring.