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Paul Pelosi did not appear in court Friday, and his attorney entered a not guilty plea on his behalf in a Napa County hit-and-run case stemming from a July 3 crash.
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…
It is not a good sign that the yields on 30-year treasuries continue to rise.
When Jewish students at an Arlington, Virginia, high school were mocked, threatened, and chased, their desperate requests for help were met with indifference by school officials, writes Rupa Subramanya.
Jellie Whitehurst in Pensacola, Fla., was surprised to learn that after decades, the Navy had awarded a $1.7 million contract to a company in Virginia to supply the gear.
Chuck DeVore told Fox News Digital that liberal states treat elections as census exercises, supercharging weaknesses in noncitizen voting safeguards.
The New York congresswoman freezes her eggs, and Republicans show their true feelings
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Two felony charges have been filed against a Kentucky woman after spray paint was seen on the memorial in the capital.
The planned adornments, which were included in renderings submitted to the Supreme Court, break with tradition and the original vision for the White House grounds.
The congressman is running for a third term under a cloud of controversy.
Violent crime rates, including murder, have dropped precipitously. The trend began before the president’s current term.
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While the issues of medicalizing kids ("transing the kids") or biological men playing in women's sports have taken a backseat to "affordability," the economy, and the war in Iran, they are still major issues that will keep people like me voting Re…
The only acceptable number is 2 percent or less, as Kevin Warsh has promised.
‘Americans aren’t unhappy with Amazon. Amazon is extremely popular.’
Amid a regional scramble to shape the “day after,” Jordan appears to be the only country without a plan of its own.
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 Justice Department says it disagrees with the ruling dismissing its Title VI antisemitism case against Harvard University and is assessing next steps.
Sometimes what resonates isn't what politicians say, but the accompanying emotion. Ronald Reagan's put-down of Walter Mondale's "youth and inexperience" in 1984 worked only because it came with a suppressed grin. Sen. Edmund Muskie's New Hampshire…
Asked whether the deployment of the Abraham Lincoln had gone on too long, the president said its deployment had lasted “not nearly long enough.”
The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America is nothing new says historian Michael Barone.
The Trump administration remains the undisputed world champion of picking stupid fights with little or no political upside.
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…
If we want to avoid a rerun of the early 2020s, then-to paraphrase Seuss-we will have to get rid of Woke 1 and Woke 2.
The president is actively fighting for his endorsed candidate in the South Carolina Senate runoff, Sen. Darline Graham, the sister of the late Lindsey Graham.
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
President Donald Trump left the stage mid-speech at the Nassau County Police Academy to embrace the parents of Jacob Freytes, a 12-year-old killed by a stray bullet.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The Cofnas and Arday controversies show that on matters of race, administrators at Cambridge have failed to conduct deliberate checks, failed in probity, and failed in their tolerance for unsettled science.
He’s right to say that criticizing young people for being lazy won’t win them over. But the results of Trumponomics so far hold a warning for Republicans.
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President Donald Trump dismissed the concerns of military families about worsening conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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The campaign of Mary Peltola said it was focused on issues important to Alaska and did not approve a message of support from Ms. Harris.
Representative Rashida Tlaib was supposed to headline an event called “Chomp the Oligarchy” for three candidates for Congress who face Jewish Democrats in Tuesday’s primary.
Nikola Tesla invented the twentieth century. Edison got the credit. This is not a footnote. It is the whole argument.1. The alternating current system that powers the entire electrical grid of the modern world - every light, every motor, every fac…
Decades before his rise to the New York State appellate court, he was a probation officer who tried to help Mr. Oswald, then a teenager living in the Bronx.
A new White House report says that China sends billions of dollars worth of goods to the U.S. via third countries in order to skirt Trump's high tariffs.
The 5th Circuit dismissed a challenge to Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act against alleged Tren de Aragua members after all plaintiffs were deported.
No one ever told me not to talk about the company, which didn't mean that there wasn't an unspoken rule against it. I was a voracious consumer of any and all things business of media, and it wasn't...
The 2026 midterm cycle is projected to be the most expensive election cycle in US history, with candidates across the board raising money at a record pace. And voters are taking notice: Big-donor groups tied to issues like Israel policy, AI, and c…
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The intended parents had asked to end the pregnancy at 20 weeks when the fetus was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, setting off a painful legal battle.
The request escalates the legal fight over the controversial project to the nation’s highest court.
Ed Markey is hoping that his progressive politics will save him in Massachusetts.
How AI prose exploits the charity that makes reading possible.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed a review of state grants to DFW Airport and George Bush Intercontinental over planned Islamic wudu ablution stations.
Some lawmakers and their families have traded millions of dollars worth of stocks since the start of this term.
Hong's narrow defeat in Wisconsin revealed how many Democrats worry that they'll lose if they talk like aliens.
The LibDems were first out of the blocks this morning demanding that the Commons investigation into Farage's finances continue.
Higher premiums and rising medical bills have intensified Americans’ dissatisfaction with their medical coverage.
Eman Abdelhadi delivered an "October 7th blessing" without mentioning those killed by Hamas as her brother, Abdul El-Sayed, campaigns in Michigan.
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz appears to have declined substantially as compared to conditions before the war with Iran started earlier this year.
A lawsuit filed this week alleges that the product is unconstitutional, and other experts warn it could violate securities laws.
A backlash might start with a ban on public pot-smoking.
The president can help rally his core supporters but remains deeply unpopular in many swing areas.
GSA alleges AbilityOne listed China-made technology products as American-made, demanding a sweeping audit of 18,000 items on the federal procurement list.
Both major-party candidates are unpopular in a race viewed as critical for Senate control.
Nathan Cofnas joins a historical line of academics demonised for delivering unwelcome or upsetting news about group differences.
It was the Democratic Party's "Summer of Socialism," as an email from the Republican National Committee cheerfully called it that morning, and Ashik Siddique, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, was standing on a chair outside a ba…
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport received new surface movement radar to help controllers track aircraft on runways in low visibility.
President Donald Trump said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and progressive Democrats are all trying to disavow their defund police and sanctuary cities stances.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will probably never have a better opportunity to be elected president than 2028.
We can’t let activists’ non-threatening demeanors seduce us into complacency.
Is this the reckoning that human-rights NGOs have long avoided?
Republican and Democratic challengers are both using the issue to attack members of Congress as unethical, seizing on a common practice that enrages voters.
Why a Victorian obscenity trial tanked the birth rate, what the wellness industry gets wrong, and the case for choosing your baby's genes — with the internet's most data-obsessed anon.
One reason Ukraine has proved so successful this year in slowing Russia’s advance in the east of the country has been the creation of a ‘kill zone.’
McKinsey's Chris Bradley on why Australia stopped investing—and why he believes the poorest country in the world could live as well as Switzerland does today by 2100.
A federal guilty plea would probably doom Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s separate state murder prosecution.
A look back at the 20th century’s most entertaining literary spat—one of the few such encounters that Orwell emphatically lost.
Mangione’s lawyers contend that his federal guilty plea to a stalking charge bars Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg from pursuing a state murder charge.
Her defeat in the state's gubernatorial primary shows why the left needs happy warriors like AOC and Mamdani
The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees voted to name the institution's grounds "President Donald J. Trump Plaza" as a sweeping renovation begins.
In a new book, Robert O’Connell situates the battlefield tactics of ancient Greek hoplites within the grand sweep of bronze-age military history.
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
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.
Can anyone win by distancing themselves from President Donald Trump?
Alex Vindman thinks he can do what no Democrat has been able to do over the past decade: break through Republicans’ hold on Florida.