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It means nothing, of course — the quintessentially useless Trump ‘vanity gesture.’
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has stepped back from Texas’s high-profile Senate race since losing the Democratic primary in March.
Christian Ehrhardt, who negotiated the administration’s controversial “third country” agreements, is the White House pick for ambassador to Cameroon.
The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.
These races could be competitive in a wave election.
A group supporting Dan Osborn, the independent Senate candidate in Nebraska, is airing an ad attacking Senator Pete Ricketts, a Republican, for pardoning a man convicted of sexual assault.
Many things are going poorly, despite the headline figures.
U2 reconsidered at fifty.
Verbal guidance telling some ICE offices to stop arresting illegal immigrants without criminal histories was rescinded within hours amid fierce backlash.
The MLB commissioner hates baseball; this is well-known.
No one would claim that the Iran War has been a political godsend for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. But some Israel-First conservatives are willing to say-and lately have been incessantly saying-that the Iran War hasn't been a p…
We need to beef up our military and be more cautious about where we employ it.
Politics of the Day
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…
The Texas senator was the driving force behind a bill to overhaul regulation of college athletics that passed the chamber Monday night.
Trump's tariffs and his war against Iran caused prices to rise, but the US president continues to claim it's ‘the greatest economy in history'
A new exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg peddles PLO myths about Israel’s war for independence in 1948.
Vicente Gonzalez releases a new ad connecting high beef costs to the loss of an important South Texas tradition.
Gen Z calls it Chinamaxxing. But the West's new infatuation with China is less a triumph of Communist Party soft power than a symptom of our own decline.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Passages sponsors trips to Israel so young people can experience the country for themselves rather than judging it from afar.
The Church of England and the failures of interfaith politics.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused himself from Suncor v. Boulder without explanation, while Elena Kagan faces separate recusal calls.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith obtained communications from The Federalist, along with more than a dozen other media outlets.
Jeffrey Soros revealed his role in launching Abdul El-Sayed's career at a secretive Hollywood fundraiser where attendees were asked not to record.
Abdul El-Sayed unveils a health-focused agenda to persuade Michigan supporters of the Make America Healthy Again movement to back his campaign.
The tragicomic obsession with disability and disease on display at the Last Ditch bar isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s been part of militant lesbian culture since the Cold War.
The Sinaloa cartel's Los Mayos faction faces sweeping Treasury sanctions targeting Mayito Flaco, a fugitive born in Anaheim accused of ordering hits.
The main super PAC for Senate Democrats will begin to run digital ads in the state’s Senate race, in a sign of the party’s growing confidence.
Senate Republicans spent weeks passing the Protect College Sports Act while Sen. Josh Hawley and others warn affordability concerns are being ignored.
President Trump used JMSN’s song in a recent self-promotional video that was paid for with public money.
FBI Director Kash Patel says Operation Blackout has seized roughly $17 billion tied to scam compounds targeting senior citizens across the globe.
Judge Melissa R. DuBose said the department had placed arbitrary conditions on grants created by the Violence Against Women Act.
The Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management uncovered $510 million in fraud and waste across federal employee health benefits programs.
Jack Smith returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to defend his derailed efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump, telling lawmakers he would not “be silenced by continued threats of prosecution” from the president.
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…
The defense secretary is expected to announce that the number of top officers will be reduced by as much as 20 percent, officials said.
Whether this is the best of economies, the worst of economies, or something in between, you can bet that for the next month-plus we'll be told it's the worst.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The US president has denied Tehran the opportunity to use the US midterm elections as a pressure point.
Their message accuses Republicans of flagrant corruption, tying the attack to the billions President Donald Trump has made during his second term.
In 1967, left-wing intellectuals accused America of genocide in Vietnam—they were wrong then, and they’re wrong again now.
Financial technology is accelerating global integration, while geopolitical tensions are driving fragmentation. How will these opposing forces reshape finance over the next five years?
A tiny community in Edgewood, Pennsylvania, has been shocked by a horrific home invasion and murder.
‘Everything that we use for our metaphorical miracles — MRI machines, surgery, medications — requires the labor of someone else.’
Three campaigns left their positions unclear, and two said they would not join the president on the trail.
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The high court will later hear arguments and make a final ruling on the Trump administration’s controversial policy of sending migrants to countries where they are not citizens.
Pascal Bruckner’s book about victimhood culture invites us to choose liberation, and to move from resentment to a secular kind of grace.
“We know how to find you,” Brett Leatherman, a senior cyber official at the F.B.I., said in a video statement released Tuesday.
If you’re not already familiar with the casus belli that ignited the Gaza war, watching the fifth season of ‘Fauda’ will be good for you, but it will also be bad for you.
Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s extraordinary testimony about the Hiroshima attack and its aftermath has been published by his daughter some forty years after his death.
TalkTV anchor Julia Hartley-Brewer addresses UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting about the five men arrested in a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire this weekend -- a base shared with the U.S. Air Force:
At yesterday’s White House event announcing a new steel plant in Iowa, Trump said, ‘We have the best economy we’ve ever had.’
The bureau was the latest target of the notorious gang of cybercriminals that steals sensitive personal data and sells it online.
Mary Peltola hopes to unseat Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in a race all about prices, federal aid and Donald Trump.
Movers never seem to have working clocks.
Camryn Manheim told the Human Rights Campaign dinner she "always wanted a gay son," but her boy turned out straight despite her very best efforts.
Eliminating the Regents requirement for graduation will harm students and weaken accountability for schools.
Video captures food truck workers scrambling as ICE federal agents arrive at a Tallahassee Florida, taqueria, with one woman seen being apprehended.
The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.
The U.S. secretary of state, Marco Rubio, told Fox News that what happened at a base used by U.S. bombers flying to Iran was “very serious,” without providing details.
‘Harm reduction’ programs often cause terrible harm. But sometimes they also are beyond absurd.
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.
Investor Misha Saul joins Claire Lehmann to discuss Australia’s declining productivity, immigration policy, and the political choices shaping the country’s future.
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
President Donald Trump launched America.gov, an AI-powered site that consolidates federal services from passport applications to Medicare enrollment in one place.
The bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials was thwarted in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
An OpenAI agent’s breach of a Medicare portal shows that the real danger from AI is a mundane one—and the labs’ fixation on a coming machine god is making it worse.
Cambridge has chosen a cover-up, most likely to save half the Education Department from public disgrace.
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.
The National Guard presence has dipped from a summertime high of more than 5,100 brought to the capital for July 4 celebrations.
House GOP lawmakers unveil 14 bills targeting Medicaid fraud after a report warns billions in taxpayer dollars are lost annually.
The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive.
There is little reason to expect that China will be in a rush to supply the U.S. with its needs in this area.
In France, where for a long time there was nothing but foreboding, something is suddenly alive.
The films will be released this November and December, exact dates still pending.
Between a budget crisis and a cost-of-living squeeze, Macron is leaving a country feeling more insecure than ever-and ready to take to the streets.
There's a reason Republicans aren't panicked about the polls showing the Kansas Senate race is effectively tied. It's also why even Donald Trump-bashing television networks are scarcely focusing on upstart Democrat Adam Hamilton's bid to unseat in…
Pete Hegseth's State of the Force address doubles last year's cuts, targeting a 20% reduction in general and flag officer billets across all services.