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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.
Louisiana's GOP Senate runoff tests Trump's endorsement power as Rep. Julia Letlow faces state Treasurer John Fleming for the open seat Saturday.
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Vice-president, leading a foundering peace deal to end the kind of war he's opposed in the past, is left holding the bag
The victories of Darializa Avila Chevalier and other anti-establishment candidates are changing the face of House Democrats, posing a challenge for their leader.
Bill Barr argues Todd Blanche's relationship with Trump is a strength, urging Senate Republicans to confirm him as attorney general amid GOP reservations.
The ruling reversed a decision by the state’s elections office that had found Dan J. Sullivan was ineligible to challenge Dan S. Sullivan, an incumbent senator.
Bruce Blakeman vows to stop Zohran Mamdani's agenda, saying government-run grocery stores and tax hikes would damage New York's entire economy.
Trump approval rating climbs as oil prices fall following the Iran ceasefire, with new polling showing growing voter support for the president.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
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Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii gun law 6-3 in Wolford v. Lopez as Jackson's dissent on Black Codes draws sharp criticism from gun rights groups.
Utah’s desert terrain becomes more alien the deeper you go.
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Academic leaders who want to revive flagging English departments ought to remember why we read literature at all.
The State Department said the new document “boldly honors” the president and the nation’s founding. The rendering differed from previous images of the passport in several ways.
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Since April 8, Iran’s bayonets have encountered only mush. As the axiom dictates, we can expect that the Islamic Republic will keep pushing.
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.
We're closing in on July Fourth and the nation's 250th birthday, and right on time, the all-knowing digital algorithm deposited a memory from 2015 on my screen: That year, burning the Confederate flag on Independence Day was in vogue, sparked by t…
The Court’s decision gives the EPA unchallenged primacy over the state trial bar in deciding what should go on pesticide labels.
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Despite attacks from some conservatives, a heavily pro-Israel crowd still has warm words for Vance, with many saying they could pick him as the party’s nominee.
The tech scion David Ellison is close to completing a merger that would put the legacy broadcaster and the 24-hour cable news network under the same roof.
Both parties are awaiting a decision on the validity of ballot proposals to redraw Colorado’s maps ahead of 2028. Democrats say each day without a ruling puts the proposals at risk.
Border czar Tom Homan defended President Donald Trump's immigration agenda, recalling extremely graphic scenes from his career during an address in the nation's capital Friday.
Saturday’s election will be the latest test of President Trump’s influence in G.O.P. contests.
Trump ignored Clausewitz, and disaster ensued.
Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., clashes with reporter over whether socialist candidates winning New York primaries could threaten Hakeem Jeffries' speakership bid.
The ‘paradox' of being both a brash upstart among nations and the oldest continuous democracy.
The administration has provided little evidence to back up some of his assertions about the Lincoln Memorial pool. Experts say other factors could have caused the major problems that have plagued it.
A model estimates $525 billion in losses for U.S. states over the next decade if South Korea's trade commission adopts controversial regulations.
Pelosi and Omar dodged questions on socialist candidates' primary wins in New York backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, while Rep. Johnson welcomed them.
John Quincy Adams' 1821 Fourth of July address has had a long legacy. It has become a touchstone in debates about foreign policy to this
Critical theory did not merely politicise scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce.
Rep. Ro Khanna says he won't be intimidated by Elon Musk's threat to sue him over claims that USAID cuts possibly led to millions of children's deaths.
The continent with the lowest number of hot days leads the world in heat mortality. Europe’s self-inflicted aversion to air conditioning betrays a deeper hostility to energy and to progress itself.
That which we call Turkey . . .
Susan Del Percio: New York City's mayor endorsed three insurgent congressional candidates. Democrats might pay the price in November.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Nearly 250 years on, Laclos’s novel of seduction and treachery continues to scandalise.
Air Force veteran and 9/11 advocate Don Arias slams Democratic nominees with alleged ties to radical Islamic terrorism winning primary elections.
Officials in Ghent, Belgium, discouraged residents from using air-conditioning and instead suggested planting trees to cool their homes.
The experience of the Trump trade policy confirms that the optimal rate for levies on imports is greater than zero.
The 6-3 decision clears the way for the Trump administration to resume allowing federal agents at the border to turn back asylum seekers before they enter.
Mia Hughes and Stella O’Malley of the ‘Beyond Gender’ podcast interview Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the progressive ideological manias spawned during the Justin Trudeau years.
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…
Keir Starmer is just the latest victim of a political reality created by Brexit—one that has, counterintuitively, turned Britain into a European country.
‘If the aim expressed by [Darializa Avila] Chevalier to end Western civilization were to be fulfilled, the United States would no longer exist.’
The self-styled steward of order is its busiest source of disorder.
A new book from two Washington reporters reveals what took place inside the White House after President Donald Trump’s return to power.
The two-term Democratic governor of deep-red Kentucky, in demand as a surrogate in key 2026 races, talks horses, faith and family politics as he considers a run for the White House.
Melat Kiros enjoys the endorsement of both the Denver-area DSA and the national DSA.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls Trump a "man-child" throwing a "tantrum" over his refusal to sign the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.
I don’t know if we’ll be getting a second season of Spider-Noir, but I’m grateful for the existence of this one.
Nixon’s offenses were not a deep-state invention. But in the age of Donald Trump, and in a fractured media environment, voters have become more inured to political scandal.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Arab Gulf leaders to reassure them that U.S. isn’t cutting them out of negotiations with Tehran.
Bulky “nanobubbler” machines were carted off ahead of a promotional event for President Trump’s Ultimate Fighting Championship birthday party.
Humans have not merely been shaped by evolution—we have shaped it too, through the environments we chose to inhabit and the lives we chose to lead.
President Trump unveils the new U.S. passport design featuring his image and the Declaration of Independence as part of the America250 celebration.
Last year, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission overruled its enforcement attorneys and killed a separate inquiry into whether the Trump-tied company was illegally serving U.S. customers.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged that the agreement marked only “the beginning of the beginning” of negotiations between Israel and Lebanon.
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Trump warned an audience of religious conservatives that communism is spreading in the U.S., a new theme for his midterm campaign.
The former transportation secretary recounted being kept away from his 4-year-old twins overnight after an anonymous report accused him of posing a threat to them. The police said the report was false.
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 doubletalk coming from many congressional Democrats in response to President Trump's peace initiative with Iran has been a political wonder to behold.
These are not the thoughts of someone who would like America to thrive for another 250 years.
China’s ghost cities are like a mocking glimpse of the Chinese century we were told to expect, and for which we are still waiting.
Just 10 years ago, almost 60 percent of Americans said they had a lot of confidence in higher education. By last year, that number had fallen to 42 percent.
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