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A Minnesota voter outreach director's appearance on Somali TV explaining same-day voter registration sparked fierce election integrity concerns online.
Mass culture was an anomaly of corporate organization meeting the technological paradigm of spectrum scarcity.
Atlanta's homicide surge under former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms looms large as Republican nominee Rick Jackson pitches his public safety agenda.
Federal agents raided Minnesota autism service providers in St. Louis Park and Edina as Medicaid fraud investigations intensify across the state.
Bioethics is entirely subjective when it comes to coercing doctors.
The case offers a rare look at the military’s handling of mental health issues during extended deployments.
Chad Pergram recalls slipping on the U.S. Capitol steps in front of Justin Trudeau and explores the ghostly history behind his unexpected fall.
Gemma Tognini and Claire Lehmann discuss One Nation’s rise, Albanese’s leadership, government waste and the antisemitism that Bondi exposed in Australia.
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 availability of foreign low-skill labor short-circuits a natural market process.
A new ad criticizes Senator Ashley Moody, a Republican, for voting against releasing files on Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of sex crimes in Palm Beach.
Patrick Healy, an assistant managing editor at The Times, will answer your questions on Monday at 11:15 a.m. Let us know what’s on your mind in the comments.
Vance recently used his own background to draw the starkest possible contrast between el Sayed and American values.
Even if these are stressful days to be in cybersecurity, they are hopeful ones.
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.
Libertarian candidate Jeremy Todd is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District after incumbent Rep. Thomas Massie lost the GOP primary.
The son of Nicolas Sarkozy on the riots, the rise of Marine Le Pen, and why he thinks France may have to burn before it can rebuild.
It seems that the effort to find a fake Dan Sullivan with which to confuse voters was not only intentional but far-reaching.
Rachel Bovard of CPI warns Democrats could follow Jack Smith's playbook to target young Trump administration officials with costly subpoenas.
Over the past decade, former mommy blogger Rowan (née Amanda) Jetté Knox has come out as bisexual, pansexual, polyam, a ‘giant lesbo,’ a ‘non-binary queer person,’ a polyamorous ‘trans guy,’ and, as of last month, ‘two-spirited’ (and Indigenous).
Federal prosecutors said Edwin Brant Frost IV lured investors with promises of high returns, but used new money to pay earlier investors and fund personal expenses.
David Lewis’s classic study of Pacific wayfinding shows how Indigenous knowledge can be taken seriously—neither romanticised nor dismissed.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican.
The anonymous chronicler of the Islamic State’s occupation talks to Pamela Paresky about growing up under Saddam, the 1941 Farhud, and why he believes antisemitism unites every jihadist movement.
From the riots of 2005 to the scenes of urban guerrilla warfare on 17 and 18 October, violence in French cities has grown increasingly intense. And the authorities are struggling to respond.
Two Columbia undergrads wrote an op-ed condemning the illiberal rush to judgment — and were pilloried for it. I sat down with them to learn more.
Lisa Murkowski broke years of silence on X to accuse Mary Peltola's team of ballot manipulation through a decoy Dan Sullivan candidate scheme.
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…
Rep. Keith Self says he could challenge Democratic Socialists of America members' right to take the House oath of office in the new Congress.
A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of another James Fishback campaign.
The trillionaire's unprecedented political spending in the 2026 midterms could cost him in his home state of Texas if Democrats breakthrough and win in November.
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.
A federal judge gave the government until noon on Friday to share which states had received letters trying to enlist them in an effort to find evidence of voter fraud.
California's Michael Alejandro Castillo Murga became the first U.S. citizen extradited to El Salvador. He faces aggravated femicide charges in a 2019 killing.
Voters in Michigan, Arizona, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have a rare opportunity this year to give Democrats unified control of their state governments.
Two recent films offer very different portraits of Chris Hansen, the controversial journalist behind America's hit TV show ‘To Catch a Predator.’
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More than 70 percent of Big Five publishing staff are women, most of them from elite universities.
In a memo, the department told lawmakers it was redirecting up to $125 million in foreign aid, including nearly $49 million that Congress appropriated for family planning programs in low-income countries.
A ProPublica hit piece on election integrity activist Cleta Mitchell is lazy, dumb, and provably wrong, making a series of asinine claims.
Increases in energy prices as a result of the Iran war are not a justification for tighter monetary policy.
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Zelensky's term expired more than two years ago. The longer he refuses to hold an election, the more he undermines Ukraine's defense.
A nonprofit said it released the information to promote transparency about the Trump administration’s deportation campaign. Homeland security officials told workers they are reviewing the incident.
Angry about the scale of a contract signed by one of his former lawyers with the family of a wealthy pardon seeker, the president told allies he wanted some of the money to go to his future presidential library.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's office sent a voting rights citation to "Betty No Last Name," raising fraud concerns over felon restoration.
The question is who ordered the restrictions on the Starshield military application; administration harping on Starlink terms of use in Ukraine is misdirection.
Podcast host Jonathan Kay discusses the underlying societal factors that caused his country's journalists, politicians, and academics to uncritically accept false claims that the bodies of 215 Indigenous children had been found on the grounds of a…
Russia has reaffirmed its alliance with Iran and is reportedly providing intelligence to the Houthis as they attack U.S. allies in the Gulf.
Tensions have risen between the United States and Cuba as the Trump administration tries to force the island’s Communist government to make drastic changes.
The problem isn't just Trump-induced inflation. For ordinary working people, living standards have been dwindling for decades.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
U.S. crime rates plummeted in 2025.
As the Chinese Communist Party hurtles headlong into the AI dilemma, its successes and failures will leave behind some kind of rudimentary map for the rest of us.
When Trump cut a diesel deal with Putin and limited intelligenced sharing, a canny Zelensky didn't beg or cower.
It does no harm to reflect on the evils of Maoism.
The Justice Department issued subpoenas, a House oversight committee sought interviews and the state opened its own inquiry into a Democratic plan to recruit a spoiler into a Senate race.
J. Christian Adams says the SAVE database could help clean voter rolls, but California and Washington still refuse to use it for verification.
During his speech in the Greek capital, the US secretary of state dispensed with the hypocrisy that has cloaked America’s globe-spanning ambition in recent decades.
Both sides have a long tradition of promoting spoiler candidates.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The Alaska Division of Elections reported roughly 58,000 early ballots cast as Dan Sullivan faces a same-name independent challenger on the ballot.
Donald Trump rallied supporters in Texas who say rising costs haven't shaken their loyalty, warning socialism and progressive policies threaten America.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could have picked any number of messages for his first Senate campaign ad of the general election back in May. Texans care a lot about cost of living, border security, healthcare, and corruption, among other issue…
States had sued the Trump administration, arguing that a regulation would unlawfully cause very sick Americans to lose their coverage. A federal judge agreed.
A systematic polling miss could overstate Democratic support, but recent history doesn't give us any reason to assume that will be the case.