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House Democrats join GOP Rep. Thomas Massie to force a vote on a war powers resolution aimed at curbing President Trump's military authority regarding Iran.
Congressional Republicans are trying to pass a strict “election integrity” law that seems almost custom-designed to disenfranchise their own supporters.
Oregon Democrats unanimously rejected a proposal requiring ICE notification when illegal immigrants convicted of violent felonies are released from prison.
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…
First lady Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in what the United Nations on Thursday said would be a first.When the wife of President Donald Trump takes her seat in the president's chair on Monday afternoon, it "will b…
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon credited Portland Frog Brigade protesters with defeating Trump's National Guard deployment to Oregon Tuesday.
Kansas invalidated driver's licenses and birth certificates for transgender residents under a new law. About 1,700 people must get new IDs at $26 each.
The former secretary of state appeared for hours behind closed doors in New York before members of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee.
Vice President JD Vance slams the behavior of Democrats at the State of the Union speech and warns against giving them power in November's midterm elections.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has announced that a long-awaited international bridge between the United States and Canada will move forward, despite past opposition from President Donald Trump.
President Trump's State of the Union address was completely in character. Like the river Meander, it took a circuitous path
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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 president is visiting Congress in a dramatically different place from where he was a year ago.
By the time the men's Olympic hockey team showed up, which honestly wasn't all that far into things, it had already become clear what kind of State of the Union this was and what kind it was not.
The president has sought to end the program, known as Temporary Protected Status, for various migrants as part of his mass deportation efforts.
The sad and curious case of the chronic fatigue syndrome.
President Donald Trump must choose between a military strike on Iran, whose consequences no one can predict, and a deal that would leave the Islamic Republic still able to attack its own citizens, menace Israel, and export terrorism worldwide.
A number of prominent figures have stepped down or are facing investigations after their communications with Jeffrey Epstein and his former longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, were released last month.
Jonathan Kay speaks with journalist Adam Zivo about the 10 February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia—a mass murder perpetrated by a trans-identified male gunman who was initially identified by police and journalists as a woman.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Federal judge defies Supreme Court again, declaring Trump's third-country deportation policy unlawful despite previous high court rebuke and warning.
After resisting testifying for months, the former secretary of state entered the session defiant, and grew irate after a Republican leaked a photo from inside the room.
If you want your populism to be effective.
The family of U.N. investigator Francesca Albanese has sued the Trump administration over U.S. sanctions imposed on her last year for her criticism of Israel's policies during its war against Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists.
Representatives of the countries were in Geneva this week to discuss the fate of Iran’s nuclear program.
The aggressively rumpled former senator from Ohio is back. Will working-class voters follow?
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A federal judge ruled that a lawsuit challenging the project needed to be revised before he could consider the larger questions it presented.
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Leftists and progressives gather online every few months to insist on a bizarre thesis: That wanting to keep public transportation systems free from open drug use, indecent exposure or violent threats is a sign that you are, at best, a pathetic wi…
For some, this sitcom's jabbing satire is easier to swallow than the cutting realism of
Representative Dan Crenshaw, who has at times clashed with President Trump and his allies, is facing a conservative challenger in Tuesday’s primary.
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A Virginia man charged with threatening Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell and others pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court.
Vice President Kamala Harris, a former US senator from California who previously served as the state's attorney general, could be the first Black woman and Asian American to lead a major party ticket after receiving President Joe Biden's support t…
They will let Trump be Trump, but everyone else needs to stay focused on the economy.
Judge Zahid N. Quraishi said federal prosecutors in New Jersey had lost credibility on immigration issues. He’s the latest federal judge to show impatience with the Trump administration.
Three summaries of interviews the FBI conducted in 2019 with a woman who had accused Trump of sexual assault are missing from the files, it has been reported.
The DHS secretary is suddenly talking about more than just mass deportations.
The Democrats showed their true colors at Tuesday evening's State of the Union when they failed the president's test of allegiance to this country.
Prosecutors are scrambling to shore up the case from adverse judicial rulings. Defense lawyers say they are not ready for trial.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced an executive order directing city authorities to detain ICE agents using excessive force during immigration operations.
Liberals must act aggressively to uphold the values of free society.
Iranian protests and military setbacks create historic opportunity for Middle East peace. Could this be a
A new Kansas law that went into effect Thursday invalidates driver's licenses and birth certificates of transgender individuals, reports the Kansas City Star.
As President Trump contemplates military action in Iran, the vice president told The Post he still sees himself as a “skeptic” of overseas military intervention.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have survived decades of scrutiny and conspiracy theories. Often, their adversaries come out on the losing end.
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Follow President Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
An estimated 32.6 million people watched President Donald Trump's State of the Union address this week, down four million from his speech to Congress last year and the smallest audience he's ever gotten for the annual message.The Nielsen company s…
Anthropic said it was standing firm on not having its A.I. used in certain scenarios by the Pentagon, which has imposed a Friday deadline on the company to give unfettered access to its technology.
An Israeli former National Security Council official examines Australia’s anti-Israel protests, the rise of antizionism in Western academia, and the growing crisis of democratic confidence across the West.
How religious conservatives cancelled philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1940, sparking academic freedom debates that echo today.
Election-year legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements on voting appears stalled in the Senate for now, despite President Donald Trump's call in his State of the Union speech for Republicans in Congress to pass the bill "…
Columbia student detained by ICE will be released after NYC Mayor Mamdani spoke with Trump following their White House meeting on immigration issues.
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CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said Thursday that voters still trust President Donald Trump and the Republican Party more than Democrats on immigration and border security.
A Travis County district attorney is facing new scrutiny for allegedly freeing a career criminal charged with murdering a father of five.
Fareed explains why AI's massive energy demands are straining the power grid, but also why AI could enable big breakthroughs in sustainability and clean energy.
The British establishment tends to deflect attention from the dangers of Islamism by attempting to silence those who point them out.
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 surge in support for Australia’s populist right-wing party One Nation suggests that immigration restrictionism has become increasingly popular with voters: a political trajectory that echoes that of many other Western nations.
In the wake of the Republican National Convention earlier this month, Fareed speaks with historian Niall Ferguson about how and why the modern-day GOP has changed since the Reagan era of the 1980s.
In Sudan, a civil war involving Arab supremacists backed by the UAE has left as many as 400,000 dead and displaced twelve million. The silence on campus is deafening.
Justice Department lawyers worked to convince a federal judge that they did not seek to indict the Maryland man in retaliation for his successful challenge of his illegal deportation to El Salvador.
Virginia redistricting and immigration debates intensify as NOVA's population growth reshapes congressional maps and political power statewide.
Republicans still see immigration as a potent political issue, even as polling shows them losing their longtime edge on the topic.
Americans under 30 swung to the right in 2024, but they’re not getting what they voted for.
Our reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs examines the context of a moment in the State of the Union speech when President Trump turned to a favorite tactic on immigration.
The group that has sued to stop the ballroom said it would immediately try again. The planned $400 million project has been a top priority of the president.
A forthcoming book reveals new details about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski.
Republican senators urged Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department to release any Epstein-related records that mention President Donald Trump, arguing that questions about withheld material will persist until the department discloses …
The '60 Minutes' report fixates on a semantic issue while conceding the underlying reality of violence against white farmers in South Africa.
The Trump administration came under fire for an operation that turned lethal and politically toxic. But the show of force may also have had a bigger purpose: to serve as a warning.
The Treasury Department on Thursday threatened to block MBaer Merchant Bank AG from accessing the U.S. financial system, accusing the Swiss institution of maintaining ties to sanctioned Iranian and Russian actors.
How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?
They found a bizarre, crass way to push back against Trump.
Trump administration proposes new HUD rule requiring citizenship verification for public housing, ending "do not contend" provision from Clinton era.
The Trump administration is signaling a different approach, after demanding an end to Cuba’s communist leadership.
Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, on Thursday became the second House Republican to back a resolution that would seek to limit President Donald Trump's ability to take unilateral military action against Iran, setting up a potential bipartisan clash ov…
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.
South Dakota Republicans worry that she might return.
The Trump administration sued Utah, Oklahoma and West Virginia, as well as Kentucky and New Jersey, to obtain unredacted voter registration databases in pursuit of baseless claims of voter fraud.
The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, is eyeing a bid to lead the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 2028 election cycle, two Republican senators told Politico.
Easing the child penalty in the labour market could also increase fertility
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent roughly six hours in the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center for a deposition before the House Oversight Committee.
Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
Either universities appoint and promote professors who display and disseminate intellectual virtues, or they reward those who exemplify and cultivate intellectual vices.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The crowd was fired up. The candidate was on her game. And I was escorted out by armed guards.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security is disrupting security and planning work for the 2026 World Cup and the nation's 250th anniversary celebrations.
President Trump's State of the Union address may energize his base, but it largely failed to address many of the top issues Americans face.
FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed more FBI agents and staff tied to the probe into Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.
Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate introduce the "Stop Illegal Alien Cops Act" aimed at preventing illegal aliens from carrying firearms as police officers.