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The Bureau of Prisons policy, which has been blocked by lower courts, would give transgender prisoners access to psychotherapy and antidepressants instead of certain gender-transition medical treatments.
The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan to give away 70,000 free Metropolitan Opera tickets sparked fierce accusations of misplaced priorities.
Bailey, the former Missouri attorney general, was hired for the leadership role about a year ago.
A man leaves a dish in the sink. By the end of the night he has been accused of gaslighting, told he lacks emotional intelligence, and sent to sleep on the sofa. Our first feature this week comes from Steve Salerno asks a hard question: has a prof…
The D.C. Council member was charged with taking bribes from a city contractor who handed him envelopes of cash during four meetings in 2024, all of them secretly videotaped by the FBI.
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…
You know what publications do with someone who doesn’t matter? They usually ignore him entirely.
The taxpayer-funded campaign borrows the president's political rhetoric as the White House defends the spots as “public service” announcements.
A new exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg peddles PLO myths about Israel’s war for independence in 1948.
Administration officials are still pursuing plans to build a permanent fence around the park.
The orchestra, which was to have celebrated its 40th anniversary at the Kennedy Center, started its nomadic season in Bethesda, Md.
It was a week of emotional goodbyes for my 18-year-old daughter as she left home for university. She had a family barbecue, a bonfire night with her besties, a big hug with her dog, and finally a tearful farewell at the airport with her younger si…
Republicans have let conservatives down on gas prices and the SAVE Act. But staying home in midterm elections would put their biggest wins at risk.
Movers never seem to have working clocks.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Democrats need to flip several in red states to win back the Senate majority. Here are their best chances.
Dario Amodei, who is also the company’s chief executive, will join the president at the White House for a private dinner. Mr. Trump has dismissed his cautions.
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We still have over a month to see how it plays out, and ‘Vote for the crook: It’s important’ has been a winning message before.
Bobby Pulido would be the only member of Congress with a Latin Grammy to his name. That comes with its upsides and downsides.
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.
Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz says fraud shouldn't define his legacy, but Republican lawmakers fire back with a list of grievances beyond the scandal.
There are two kinds of people in the world: people who love The Bear and people who hate The Bear.
U2 reconsidered at fifty.
Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s extraordinary testimony about the Hiroshima attack and its aftermath has been published by his daughter some forty years after his death.
In a debate with the Democrat Rebecca Bennett, the New Jersey Republican said he was willing to take on the president over funding for a Hudson River tunnel project.
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.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is launching a six-week campaign blitz that will take him to more than 40 congressional districts across 22 states through Election Day, Axios has learned.
This is one of the most important but underappreciated civil rights issues of our time.
Decades after his death, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen still commands an audience. Madeleine Long reports from his beatification in St. Louis.
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
There is nothing holding back Republican political fortunes this year more than the war that President Donald Trump started with Iran.
Last week, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) told a House Judiciary subcommittee that Homeland Security's summer arrests had crossed a line. "For the first time this summer," she said, "the majority of people that DHS arrested were people who pose ab…
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
The Michigan Senate candidate, like so many on the left, makes a political fetish of ‘Palestine.’
I’m seeing a lot of strong notice of this video of former Killers frontman Brandon Flowers performing on The Tonight Show.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
On the ground at a pro–data center party.
The political environment for the party has led to widespread alarm. “It feels like it could be a wipeout,” one strategist said.
Andrew Bailey cited family reasons for his FBI resignation, expressing confidence that Kash Patel will continue reform efforts and restore public trust.
In their last week in Washington before the elections, GOP lawmakers are pressing their party to do more to address the cost of living.
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…
Many prominent Republican figures are skeptical the GOP will have any success in November's midterm elections.
The president’s first one-on-one meeting with Dario Amodei followed months of tensions.
A protester crashed a Washington, D.C., data center party, shouting about water use as Trump pushes AI dominance and rapid buildout over China.
The fate of two cotton brokers highlights how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has scaled back its regulatory actions not just for crypto cases but also for the kinds of cases it has long policed.
The president, booed at other big sporting events this year, drew mostly cheers at Neyland Stadium. In the parking lots, some of his own voters had misgivings.
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Trump announces Mesabi Metallics' $15 billion Iowa steel plant, but the massive facility won't produce its first steel until 2030 at the earliest.
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House Republicans summon ActBlue attorney Ronald Machen for a closed-door interview, citing contradictions in his prior statements on donor verification.
The British were narrowly spared an opportunity to once again display their profound civilizational insecurity.
Christians have long honored images of Christ without mistaking the wood for God, but one can't spit on a crucifix without spitting at Christ.
Pascal Bruckner’s book about victimhood culture invites us to choose liberation, and to move from resentment to a secular kind of grace.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to enforce a Bureau of Prisons policy banning hormone therapy and accommodations for transgender inmates.
Something is missing from the New York Times list of the best 100 television shows of this century.
Frustrated by $4.50 gas? Before voting Democrat-or skipping the polls-remember when prices topped $5. Here's why their energy record won't fix what's hurting your wallet.
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
Mr. Bailey, who was part of a three-person leadership team atop the bureau, lasted barely a year.
It’s Sept. 28 — 36 days away from the midterms. Here’s the state of play.
In 1967, left-wing intellectuals accused America of genocide in Vietnam—they were wrong then, and they’re wrong again now.
‘These are the real rich in America.’
JD Vance targets H-1B visa abuse, saying large companies lay off thousands of American workers then claim they desperately need foreign labor.
Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is heard in a resurfaced audio clip questioning whether football is "ethical" due to CTE risks.
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.
Trump is following one of the Republican Party's longstanding traditions: Burning the economy to the ground.
Senate Republicans force a test vote on the Ratepayer Protection Act, daring Democrats to block a data center affordability bill boosting Jon Husted.
From beef to diesel, White House efforts to bring down prices - the top concern among midterm voters - have failed so far to pan out.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's office offers $575 taxpayer-funded scholarships training immigrants in civic engagement and community organizing.
The Church of England and the failures of interfaith politics.
It's hard to ignore the biggest challenge facing working families. Prices are ticking up at the grocery checkout at every visit. Gas costs well over $4 a gallon - even higher in some places. It was more expensive to run the air conditioner this su…
Trump has been doing a lot of ‘lashing out’ lately, and his foremost sources of irritation seem to be his fellow Republicans.
The gala screening of the documentary “American Martyrs” was the latest effort by Trump supporters to rewrite the history of the Capitol attack.
Pain at the pump for rural Republicans is shifting the political map.
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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she's weighing a 2028 presidential run or a challenge to Chuck Schumer's New York Senate seat after midterm elections.
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.
Even some devoted conservatives know more about Sherrod Brown, the Democratic challenger, than the Republican incumbent, who needs the MAGA base to turn out.
To no small extent, Americans have grown accustomed to being watched.
Investor Misha Saul joins Claire Lehmann to discuss Australia’s declining productivity, immigration policy, and the political choices shaping the country’s future.