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The activist’s assassination unleashed anti-Semitism that is pulling the Trump coalition apart.
Bitcoin could drop further after wiping out all of its price gains since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump as liquidity is expected to remain thin for the near future.
While other jurisdictions adopt balanced, evidence-based protocols for treating gender dysphoria, the CPS has doubled down on an obsolete policy instructing doctors to reflexively ‘affirm’ trans-identified youth.
Scores of claims are expected to arise out of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Experts say suing the government will be tough.
Leslie Voltaire, a member of Haiti's transitional council, says the end of Haitian's temporary protected status by the United States could lead to major economic and social disaster.
The Takfiris are back in business.
Governor Hochul's proposed budget would further balloon state expenditures on a failing education system.
A new book catalogues the damage to Canadian society caused by a 2021 social panic over non-existent ‘unmarked graves.’
The gap between the self-regard of those who were fired and the contributions of those who were fired is enormous.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
Republicans are worried about the midterm elections, but the president doesn’t seem to be.
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.
Six years after leading Trump’s first impeachment trial, Schiff reflects on the balance Democrats must strike between opposing Trump and lawmaking.
The longevity of the Epstein story owes less to new facts of criminal conduct than to its symbolic utility in alleging deviancy.
'I just sent a letter to Mitch McConnell asking his committee to stop stalling the SAVE Act,' Rep. Brandon Gill said.
Representative Mark Amodei of Nevada added his name to the growing list of Republicans planning to give up their seats as their party faces losses that could cost them the House.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Saturday he will travel to the United States in two weeks for a meeting with President Donald Trump, aligning his visit with the inaugural leaders' gathering of the newly formed Board of Peace.
The U.S. State Department has deleted all posts published before President Donald Trump began his second term on January 20, 2025, from its official X (formerly Twitter) accounts, according to a report by NPR on Saturday.
Why doctors who led the pandemic response in their states are running for office.
The paper of record for the nation’s capital cut a third of its staff this week. It didn’t have to be like this.
Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries may call it common-sense solutions, but I would call their list of 40 demands for amnesty-like attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nothing less than abolishing ICE altogether, and r…
President Donald Trump reopened a nearly 5,000-square-mile preserve east of Cape Cod to commercial fishing, reversing Obama-era restrictions.
If the ‘courageous doctor’ intentionally administered an overdose with the intent to kill Tessa Newsom, it was murder.
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…
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
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…
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…
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.
DHS fires senior CBP official for allegedly leaking sensitive agent information to press as death threats against border agents surge 8,000% nationwide.
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 former speaker, a prodigious fund-raiser and shrewd campaign strategist, seldom intervenes in primaries but has made an exception for a Kennedy before.
It’s unclear whether President Trump will attend the retreat in person, though it’s likely that RNC leaders will try to fit him into the event’s programming.
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
For the past few years, Swiss oncologist Christoph Renner has treated blood cancer patients with Lunsumio, a new drug that helps the immune system recognize and destroy malignant cells. Then, last summer, Renner got an email from Roche Holding AG,…
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Purple Heart recognition for two West Virginia National Guard members, one killed and another recovering.
We all should want a system that functions in a way that balances the imperative for facilitating majority rule with the imperative for securing minority rights.
Amid an immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis area, judges have lost patience with the Trump administration, saying officials are flouting their orders.
Dr. Christopher M. Palmer said in an interview that the keto diet, while promising, did not “cure” schizophrenia as the health secretary had claimed.
Steve Cortes investigates the rapidly growing trend of foreign students attending American universities in huge numbers, including 6,000 Chinese nationals enrolled in the University of Illinois, and asks how long U.S. taxpayers will continue to su…
America and the West have once again betrayed their Kurdish allies. Al-Sharaa’s assault on the Kurds of northern Syria, with Turkish backing, is just the latest chapter in the Kurds’ long struggle for self-rule.
Ohio man allegedly threatened to kill Vice President JD Vance during January visit. Federal agents also found that he had child sexual abuse materials.
Aaron Magid has written a timely biography of a consequential monarch.
Mr. Hegseth’s order appeared to target his alma mater, Harvard’s Kennedy School for public policy.
Senior FBI officials under Director Patel ordered agents to halt an investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good amid concerns the probe could undermine public statements made by President Trump and senior officials, according to multiple s…
When Chuck Schumer released a brief list of Senate Democratic demands for reforming Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of his maneuvers just prior to the beginning of a partial government shutdown last week, he had the short-term tactical…
The show opens with the launch of TrumpRx, a new government website offering discounts on prescription drugs. "It wasn't really called Obamacare, but everyone put his name on it. They promised it would lower costs and you could keep your doctor, b…
For their research showing that rape is generally motivated by sexual desire, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer were subjected to death threats and hounded in their personal and professional lives. And yet, they were right.
Some offices are so decimated that the Justice Department has sent in military lawyers. More recently, officials asked for volunteers from other offices who can quickly deploy to places in desperate need.
Donald Trump's return to the presidency last year set in motion a series of events that first shook Paul Weiss and later, with the Justice Department's release of records involving the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, led…
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is ending graduate-level programs for military personnel at the school, which he claimed had become a breeding ground for “radical ideologies.”
Watching cities recover-or, rather, fail to recover-from the late January snowstorm reminded me of a recent conversation with friends who had moved from New York City out to my neck of the (literal) woods.
The International Olympic Committee said on Saturday it hoped for "fair play" after US Vice President JD Vance was booed at the opening ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
That's the vision that drove our mayoral campaign. It's the foundation of my administration. It's also what Governor Kathy Hochul said as we celebrated an agreement to deliver universal childcare-one of the largest expansions of the social safety …
The idea that we should redistribute wealth by fiat from prosperous to low-income and stagnating countries remains popular even though it is profoundly misguided.
In this telling, AIPAC is to blame for its own unenviable circumstance.
Now come negotiations over the administration’s immigration crackdown.
The president doesn’t seem to fire people anymore, but he marginalizes them in other ways.
The far-right group’s views and tactics are now emulated by federal agents.
The president has argued his drug-pricing initiative ‘should win us the midterms.’ Experts say its impact could be positive but limited.
Gov. Ron DeSantis celebrates a report claiming the DOJ dismissed a complaint against the Hope Florida scandal, calling criticism a "witch hunt."
America's biggest funder of the humanities subsidizes ‘Ecowomanism,' ‘Black Trans Studies' and the like.
Virginia Democrats propose 10% tax on fantasy football leagues as part of sweeping tax increases. New levy would hit fantasy sports revenue statewide.
A U.S. official called the deal a by-product of ongoing efforts to end the Ukraine war. It came as a key nuclear treaty between Washington and Moscow expired.
Sometimes whole milk is just whole milk. It’s about improving health, not promoting bigotry.
Snow uncleared, garbage piling up? Mamdani’s remedy is to take a page out of the Middle Eastern playbook he’s spent his entire adult life admiring.
Training in argumentation can prevent rancor and conflict.
Tim Scott, the sole Black Republican in the Senate, called it “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.”
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
In the city where George Floyd was killed, Trump hastens a new social breakdown.
The documentary highlights a few notable predecessors in the role, burnishing Mrs. Trump’s image by extension. But one apt comparison is pointedly left out.
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s latest novel is a heavy-handed parable designed to show that Islamist radicalisation in Australia is merely a myth invented by a racist establishment. In the wake of the Bondi shooting, this seems less believable than ever.
Ex-"Squad" Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., dished out over $20,000 to a consulting firm that appears to be the same one that got Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., in hot water for fundraising help.
The broken relationship between Minnesota and the federal government
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Saturday called for the Senate to hold floor votes on multiple immigration enforcement measures, saying the public deserves to see where lawmakers stand as Congress faces mounting pressure to resolve Department of H…
And he’s withholding congressionally appropriated federal funding for a major infrastructure project, in violation of the law, to make it happen.
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The Maryland governor discussed Trump, the country’s divisions and his workout routine.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that military education programs with Harvard University will end in the 2026-27 academic year.
House Republicans plan a vote next week on the SAVE America Act, a voting requirements bill that would pair proof-of-citizenship rules for voter registration with a nationwide voter ID mandate at the polls, as GOP leaders try to pressure the Senat…
William J. Mann’s new book about the notorious Black Dahlia case is a valuable corrective to the cottage industry of speculative theories that proliferated after her murder in 1947.
‘I find the sense of entitlement with other people’s money wildly annoying.’
Documents indicate that Navy Secretary John Phelan was a passenger on Jeffrey Epstein’s Boeing 727 for two transatlantic flights in 2006.
The Protecting America Initiative, a group that says it focuses on countering Communist China's influence in the U.S., launched a new TV and digital ad campaign urging Congress to pass a new farm bill in 2026, arguing that lawmakers have not enact…
Prosecutions, referenda, recalls and regulatory agencies have, over the years, curbed some of California's government corruption, but not all of it.
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.
The chemical, dicamba, is used to control weeds on genetically engineered crops. Courts previously had restricted its use.
If the Cities Church case falls apart, it will not be the first such embarrassment for Trump’s Justice Department.
Off the coast of Cape Cod, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is a unique stretch of ocean that had been protected for a decade.
Ties between the exchange and the president’s company, World Liberty Financial, have only strengthened since the president pardoned Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao.
“No, I didn’t make a mistake,” the president said.
The decision kept at bay a freeze of nearly $10 billion in child care and other social service funds destined for Minnesota and four other Democratic-led states.
Presidential adviser Dick Morris told Newsmax on Saturday that a social media video depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as monkeys was "obviously stupid" and "obviously a mistake."
The FBI’s search and seizure of material from Fulton County election offices marks a major escalation.
Senate Republicans face tough midterm battles defending their 53-47 majority, with Maine's Collins and seats in North Carolina, Ohio most vulnerable.
Officials announce the arrest of a man they called a key participant in the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed a U.S. ambassador and three others.
California pandemic loan fraud totals $8.6 billion as Small Business Administration suspends over 111,000 borrowers. Kelly Loeffler criticized Biden administration.
Grade inflation is the predictable result of how American universities now organize teaching, labor, and money.
Republicans have criticized Democrats’ proposals as “a ridiculous Christmas list” but say they’re willing to negotiate.
Trump’s team wants a reset on its mass-deportation goals, not a retreat.
Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt said on Saturday that while it is positive that talks with the U.S. are ongoing, they are not yet where Greenland wants them to be, and it is too early to predict where they will lead.
He won’t get what he wants, but if he did, it would veer close to karmic justice.
Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order.
Letters to the Editor: Friday 30 January — February 6, 2026
President Donald Trump says Iran "wants to make a deal very badly" after indirect nuclear talks mediated by Oman reportedly show diplomatic progress.
Stellantis has joined the list of car companies taking massive charges as a result of their adventures in electric vehicles.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said she intends to press former President Clinton under sworn testimony about his past associations with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that a closed deposition is the appropriate venue to pursue unanswered q…
The president has escalated his language as his administration takes steps to involve itself more in election matters.