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Jeb Bush praised Trump for crippling Iran but warned that 300 Shahed-136 explosive drones are reportedly stationed in Cuba, posing a threat.
A preliminary hearing to establish whether there is enough evidence against Tyler James Robinson for the case to proceed to trial enters Day 3 in Utah.
The Post asked would-be replacement candidates whether they wanted the support of Platner, under fire over a sexual assault allegation. Four responded, in the negative.
The race is the next, and perhaps biggest, battle between the Democrats’ warring factions.
Thirty years ago, the Democratic Party persuaded the American people to stop caring about the moral character of public men.
The president embraced the alliance in a meeting Wednesday, extolling member nations’ defense spending and saying nothing about the Danish territory, officials said.
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.
Potential candidates and their backers moved quickly to gain an edge in the contest over who would replace Graham Platner if he exits the key Senate race.
President Trump said the United States would license Ukraine to produce Patriots, which can intercept ballistic missiles. But it could be months or years before those are ready.
Recent wins by democratic socialists have Trump reviving Cold War-era fears
Graham Platner’s bid for the Senate inspired progressive Democrats. But the campaign, which he suspended Wednesday, was messy, disorganized and ultimately doomed by a steady drip of scandal.
Claudia Verhoeven’s new book is a valuable contribution to the crowded library of Mansonia.
The proposed 250-foot arch would violate a height limit on Washington structures under the traditional reading of the law. But the panel, now led by the president’s allies, has other ideas.
The campaign for the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine called the allegation “categorically false and politically motivated.”
Wikipedia is decidedly not a lovely, idealistic project staffed by students, scholars, and retirees who just want to share their knowledge to benefit the world. To be sure, there are people involved for whom this is true. But the site has manifest…
Some voters said they stuck with the progressive candidate through several controversies, but drew the line after a new allegation of sex assault.
Now that a liberal woman has credibly accused him of rape, the rats have deserted the sinking ship and the Democrat-endorsed US Senate candidate for Maine has dropped out.
Mr. Jackson, a longtime state legislator, lost a Democratic primary for governor this year. He has already earned some high-profile endorsements.
Mitch McConnell's weeks-long absence removes one key "no" vote on the SAVE America Act, but Senate Republicans still face a filibuster problem.
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
There is a logic to the things we do, and we often don’t understand what we do.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Aaron Pete, Chief of the Chawathil First Nation, about reserve governance, residential schools, ‘unmarked graves,’ and intra-Indigenous politics.
Fund manager Derek Francis tells Claire Lehmann that Treasury's modelling of Australia's new capital gains tax contains a basic error — one that could push tax rates on shares as high as 70 percent.
Will Democrats choose another progressive nominee or distance themselves from Graham Platner’s wing of the party amid his scandals?
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
This is a movie in love with the things worth keeping: play, loyalty, and the small rites by which one generation gives the next something to hold.
Government regulations add nearly $132,000 to a new home's price, up 40% since 2021, according to a new NAHB study on the housing affordability crisis.
Trump said Democrats will struggle to replace Graham Platner after the Maine Senate candidate suspended his campaign amid rape allegations from Politico.
The last time the justices granted a rehearing request after a case decision was in 1965. The court has only once reversed itself after rehearing a case.
If I lose, they win. If they win, you lose.
The EPA proposes eliminating DEF-related engine deratements that force heavy-duty trucks and farm equipment into limp mode at five miles per hour.
How decades of invisible science produced two cancer breakthroughs.
Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett, a liberal and a conservative, are set to testify before a House subcommittee next Tuesday.
St. Louis Park Mayor Nadia Mohamed faced backlash for traveling to Somalia during America's 250th anniversary, leading to her posting an "apology" video on social media.
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.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
A rich woman for whom I did household chores as a teenager remarked to me once that "Money doesn't buy happiness." I don't recall why she made the remark, but I do recall thinking, "Easy for you to say!"
Iran said it had targeted more than 80 U.S. military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait, after the U.S. launched strikes in response to attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The swift exit of Graham Platner from the Maine Senate race followed Eric Swalwell’s similar exit from the California governor’s race, but Republicans have taken a different tack.
Though far smaller than in its heyday, the city is still thriving.
As it turned out, Trump behind the scenes was a little less bombastic than Trump in front of cameras.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
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…
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At some point in childhood, through one classic fable or another, most of us absorb the lesson that looks can be deceiving. It's what's on the inside that counts.
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What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
Apart from the Declaration and Constitution, there is perhaps no more essentially American document than Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet ‘Common Sense.’
Trump says he will immediately ask the Supreme Court for a rehearing on its 6-3 birthright citizenship ruling, calling the decision "absolutely insane."
Unless Mitch McConnell isn’t going to be able to return to the Senate, he shouldn’t quit.
NGO Monitor founder Gerald Steinberg on how Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and the UN's "civil society" experiment were hijacked — and why journalists still buy it.
Go figure, it turns out the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One isn’t as perfectly safe and secure as the administration insisted it was.
Bourdain could not accept that intoxication is a danger to be managed rather than a glory to be pushed deeper into.
Mr. Platner’s withdrawal, which comes after a woman accused him of rape, creates deep uncertainty in a race that both parties see as crucial to their hopes of winning the Senate.
The deadline to pick a new nominee is July 27 and candidates are already lining up. State party leaders said they would hold some form of nominating convention.
Trump ties the SAVE America Act to $350 billion in defense spending, pressuring Senate Republicans to overcome the filibuster before midterms.
A society without a posterity in view will almost necessarily not conserve what is good.
Rep. Massie of Kentucky said the GOP "has made no serious effort to repeal Obamacare and legalize affordable health insurance after taking control of the House, Senate & White House."
This is no longer an election; it is now a Looney Tunes short.
Some on the left blinded themselves with ends-justify-the-means thinking. That backfired.
Microsoft was approved for 2,273 H-1B visas this year while laying off 1,600 Xbox workers, sparking outrage over American jobs going to foreign workers.
Can we just wait and see?
What about John Adams?
In a letter to staff, Lonnie G. Bunch III wrote that the report was “not a fair characterization of the work and totality of the National Museum of American History.”
How the beautiful game convinced the world that boredom is sophistication.
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 extraordinary story of how a fragile Holocaust songbook, hidden for decades in a Sydney cupboard, came back to the world.
Martin Cuellar's indictment for allegedly misusing county funds complicates Rep. Henry Cuellar's re-election bid months after Trump pardoned the congressman.
Thirty years as a high-functioning neurodivergent project manager.
Recently, I was helping a pro-Israel client decide where to spend its conference budget - which rooms their people would actually be welcome in. Evangelical conferences, obviously. Jewish federations, of course.
The state Democratic Party has said it will pick a replacement through a nominating convention before a July 27 deadline. Candidates are already lining up.
Anyone hoping that the next piece of news of Iranian perfidy will fundamentally change Trump’s view is emoting in vain.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Dr. Shah, an epidemiologist who led Maine’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, finished second in the ranked-choice primary for governor.
Between us, didn't the term oysterman ring some alarm bells?
Comparing yourself to others locks you into a contest you can never win and makes other people’s wins feel like your defeats.