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For at least the past several years, in the middle of the night on the last day of the legislative session, Illinois lawmakers have been asked to vote on budgets of over 3,000 pages mere hours after first seeing them.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Millennials in some ways have gotten a better deal than they realize.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.
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…
Republican margins to do things that pander specifically to Trump just got thinner.
Calls to “globalise the intifada” have produced a wave of antisemitic terror and encourage an unending cycle of violence.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, criticized the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, for posting a video that bragged about withholding money from the state.
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.
Sen. Bill Cassidy joins a short but notable list
Ralph Alvarado, Kentucky's first Hispanic state legislator, won the GOP primary to fill Rep. Andy Barr's open seat on Tuesday after a Trump endorsement.
The Highly Respected Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, an America First Patriot, and someone who has always been extremely loyal to me and our AMAZING MAGA MOVEMENT, is running for the United States Senate, to represent a place I love and WON…
The president faced pressure from his base to endorse the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton. Advisers had urged him to support Sen. John Cornyn, arguing that Paxton has too much baggage.
The president offered journalists the closest look yet at the construction project, where photographers captured images of the work in progress and Trump touted security measures.
Poland is a model NATO ally. Why are we canceling an important troop deployment there?
Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, appeared frustrated with questions from House Democrats who pressed him on a range of issues about the conflict.
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.
Democrats accused Republicans of propping up a fringe candidate in Texas, Maureen Galindo, in hopes of pushing her past a more viable Democrat in a House runoff next week.
Interesting things happen when members lose primaries and suddenly have the opportunity to do as they please.
The murder of Brian Thompson was, in the Mangionistas’ view, the propaganda of the deed that should galvanize similar acts of terror.
Keisha Lance Bottoms captures the Democratic nomination for Georgia governor, winning a majority of the vote in Tuesday's crowded primary election.
Doug Jones, the former Democratic senator in Alabama, on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for governor, the Associated Press reports.
Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the Democratic standard-bearer, despite worries about her single term as mayor of the state’s biggest city.
Charles Booker wins the Democratic nomination for Kentucky Senate, setting up a clash with Trump-backed Rep. Andy Barr and the SAVE America Act.
And in the end it wasn’t even terribly close.
The state’s lieutenant governor, Burt Jones, will face a billionaire health care executive, Rick Jackson, on June 16 to decide the party’s standard-bearer to succeed Gov. Brian Kemp.
Zach Dembo, a former federal prosecutor and Navy JAG officer, won the Democratic primary for Kentucky's 6th Congressional District to replace outgoing Rep. Andy Barr.
What radar and jet propulsion were to World War Two, robotics and artificial intelligence will be to the next war between great powers.
Donald Trump seems to have given up on Taiwan’s long-term future.
Poland was set to receive forces whose deployment was abruptly halted last week.
Democrats will try to make sure Republicans pay a political price if they support the president's new payout scheme.
Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican, will face the Democrat that he defeated in 2020, Doug Jones, after both easily won their primaries.
Expect the Texas Senate race to become the most stupendously expensive money pit in modern electoral history.
Representative Thomas Massie, President Trump’s chief G.O.P. antagonist in the House, lost to Ed Gallrein, Mr. Trump’s handpicked candidate.
New accountability rules could expose the childcare wage crisis and push states to fund early childhood work like the public good it is.
The president dropped his justified lawsuit against the IRS and administrative claims against the DOJ to instead seek financial relief for J6ers and other victims of government abuses.
Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones advances to a Georgia GOP gubernatorial runoff against billionaire Rick Jackson after a crowded eight-candidate field.
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.
Nathan Schachtman’s indispensable new paper explains how the International Agency for Research on Cancer has misled the public with its classifications of carcinogens.
CBC-funded TV producers using fake names are ambushing Canadians who take a positive view of their country—including an 82-year-old Ontario grandfather who invited the film crew into his home.
As they look to the midterm elections, Republicans have reason to worry -- but not despair.
While the British Medical Association now acknowledges that the Cass Review has been ‘vindicated,’ its Canadian counterparts still remain beholden to debunked activist slogans.
Three leading contenders, including a Trump-backed congressman, are aiming to replace Senator Tommy Tuberville. The winner will be favored in November.
Trump targeted GOP critic Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky's record-breaking $32 million House primary, backing former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein to unseat him.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Rep. Andy Barr topped an 11-person Kentucky Republican Senate primary, powered by Trump's endorsement, to vie for retiring Sen. McConnell's seat.
Democrat Janelle Stelson, a former TV anchor, beat Dauphin County Commissioner Justin Douglas to take on endangered GOP Rep. Scott Perry in November.
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville captures Alabama's GOP gubernatorial nomination, backed by Trump, as he seeks to succeed term-limited Gov. Kay Ivey.
The tax service argued that the Trump Organization tried to claim the same losses twice. The president said the audit was a “disgrace.”
On Monday, the US Department of Justice announced that Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, of Marina Del Rey had been indicted on federal charges for illegally paying homeless people to register to vot...
Texas Democratic candidate Maureen Galindo draws criticism from her own party over posts pledging to detain American Zionists at an ICE facility.
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Nancy Pelosi is officially wading into the race to replace her in Congress, endorsing San Francisco supervisor Connie Chan after weeks of more subtly expressing her support.
Investigating abuse is a duty. Laundering propaganda is not.
Drones taking off from a rooftop port during a state dinner? It would make for an exciting pre-credit sequence, at least.
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…
fut to unseat Black Democrat in Georgia could backfire, voters say.
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Derek Dooley, a former football coach, and Representative Buddy Carter were battling for the second spot in the runoff scheduled for June 16.
Red states are beginning to grasp their legitimate, yet largely neglected, power over graduation requirements.
The technology that is being developed to fight in Ukraine is changing warfare.
‘It’s a geopolitical and a world-defining, epoch-defining technology potentially. And so we cannot afford to lose.’
Parallel briefings by the two men offer a view of their contrasting styles.
In his speech, he offered something increasingly rare: a coherent defense of the American constitutional order rooted in first principles.
Election in Allentown pits three establishment insiders against a firefighter with a populist message
Why the enormous fund is so controversial.
The politics of corruption at the ICC and ICJ.
The vaguely worded S.B. 4186 could open the door to intentional legal undernourishment.
Demographic disparities in medical and scientific knowledge show up long before admissions time. DEI manipulation at the end of the process doesn't solve the problem.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has always been a component of the sharia-supremacist, jihadist terrorist regime formed in 1979.
It's not poverty that drives men to violence, but the experience of losing status.
Gov. Josh Shapiro and Republican state Treasurer Stacy Garrity cruise to nominations, setting up Pennsylvania's 2026 gubernatorial general election.
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Georgia was among six states where voters participated in primaries Tuesday. Its Senate race is among a handful that could determine party control next year.
Mr. Brooks will face Representative Ryan Mackenzie, a Republican, in the fall. He earned endorsements from across his party, including Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania.
Bragging about my PhD to general indifference during the second-most humiliating day of my life.