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MAGA Inc. drops $10 million in ads backing Ken Paxton against James Talarico in a neck and neck Texas Senate race that could reshape the midterms.
The Justice Department told a court the government would only conduct archaeological excavation, a day after a Trump official announced the project was in motion.
The administration is seeking to render the project a “fait accompli” by moving quickly, the veterans’ lawyers argued Friday.
Federal law prohibits employers from knowingly hiring an unauthorized immigrant and from employing someone without work authorization. Yet a growing network of nonprofits and universities is teaching the illegal alien community exactly how to get …
By enraging, warping, and thereby emasculating the Democratic Party, Trump made it possible for Trumpism to outlast himself.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Benjamin Ryan about his journalistic adventures reporting on AIDS, monkeypox, gender activism, and the Jason Arday saga.
Missouri’s Supreme Court said a map redrawn to help Republicans could not be used in November and said voters should decide on the new boundaries.
Again the gnawing question: what to do about terrorists who should be executed when it may be impossible to try them?
Racecars, crypto, billionaires, troops, sequins and a bloody cage fight.
A thrash-metal classic turns forty.
The dramatic outbursts of Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney show how livestreaming trials makes a circus of the justice process.
Scheduled for the middle of next week in Dallas, the event designed to project party unity will be missing a well-known figure.
Trump says Lindsay Clancy will pay "the price" after a mistrial was declared when the jury deadlocked 11-1 in the Massachusetts murder case.
The event with the Georgia and Texas Democrats will be hosted by Shonda Rhimes.
A D.C. property owner says squatters turned her basement apartment into a drug haven, and police treated it as a landlord-tenant dispute only.
Jackson Township's mayor says New Jersey's Immigrant Trust Directive must be rolled back after an unlicensed illegal immigrant allegedly killed a baby.
The political pancake breakfast is one of the longstanding traditions of the Calgary Stampede, Alberta's annual rodeo and fair. Members of the province's governing United Conservative Party hosted one on July 2, the day after Canada Day. The far-r…
Until New York puts a halt to virtue-signaling climate policies, the state's costs will keep going up.
A Washington Post review found 39 campaigns that disclosed payments to AI companies, but consultants say many more do it and don’t disclose it.
Anna D. Shapiro’s recent revival of Eric Bentley’s 1972 play about the HUAC hearings offered entertainment along with the pleasures of moral certainty and ideological reinforcement.
Data from Gallup shows that Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have their largest advantage over Republicans since 2008.
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…
Republicans, nervous about the tight Senate race in the Lone Star state, hope Trump’s political war chest can boost GOP nominee Ken Paxton.
An unorthodox survey suggests it’s time for the Australian government to concede defeat in the tobacco wars. Will it have the guts to do so?
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Do we really want to financially incentivize access to suicide and let doctors get rich providing it?
By Ana Palacio, Project Syndicate September 1, 2026European Union leaders should have received several messages during the recent surge of migrants into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. In particular, cohesion without trust is fragile; dependence wit…
The president ordered his administration to lift Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves, again wading into a fraught debate between ranchers and conservationists.
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that political parties should get discounted TV ad rates when they coordinate spending with candidates.
The president will deliver a keynote speech at the first-ever midterm convention Republicans are putting on next week.
Another senseless murder elicits a depraved reaction.
The Chinese Communist Party cannot and will not accept that its time in the sun has passed. But the public knows.
Dan Driscoll's exit as Army secretary intensifies debate over whether Trump's Pentagon overhaul strengthens or destabilizes military leadership.
Photos show a partial ceiling collapse in a main Kennedy Center hallway, which officials say underscores the urgent need for Trump-backed renovations.
The Canadian economy suffers from a lack of dynamism and excessive dependence on American markets.
Political scientist Richard Hanania discusses why populism usually fails, why Western elites matter, immigration, MAGA, H-1B visas, housing and declining fertility.
His program-both welfare cuts and new benefits-is a model of how to set aside partisanship to help kids.
The Court will be presented with a kabuki dispute over a power the USPS isn’t claiming, even after the president ordered it to claim precisely that power.
Republicans have fretted over his war chest sitting on the sidelines. The president says he plans to hold onto some of the money for 2028.
The state has not elected a Republican to the Senate since 2010. But Chris Pappas, the likely Democratic nominee, anticipates a tough race against a well-known opponent, John E. Sununu.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
To be naked is to give up obsessive self-presentation and take off the mask.
In the New York City suburbs, appealing to moderation is a winning bet.
The Trump administration dropped plans for a fund to compensate people who say they were unfairly prosecuted, but several lawsuits are ongoing.
The Trump administration does not know how to use American power to expand American influence, and its officials do not care to learn.
A new program offers an alternative to the standard academic Ph.D. in science, and this competition will prove beneficial.
Artificial-intelligence tools increasingly allow political actors to fool voters — and help candidates cast doubt on reality.
A U.S.-based Australian Rules Football league allows trans-identified men to play on women’s teams. When one turned out to be a convicted sex criminal, no one wanted to talk about it.
Several congressional hopefuls have removed or downplayed mentions of the president and his priorities as Trump’s popularity wanes.
The fact that intelligence leaks may embarrass the president is not a reason to refrain from investigating them.
The president’s strategy, message and spending have left the G.O.P. in a difficult spot as lawmakers try to outrun his sagging approval ratings.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
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…
A former Virginia Democratic Party finance chair and 2024 DNC delegate was sentenced to a decade behind bars for child sexual abuse material and other child sex abuse allegations.
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A financial filing announcing the TV and digital ad buy is the first general election spending by MAGA Inc. The group intends to boost the Republican nominee, Ken Paxton.
‘I think there’s something admirable and rare about going to bat for your old pal.’
If Americans want inflation to return to normal levels, the Fed is going to have to do what it knows it has to do.
The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.
Democrats are favored to win the House, but Republicans have viable paths to keeping control. These are the key themes and races to keep an eye on.
Unlike dozens of similar strikes, no one was killed after people suspected of drug smuggling were removed from what the U.S. military described as a floating refueling station.
A convicted MS-13 killer known as "La Bruja" or "the witch" is free in California after a federal judge ruled ICE held him without a required bond hearing for five months.
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
It’s not clear to me that Vance’s statement is especially supportable.
Watching Gillo Pontecorvo’s film six decades after its release permits a nuanced understanding of the events that it portrays, which was unavailable when it first came out.
Election experts warn the Supreme Court that the 9th Circuit's ruling could make it impossible to ever remove noncitizens from state voter rolls.
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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.
Today's jobs report was a strong one, and encouraging in its broad-based gains. Manufacturing is now up by more than 50,000 jobs since February. Combine that with the increase in job openings and total manufacturing labor demand over the period is…
Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be sued under North Carolina's alienation of affection law after a judge ruled her messages establish jurisdiction.
William Lawrence, the Democratic nominee in one of the country's most competitive House races in Michigan, deleted hundreds of old social media posts in which he embraced police and prison abolition, called for nationalizing fossil-fuel companies …
Roy Cooper appointed a convicted Bloods gang member to his criminal justice reform task force in 2020, a Washington Free Beacon report reveals.
The president had ordered repairs to the iconic, and Ionic, columns outside the White House entrance.