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A Republican state senator holds a razor-thin margin in a key race that could end the GOP majority and give Democrats a trifecta.
President Donald Trump threatened to immediately double tariffs on Mexico if it fails to stop migrant caravans marching toward the U.S. southern border.
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…
Democrats and some Republicans say President Trump is missing an opportunity to find consensus on an issue that has bedeviled past administrations.
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The defense secretary has posited a claim that warrants scrutiny. A too-rapid House impeachment finding would confirm claims of a political stunt.
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Sam Wasson’s new Capra biography is a welcome corrective, but it goes too easy on the director and misreads his decline.
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New members of Congress in "The Bloc" say they're undecided on Hakeem Jeffries for House speaker, pressing for legislative guarantees before January.
Eleven Democrats were absent, helping Republicans shelve the charges against the defense secretary. It drew sharp criticism a week after the party’s sweeping election victories.
A growing rift between baby boomers and younger generations is destabilizing society. It's time to declare a truce.
Russia has undoubtedly been trying to inflame the situation in France, but it is unlikely to have made any significant difference.
It'll be funny in a couple months,' wrote Jane Doe to one of the men she later accused of rape. Kat Rosenfield asks: What happened in between?
The G.O.P. intends to win confirmation of about two dozen federal judges before the party loses power. But Democrats promise to do what they can to stop them.
Prominent Democratic political figures and Mississippi's GOP Gov. Tate Reeves congratulated Scott Colom for winning the state's U.S. Senate race.
A reported heated phone call between the two leaders is making even clearer the diverging U.S. and Israeli goals in the Iran war.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Pete Buttigieg, Josh Shapiro and other 2028 presidential hopefuls gather in Denver to debate the Democratic Party's direction after midterm wins.
Strategists for Senate Democrats say they spent record sums reaching voters, particularly younger ones, on nontraditional platforms such as YouTube and various streaming sites.
The proper response to hateful attitudes toward minorities is not to add another federal holiday to the calendar.
The 2026 Distinguished German American of the Year Award goes to . . .
A debate against Donald Trump in which Mr. Biden, then the president, repeatedly lost his train of thought led to widespread Democratic pressure to end his campaign, which Mr. Biden eventually did.
Bernie Moreno called the 2028 Senate map "absolutely brutal" for the GOP as Republicans face defending deep-red seats in both Carolinas and Iowa.
Delray Beach canceled its 2027 St. Patrick's Day Parade and Pride event after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida's new law restricting DEI-related funding.
The former deputy mayor of Jerusalem on her family’s Sephardi history, 7 October, and why she wants Jewish students to study in Israel.
Schoolchildren will learn about Donald Trump more than a hundred years from now, but his successor will likely be a footnote and historical nobody.
Some lawmakers were delayed returning to the Capitol from events, while others were out of town.
Democrat Scott Colom widened his lead over Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday.
Simon Sebag Montefiore’s sprawling 125-year history of the Middle East is flawed and overambitious but filled with eye-catching detail.
Sen. Jim Justice said the GOP can "forget" reclaiming the Senate in 2028 after Democrats flipped at least eight seats in their historic blue wave midterm.
Last week I interviewed a president who is at a post-midterms crossroads. His party may be defeated, but he still has decisions to make that will determine his legacy.
Three Times journalists break down the twists and turns in a race that captured national attention.
Health care is too utilitarian as it is.
He’ll be the first Black senator from the state since the end of Reconstruction.
Democrats gained trifectas in six new states, flipped 12 state legislative chambers and are poised to flip six governorships.
Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola lost her court bid for ballot records and saw her narrow Alaska lead over Dan Sullivan shrink Wednesday.
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…
Two new books detail the workings of cults—from nineteenth-century Prussian heretics to the ‘rationalist’ Zizians of California
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.
Judge Posner pushed the boundaries of judging. When he stayed within them, his brilliance had few peers.
'Holding a rushed election ignores the message our voters sent,' Sen. Ron Johnson said of Thune's hasty installment as leader.
United Futures Inc. is accused of being a shell organization set up to illegally conceal donors’ identities by funneling money to donate to Democratic super PACs.
Security guarantees for Ukraine were never credible.
A new documentary about volunteer medics in Gaza has been made to elicit an emotive reaction from decided progressives, and to reinforce their existing biases.
He served nearly 36 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago and was ranked by many as second in influence only to members of the Supreme Court.
To all Americans who have answered the call and put on our nation’s cloth: thank you.
From coerced confessions to the creation of an alternative court system, years of U.S. government decisions doomed speedy trial prospects.
The upheaval points to a broader dilemma spurred by the election: whether the department can carry out President Trump’s priorities as career officials eye the exits and senior department officials resign.
In France, it seems it's a greater crime to criticize immigration - or, god forbid, Islam - than to destroy cities and terrorize civilians.
Nvidia will be a crucial player in the effort to stay ahead of China. Without Huang, it will be fundamentally weakened. It may be already.
Trump’s foreign policy aimed to please both hawks and doves, and it failed.
Symone D. Sanders Townsend: People in Mississippi had already fought for a fairer chance to choose who represented them, and when they got that chance, they used it.
Hakeem Jeffries says Democrats will "follow the facts" as Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia prepare to lead oversight of Elon Musk and DOGE.
The defense secretary, his wife and aides were admonished after they were observed laughing and talking during a visit to the sacred site at Arlington National Cemetery.
Alex Karp, the chief executive of Palantir, said Wednesday he's a staunch liberal, a seeming departure from his position during the Trump administration.
A Pentagon spokesman said the sentinel had “reminded everyone to maintain decorum” after laughter was heard from a group visiting the burial site with the Defense Secretary on Wednesday.
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Members of the ultraconservative bloc argued that House Republicans should have done more to push President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration agenda and ensure the passage of voter ID legislation.
Representative Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican, said he would use his waning time in office to prod his party to vote for “sanity” and break with President Trump.
Ro Khanna says Democrats can pursue Trump investigations and tackle affordability at once, arguing accountability for the Iran war would lower prices.
Dear Israelis, As you know, we just had one of our most remarkable elections ever. Americans of all political stripes rose up to reject a president...
With the size of the Democrats' House majority comes incredible pressure, a Connecticut congressman-elect says.
DHS says a twice-deported Honduran national won asylum claiming transgender persecution before allegedly trying to storm a United Airlines cockpit.
What's next after the midterms? We asked operatives, activists, journalists, and elected officials across the political spectrum-from Pete Buttigieg and Zohran Mamdani to Karl Rove and Oren Cass. Here's what they said.
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The making of John Boorman's misbegotten sequel to ‘The Exorcist’ and our fascination with creative failure.
Video showed demonstrators from a pro-Palestinian protest throwing projectiles at former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. after he attended an event at Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday.
Nothing short of being at the precipice, on the sharp edge between the world as it was and the world as it will be, ever seems able to describe the present in terms that adequately capture it.
As US Special Envoy to Sudan, Tom Perriello was sent to help return the country to civilian rule. Sudanese democrats say his choices empowered the very networks that buried it.
Hakeem Jeffries says he would support bringing deported DACA recipients back to the U.S. and providing remedial assistance to those treated unfairly.
“There will be clashes,” said one Democratic strategist.
The former president tells People that he could not have served another term after all.
After a federal regulator allowed wagering on stocks and cryptocurrencies, two powerful trading clearinghouses filed lawsuits saying traders would not be properly protected.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.