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A judge who blocked the Trump administration from transferring former death row inmates said the criminals were convicted of "some of the most horrific crimes imaginable."
Why prosperity breeds guilt, how status incentives reward critique, and what happens when function is replaced by moral performance.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that public debt will eclipse 120 percent of GDP within a decade.
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.
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A federal judge blocked the Pentagon from punishing Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., over a controversial video, ruling his First Amendment rights were violated.
The debate over whether federal agents should be allowed to cover their faces with masks has become a flashpoint as the government heads for a partial shutdown.
Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers warn Taiwan's political gridlock over defense spending could undermine deterrence as China escalates military pressure.
Now come negotiations over the administration’s immigration crackdown.
Some election experts warn it could portend attempts to muddle future election results.
Karrin Taylor Robson is dropping out of the race for Arizona governor.
Gail Slater — an antitrust attorney who vowed to resist political interference at her confirmation hearing — announced her departure on social media.
A handful of House Republicans bucked leadership to oppose the administration’s tariff policy, but GOP senators still fear speaking out on Epstein connections.
A federal judge upheld temporary protected status for Haitian immigrants in the United States and quoted death threats she's received, during a Thursday hearing.
Another mass shooting, and another devastated community.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins told Newsmax on Thursday he is slashing bloated contracts and reclaiming misused land at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center to refocus the sprawling campus on its core mission — serving America's veterans.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv had sought to back U.S. peace proposals to end the war with Russia as President Donald Trump seeks to resolve the conflict before November mid-term elections.Zelenskyy, in an interview published by…
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticizes former President Barack Obama for opposing voter ID laws after House passes SAVE Act.
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.
Republicans are worried about the midterm elections, but the president doesn’t seem to be.
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…
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 attorney general lobbed insults when lawmakers questioned her decisions and portrayed the Justice Department as unfairly maligned by Democrats and Trump critics.
Some state election officials say they no longer trust their federal partners.
Health insurers and providers are using industrial loan companies and other tactics to make money from financial engineering rather than patient care.
When can an influencer opt out of the news cycle?
Last-minute announcements and abrupt changes by the Trump administration have caused confusion in an already strained U.S. aviation system.
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.
So here's the question: Why should the country have to wait until the 2032 election for this census to be completed?
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz demanded Thursday that the federal government "pay for what they broke" during Operation Metro Surge, an immigration enforcement effort that triggered widespread protests in Minneapolis.
New York politicians defiantly raised a rainbow flag Thursday at the Stonewall National Monument amid a boisterous, cheering crowd, rebuking the Trump administration for removing the well-known symbol of pride from the historic LGBTQ+ landmark."We…
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Donald T. Kinsella was chosen by judges to lead the federal prosecutors’ office in Albany, then fired hours later via an email from the White House.
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
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.
Trump’s immigration crackdown has Latinos wondering if they belong in his America.
The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”
The military base at Al-Tanf had hosted U.S. troops fighting against the Islamic State since 2016. Some of the troops are expected to be repositioned at a Jordanian military base across the border.
A new book catalogues the damage to Canadian society caused by a 2021 social panic over non-existent ‘unmarked graves.’
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Millions more Americans may get sick because the FDA won’t let them access the most effective flu vaccine.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
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.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg orders Trump administration to bring back 137 deported migrants at taxpayers' expense after ruling they were denied due process rights.
The original SAVE Act was an indefensible step backward, and the revised version is worse. It passed the Republican-led House anyway.
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.
Some 3,000 agents took part in the federal operation that started late last year around the Twin Cities. On Thursday, officials said the surge would wind down.
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…
A lapse in funding probably won’t bring immigration enforcement operations to a screeching halt, but the department is also home to other agencies, including the Coast Guard and FEMA.
Conservatives are split over whether Virginia Democrats' aggressive gerrymander is an abomination to be condemned or an example red states should follow.
Radley Metzger’s 1975 hardcore adaptation of a celebrated literary hoax is a vast improvement on the cynical source material.
The Trump administration intends to appeal the ruling, which says the retired Navy officer’s right to free speech was under attack.
Republican senators face pressure to accelerate Trump judicial nominees as midterms approach, with nearly two dozen district court vacancies in red states.
Lillian, a senior at the University of Virginia, is taking a step that has scandalized her parents, peers, and professors.
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.
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley introduced legislation to break up seven out of the Fortune 20, all of which are vertically integrated health care monsters. It's about time.
A Texas ballot harvesting law was upheld by a federal appeals court after the 5th Circuit reversed a lower court ruling that blocked the 2021 election measure.
Sen. Ted Cruz introduced the Payment Integrity Act after the alleged $9 billion childcare fraud in Minnesota. New rules require proof of care before federal payments are made.
The agency is seeking Chinese officials who are frustrated with corruption in the People’s Liberation Army.
I see overhyping everywhere in the AI debate.
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Meanwhile, The Washington Post runs cover for the Georgia county's 'extremely sloppy' election administration in 2020.
Politician Dallas Brodie explains why her province continues to promote dubious social-justice policies and myths—including the false claim that 215 dead Indigenous children were discovered four years ago in ‘unmarked graves.’
Fixing New York’s affordable housing isn’t as simple as going after bad landlords.
Democrats on Thursday said they see opportunity to press for their priorities in DHS talks and more as GOP House teeters on a razor-thin margin.
It appears that people now find comfort in the idea that the life of even the greatest of writers is no more satisfying than their own.
The United States has passed Japan in steel production primarily because Japan is making a lot less steel than it used to, not because America is making more.
The president could veto the measure if it reaches his desk, but the action underscores some Republican frustrations with his trade policies.
As co-founder and longtime president, he helped turn the Cato Institute into one of the Beltway’s largest and most influential think tanks.
Trump had initially excluded Democrats from the traditionally bipartisan meeting. However, not all Democrats were invited to a separate dinner.
The potential 2028 presidential candidates will sound off on a range of burgeoning crises as European leaders recoil at America’s populist politics.
The producer of "Melania" says any allegation that the documentary breached a composer agreement is a "blatant lie."
Trump’s team wants a reset on its mass-deportation goals, not a retreat.
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Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's point man on deportations and border security, on Thursday touted what he described as significant public safety gains from Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, pushing back on critics as the effort winds down.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked about the timetable for the tariff case before the Supreme Court.
A press freedom group accused a prosecutor of violating an ethics rule by not telling a judge about a law limiting searches for journalistic work product.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., charged that Senate Democrats weren't interested in a solution to the DHS but rather wanted to turn it into a political flashpoint.
The search continues in the documents for ironclad criminal conduct, but the story of a sexual predator given a free ride by the ruling class has already emerged.
Large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security are set to shut down Saturday unless lawmakers and the White House strike a last-minute deal.
Gov. Tim Walz is demanding the federal government “pay for what they broke" after the Tom Homan announced it would draw down its immigration enforcement presence in Minnesota.
Senate Democrats refused to move ahead with a spending bill needed to keep the Department of Homeland Security running because it lacked limits they have demanded on federal immigration agents.
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.
A confidential Government Accountability Office report obtained by Racket News reporter Ryan Lovelace and published Thursday reveals the FBI conducted more than 1,000 "assessments" targeting religious organizations, journalists, public officials, …
Progressives have been winning more intra-Democratic fights than they’ve lost of late.
The activist’s assassination unleashed anti-Semitism that is pulling the Trump coalition apart.
They say they want to save democracy. First they’ll need to get out of their own way.
Good riddance to the now-former member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission.
For the first time since Fidel Castro's coup in 1959, the end of the Left's rule in the southern Western Hemisphere is underway.
If you spend any time doomscrolling on social media, you might be excused for thinking we no longer have common commitments. After all, if we can no longer make a difference in a shared civic project, why even try?
Sen. Josh Hawley accuses Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison of helping fraudsters in the Feeding Our Future case and accepting $10,000 in donations.
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…
Your academic credentials don’t help you when your argument is absurd.
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Eileen Mihich obtained a phony prescription pad and wrote herself a poison script. And it was filled.
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.
A little over four months before Democratic primary voters in New York's 12th District, Midtown Manhattan, select the near-certain successor to retiring Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, signs are strong that distinction will go to Jack Schlossberg.
The federal judge's preliminary injunction means the defense secretary can't censure the senator or reduce his military rank and pension.
Because of the volatile nature of his three main businesses, there are stark surges and plunges.
A whistle-blower has accused Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, of blocking distribution of a report that Jared Kushner’s name came up in an intercepted communication about Iran.
The ruling was one of the most robust steps taken so far to force the Trump administration to give due process to the Venezuelan immigrants deported under the Alien Enemies Act.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The sustainable agriculture movement’s ideological opposition to biotechnology undermines genuine environmental progress and food security.
Karrin Taylor Robson, a wealthy businesswoman, dropped out after trailing in polls to Representative Andy Biggs, who is more aligned with supporters of President Trump.
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy told senators Thursday that the FAA and the Pentagon have a long-running pattern of miscommunication, pointing to this week's abrupt El Paso airspace shutdown and reversal as the latest f…
President Donald Trump said Israeli President Isaac Herzog should be "ashamed of himself" for not giving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a pardon on corruption charges.
Americans who may have ferocious disagreements about the size of government, foreign policy, and a wide range of other issues must find a way to unite around their shared commitment to the liberal idea.
Residents and activists in Los Angeles' Highland Park neighborhood are pushing ahead with a plan to install warning sirens to alert the area when federal immigration agents are spotted.