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The administration will work with a private Venezuelan oil company that has close ties to the country’s government.
Jeff Crank's House resolution condemning socialism cites Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral win and the DSA's growing political momentum nationwide.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Our contemporary categories too often simplify and even estrange us from our political inheritance, and from moral and political reality.
The high court could decide to hear the case in the term that begins in October.
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The Justice Department sent observers during the state’s primary election this month. A local official said the activities exceeded their authority.
Derek Thompson on the antisocial century
Treat a warming planet as an engineering problem rather than a moral failing, and it starts to look solvable.
Gabriel Perez had access to the president’s speeches before they were delivered and was accused of placing unlawful wagers on words that would be spoken.
Candidates’ attacks are focused on illegal immigration, faith and stock trading.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Their videos have proliferated on social media, but the payments are frequently hidden from viewers.
In his Jackson Hole speech, the Fed chair did everything but say it out loud.
The U.S.-Canada trade war has galvanized Canadians behind their prime minister’s decision to walk away from negotiations. What happens when the time comes for talks to restart?
Officials at the country's top financial institution regularly debate the effect of artificial intelligence on the U.S. economy.
In cities where everything seems to take forever to build, literally covering over these sites of everyday urban friction has become a powerfully visible form of political currency.
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.
The automated license plate readers aren’t popular with the public. Politicians are catching on.
Republicans need to give their voters a rationale for voting the straight ticket.
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.
Rebecca Cooke's financial disclosure reveals she was compensated by two organizations with direct ties to George Soros' Open Society Foundation.
Pastor Lorenzo Sewell warns that Abdul El-Sayed could recommend federal judges aligned with Sharia law if elected to the Michigan Senate seat.
In today’s Martin Center article, Christopher Schilling explains that, though North Carolina “requires Holocaust education for public school students,” there is no such requirement for…
The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison.
Given the economic pressures on the regime, something has to give.
The president said an agreement between the countries covered more than 65 billion barrels of reserves. A U.S. official said it would involve a partnership with a private company.
Bobby Pulido defended Gerardo Ortiz's graphic music video depicting sexual violence, adding to controversies as he challenges Monica De La Cruz.
The Democratic Senate candidate said he regretted comments in which he linked the synagogue attack to a broader cycle of violence. "You don’t ever want to trample somebody’s pain," he said.
Beth Macy is challenging Rep. Ben Cline in a bright-red Virginia district, hoping her own story and the stories she told about the region will win back rural and working-class White voters.
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…
The knowledge and infrastructure needed to engineer a pandemic pathogen, once confined to a handful of elite military and civilian research institutions, are quietly becoming more accessible.
David Maywald on the female wage premium, the rites of passage boys no longer have, and why the science on sex differences keeps losing to ideology.
With one swift act, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement makes the country a better place.
The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
A scandalously anti-science editorial from the world’s leading science journal.
The courts are not going to save us. We’ll have to do this work politically.
Seneca Nation's leader calls Trump's Lake Ontario to Lake America renaming "unpresidential," saying it violates the 1794 Canandaigua treaty.
The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists.
Lancaster County Commissioner Joshua Parsons accused Gov. Josh Shapiro of deception over measles-related deaths, saying the coroner has no record of them.
What rules should govern our online digital lives? What rights do we have as digital citizens? The Meta settlement raises more questions than it answers.
Trump recycled a ranking reflecting midcentury liberal preferences just so he could call himself the ‘greatest.’
Senator Jon Ossoff, the youngest sitting senator and the only Democrat seeking re-election this year in a state President Trump won in 2024, hasn’t moderated his message in his critical race.
A new exhibition curated by Lars von Trier provides a fascinating look at who and what has influenced one of the world’s most prodigiously gifted and provocative filmmakers.
Minnesota wants Texas to turn over an officer charged with shooting an immigrant. Such extraditions are usually routine, but in this case politics loom large.
President Donald Trump said he will be at the Pentagon. A White House official said Vice President JD Vance will travel to New York for the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The Trump administration is touting the oil deal with Venezuela as a way to lower gasoline prices, which have been elevated since the Iran war broke out.
Increasingly, sociologists are expected to avoid research questions and theories that involve the role of culture in shaping societal inequalities.
A county coroner said that the pathologist who examined a newborn who tested positive for measles did not believe the virus played a role in the baby’s death.
An executive order to rename Lake Ontario is a bandage on a wounded ego, not the power move Trump seems to think it is.
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Our reporter reflects on her months at the memorial, as it turned blue, then green, then peeling, amid the dead ducks and gawkers and National Guard.
A thrash-metal classic turns forty.
The legal fight over the controversial measure is expected to continue.
Mr. Yiannopoulos, an early supporter of President Trump and vocal supporter of mass deportations, was himself sent back to his home country, part of a long fall from right-wing grace.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, faced criticism from Jewish Democrats after remarking, “hurt people hurt people.”
Biden branded Georgia's election law "Jim Crow," and now the state's redistricting maps face a tougher legal test after the Supreme Court's Callais ruling.
Olive Branch, Mississippi, Mayor Ken Adams argued against lowering the flag to half-staff for Dolly Parton, saying the honor should be reserved.
Mr. El-Sayed has called Mr. Rogers a "coward." At the convention after our interview, Mr. Rogers calls the Democrat "con man Abdul."
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…
Abdul El-Sayed dodged four reporter questions about Hasan Piker at Michigan's Democratic convention, dismissing the streamer as irrelevant to his race.
One prominent Texas Republican predicts disaster at the polls if his party doesn't take a harder stand against data centers.
This move by the U.S. State and Treasury Departments is the first sign they understand how to address the unique challenge of far-left terrorism.
Here’s what happened under President Donald Trump and his administration this week that you may have missed.
Another pointless foot-stamping gesture from a president incompetently locked into several simultaneous tire fires of his own making.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
A U.S. official told CBS News that interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez granted a private joint venture a 100-year concession to operate in oil fields that make up 65 billion barrels of petroleum.
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.
The court rejected Trump’s third attempt to move the case to federal court, where the president believes he would benefit from broader protection from prosecution.
Until the Democratic Party moderates, the effort is unlikely to succeed.
Ed Martin is finishing up as pardon attorney next week. Under his guidance, President Trump has pardoned hundreds of victims of the Biden administration's weaponization of the justice system against Trump and anyone who supported him.
Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs explains how so-called third-country deportations are sending immigrants to countries across the globe.
To win in 2024, the president promised an economic course correction. Almost two years later, his agenda has made that fight even harder.
They don’t make a dime, wreck their car, and end up in jail.
This was an entirely fake controversy, and Burnham’s reputation has been unjustly tarred.
The ruling was a win for Stanford’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, and it followed another court victory for students targeted by the Trump administration last year.
March on Washington activists called to abolish the Senate and rewrite the Constitution while pushing Zohran Mamdani-style socialist policies.
We should worry about the perverse incentives created by elevating a self-killer and punishing his enemies.