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Republicans are trailing in eight of the major battleground Senate races, just two months out from Election Day, the RealClearPolitics aggregate of polling shows.
Vice President JD Vance also told Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, to “keep my wife’s name out of your mouth.”
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.
Where next with this darkness?
Developing the country's vast oil reserves will require significant investment and infrastructure work-and officials have provided no public timeline.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
We're finally getting some answers on institutional investors and daycare.
The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
An important new book by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), "Going Further," calls attention anew to the life and career of the single greatest living American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who has targeted truckers in the country illegally, said the schools certified drivers later found to lack proficiency.
He’s sorry if you misinterpreted remarks he shouldn’t have to apologize for at all. He’s sorry if you’re hung up on the anti-American ‘streamer’ he campaigned with.
The supposed sage of the Democratic Party’s moderate middle has surrendered.
Questioning a state’s investigation is highly unusual for the public health agency, but reflects tensions between the Trump administration and many states over health issues.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
When you stop grading by snob appeal, the truly excellent ones shine. Plus, our new ranking of the best colleges for rural America.
As the midterm elections near, the Trump administration is appearing to ramp up its efforts to intimidate journalists and influence public opinion.
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.
Lower-court rulings would have blocked construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom after finding that the Trump administration should have first sought approval from Congress.
Kurt Schlichter exposes Washington Post's biased, inaccurate hit piece on his Pentagon role.
Hill, a fisherman, has the most realistic chance of unseating Rep. Nick Begich (R), the state Democratic Party chair said. A formal position has yet to be decided.
New Jersey is requiring big data centers to shoulder more of their own power costs, while an Indiana utility says revenue from major new customers could cut household bills by about $100 a year.
President Donald Trump warned communities rejecting data centers risk becoming "backwards and poor" as states battle over AI boom energy and water costs.
The giant computing sites that power A.I. are increasingly opposed by communities across the country, a signal of voters’ concern about a changing economy.
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.
Nicki Minaj, Grant Cardone, and Joe Gebbia will judge the SBA's Patriot Pitch as five entrepreneur finalists compete for $1 million in cash.
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.
A thrash-metal classic turns forty.
The Elections Commission will discuss the primary night 'error' at a special meeting beginning at 9 a.m. Monday morning.
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…
The trading platform Kalshi issued a three-year suspension to the candidate, Laurie Buckhout, and fined her nearly $2,600. Ms. Buckhout said she had made a “dumb mistake.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson faces a tricky week as Republicans push a socialism vote and the SAVE America Act before Members flee to campaign.
I often write that my favorite writings by Chief Justice Roberts are when he's in dissent. These are the rare...
The departure of Dan Driscoll, who at one time was viewed as a potential replacement for the defense secretary, is the latest shake-up at the Pentagon amid the Iran war.
Nine more pharmaceutical companies said they would cut the prices on some drugs through Trump’s Most Favored Nation program.
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.
The House Ethics Committee announced earlier this month that it is investigating accusations that Miller physically abused his ex-wife and daughter. Miller denies the allegations.
Treat a warming planet as an engineering problem rather than a moral failing, and it starts to look solvable.
Laurie Buckhout of North Carolina said she “bet on myself. Literally.”
Jamieson Greer meets House Republicans as Trump's escalating trade war with Canada and 50% tariffs become a growing flashpoint for lawmakers.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Clinton Foundation job listings for Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton's offices sparked conservative mockery over "intern" versus "associate" titles.
It was an odd time to propose honoring a fashion designer who once praised Hitler.
The Defense Department’s Office of Strategic Capital, founded by the Biden administration to give loans to bolster the U.S. defense industry, is helping lead President Trump’s oil deal.
The president defends the server farms as polling shows sizable shares of Americans from both political parties are opposed to them.
In their broadest assault yet against the charges, lawyers for the defendants pointed to the unusual investigative tactics the administration deployed to make the case against them.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation letter to the White House, a senior U.S. official confirms. The White House has not yet accepted his resignation.
Establishment is used as a description and even a slur for Democrats in and running for office, but it's really just misleading.
The president downplays the possibility of escalating military action against Tehran, despite recent tit-for-tat attacks.
We should worry about the perverse incentives created by elevating a self-killer and punishing his enemies.
At gathering of G20 finance ministers, the Treasury secretary accused Canada’s prime minister of starting a “political shouting match” over U.S. trade policies.
The exhibition is gone, but the Met’s moral failure remains.
The resignation of Daniel P. Driscoll, the secretary of the Army, had been expected but comes at a tumultuous time for the service.
National Trust for Historic Preservation member Alison K. Hoagland hasn’t been personally harmed in any way; she just doesn’t like the way the place looks.
There’s never a good time for exceptionally low passenger airliner flyovers, but this is a particularly bad time of year for them.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who is accused of shooting two National Guard troops in D.C., one fatally, had been refusing food and water as he awaits trial.
JD Vance fired back at Abdul El-Sayed over comments about Usha Vance, telling the Michigan Senate candidate to keep his wife's name out of his mouth.
For many Iranians, the new US sanctions campaign, called Operation Economic Outcast, seems superfluous given the grim economic situation in their country.
No, the U.S. will not be ‘topping out’ the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with Venezuelan oil ‘very shortly,’ as President Trump claimed.
House Republicans force Democrats to vote on condemning socialism and capping the Supreme Court at nine justices amid the left's inter-party civil war.
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.
Driscoll submitted his resignation after speaking with Trump about the current state of the Army, a U.S. official told MS NOW.
The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison.
Throughout the latter half of the summer, the Democrats' long-simmering debates about the future direction of their party have come to a boil. Though some are desperate to leave these debates aside and shift the focus to the November midterms, the…
Scott Brown is chasing the political limelight again with a seemingly improvised Senate campaign.
The stated justification for it is more and more self-referential.
After Warner Bros. dropped an anvil on Coyote vs. Acme, Ketchup Entertainment saved it from oblivion — and we are richer for it.
Gustavo Gordillo, NYC Democratic Socialists of America co-chair, faces scrutiny over claims about his immigrant parents, union status and housing.
Paxton’s vulnerabilities, particularly in a year of epic backlash, were simply too risky to cashier a respected incumbent.
A new report shows that defending the regulatory status quo is not the same thing as defending Head Start’s comprehensive mission.
The U.S. military said its attacks against Iran were in response to a threat to the Strait of Hormuz.
Chief Justice John Roberts warned the White House ballroom project is "likely unlawful," but the Supreme Court let construction continue for now.
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…
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The vice president appeared at a Republican Jewish Coalition summit at a time when many prominent donors and activists oppose his potential presidential bid.
Abdul El-Sayed dismissed Hasan Piker as just "a single streamer from California," despite inviting him to stump on the Michigan campaign trail.
The Chinese Communist Party cannot and will not accept that its time in the sun has passed. But the public knows.
The U.S. attack hit rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran fired back early Monday, marking the first known clash in weeks.
The decision hands President Donald Trump a political victory in his controversial bid to oversee the largest addition to the executive mansion in decades.