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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…
Former Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg tells Claire Lehmann why he believes Bondi was preventable, and what Australia needs on antisemitism, tax and economic reform
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.
Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor joined forces after prosecutors charged a deported man despite ordering him to stay in Oklahoma after his first conviction.
Bill Clinton heads to Florida to campaign for David Jolly while Hillary Clinton launches "High Stakes" podcast with Kara Swisher for midterms.
The lawsuit seeks to temporarily block the state from counting mail ballots of voters it claims are likely noncitizens, opening a new front in the administration’s legal fights with election officials.
As AI begins to make serious inroads on jobs, it's far from an idle question.
Elizabeth Warren's warning about the $45 billion McCormick-Unilever merger sparked online mockery, with users joking about "Big Condiment" prices.
On this full episode of LARRY, Larry O’Connor breaks down explosive new reporting from The Wall Street Journal that federal investigators are building a case that could strip Rep. Ilhan Omar of her U.S. citizenship and lead to deportation. Jesse W…
Analysis of Democrats' peak and 2026 midterm election outlook with Republican strategies.
Katie Zacharia's maiden briefing was excruciating - at least her predecessor had delivered her propaganda hot
Navi Pillay’s appalling treatment of Hamas’s sexual violence provides ample reason to deny her any prestigious honours. But she is also dangerous to the very international legal system that she pretends to uphold.
My assertion that Katie Zacharia is ‘unquestionably’ a lawyer is, as the old Watergate phrase had it, ‘no longer operative.’
The lawsuit also suggests that a motivating factor for the dismissals was the intense scrutiny of the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, after he went to the Olympics in Milan.
The backlash to the plan was salutary.
The effort's biggest cuts were to the civil service-and they worked.
Texas pro-lifers should not be impressed by the weak rhetorical olive branch that James Talarico extended to Jodi Hunt and other pro-life Texans.
Two centuries before the claimed discovery of non-existent ‘unmarked graves’ in British Columbia, a wave of bestselling ‘convent exposés’ purported to detail mass rape and child murder among priests and nuns.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
In a town hall, the Texas Senate candidate, who manipulates religious faith for political purposes as a matter of course, got challenged and schooled.
Senior Capitol Hill staff were warned about suspicious letters containing unknown substances mailed to multiple congressional offices and elecion offices nationwide.
Ancient DNA has given historians a new archive, and in two decades it has settled long-running arguments about who migrated, who conquered, and who replaced whom.
So, not Somali-American anymore, just Somali?
As long as states have licensing laws, those states should prevent accreditors from demanding that schools embrace their ideology.
Trump called Abdul El-Sayed "100% Muslim Brotherhood" as posts by the battleground Senate candidate's half-sister come under fresh scrutiny.
AI veteran Jerry Kaplan tells Claire Lehmann why he thinks the doomers are wrong, what the rogue-agent incidents did and didn’t show, and where real risks lie.
The White House Council of Economic Advisers estimates each illegal immigrant costs taxpayers $166,716 over their lifetime in a bombshell report.
Minneapolis Somali community members say they feel personally attacked after federal agents raided Rep. Ilhan Omar's D.C. home in a citizenship probe.
A wonderful new book by Stephen Wade, America’s greatest living folklorist, chronicles the history of the country’s folk music.
Congress could take one specific action to address complaints about the program.
Alonzo Lunsford, shot seven times by Nidal Hasan, called Trump's decision to cancel the firing squad livestream a "positive move" for the nation.
From 2011 to 2013, White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia worked for a powerful Beijing law firm with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
The right wing is scrambling for wins in the elections as Democrats lead in the polls.
A retired general, a Catholic archbishop for the military and one of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s victims were among those who had spoken out.
Do Europeans fully grasp what the fall of Ukraine would mean for the rest of the continent?
A look back at the heyday of cinema’s lurid Nazisploitation subgenre, from ‘Ilsa’ to ‘The Night Porter.’
Grand Slam champions take home identical prizes, but the men must win 50 percent more sets to get there.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The move will force a vote on the agreement after the midterm elections, though it faces steep odds in the Republican-controlled Congress even amid bipartisan concern about the deal.
The banks also restricted financing for disfavored industries such as firearms makers and retailers, Arctic oil and gas, coal, detention facilities, tobacco and e-cigarettes.
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The daughter of the president’s chief of staff joined an American businessman in Republika Srpska as he explored a gas pipeline. And six current and former campaign advisers recently traveled there for an election.
Voting rights groups sued the Texas Department of Public Safety and the secretary of state over delayed voter registrations that overwhelmed local election workers.
Donald Trump started his second term in office with a plan: Project 2025.
Essays in the New Yorker, the NYRB, and the Atlantic make one worry about the kind of nation they might urge the United States to become.
Decreased school attendance may hurt some districts temporarily, but it ultimately helps state budgets.
Tim Mynett was spotted at the couple's D.C. home as HSI's fraud investigation into Ilhan Omar's immigration paperwork intensifies with new subpoenas.
If El-Sayed can’t say the right words, maybe the rest of the party will be smart enough to inoculate itself against the political pathogen he’s set on spreading.
Republican House member Rep. Andy Harris called an audience member "rude" after she laughed during his remarks on diesel prices during a debate.
The question of Katie Zacharia’s credentials.
Jewish voters are torn between their often lifelong support for the Democratic Party and their deep concerns about El-Sayed's rhetoric.
The party’s top super PAC for House candidates said it had raised more this summer than ever before in a third quarter, but acknowledged the challenges Republicans are facing.
Any expanded domestic production must be sustained by permanently higher prices.
Just a few weeks from the end of the 2026 midterm elections, there are all sorts of variables that could affect the outcome on the margins. There remain many races for House, Senate and governorships that are very close. Polling errors could be pa…
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 amount is the most that a Senate candidate has ever raised during that period, his campaign said, eclipsing his opponent in Texas, Ken Paxton.
‘Price stability’ is still nowhere in sight.
Despite her professed atheism, Kathryn Paige Harden insists on making quasi-religious claims about free will and moral responsibility.
Election officials say they worry the administration could use its own unsubstantiated claims to contest the vote in November.
The last month alone has treated a weary American public to stories of shady dealings that would put any dark, smoke-filled back room to shame.
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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…
Despite hopes for a blue wave, Democratic candidates in Minnesota, Maine and Michigan are facing local political headwinds and have struggled to open up clear daylight in the polls.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said that nine of the nation's largest banks, as measured by assets, had policies in place between 2020 and 2025 that may have influenced their decisions to "deny or limit access to financial ser…
I'm a neuropsychologist and I'm here to tell you: The number of parents seeking test accommodations for their kids is out of control. And private schools are largely to blame, writes Katie Davis.