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Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
A legal alien from Afghanistan was deported last month in the first-ever Alien Terrorist Removal Court case.
The long-running CBS News program returned for a high-pressure 59th season on Sunday. With new correspondents and a refreshed stopwatch, it was more tweak than overhaul.
Bo French, a GOP candidate for Texas Railroad commissioner, posted a photo of students celebrating a football win and said it showed “how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners.”
How can my children #NeverForget something impossible for them to remember?
Films don’t owe us the accuracy of a documentary, but greater fidelity to the historical record would have made for a better story.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
AI politics erupted to a new level in the last week.
Invent a problem, then present yourself as the solution. Is there a better business idea in the world?
The president again rejected calls to try to regulate the industry, even as some of its leaders are speaking more openly about the risks of rapidly developing artificial intelligence.
Norm Macdonald was the prophet of our cowardly post-9/11 age.
Israelis go to the polls on 27 October. After seventeen years of Netanyahu, former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot is in the lead.
One member of Congress voted no on the war on terror three days after 9/11. Rep. Barbara Lee got death threats. 25 years later, she was right.
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…
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims the Trump administration is illegally expanding a rule that allows feds to deny green card and visa applications based on welfare status.
Francis Fukuyama’s new memoir assesses an intellectual life devoted to the health of the liberal-democratic idea.
A new report on the Canada Research Chairs program analyses the reduced standards applied to scholars belonging to ‘equity groups.’
Name-calling, guilt-by-association, and other unscrupulous methods of argument are polluting our discourse.
The president and vice president are trying to rescue Senate candidates in North Carolina and Kansas, states Republicans carried two years ago.
The president has pledged direct payments to Americans several times since returning to office.
After the Trump administration blocked a new ambassador to Washington, the country expressed regret for a post from a French official social media account.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is devoting a hearing to a topic that affects millions but is poorly understood and widely ignored, including when it comes to federal research money.
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.
Several Wichita-based Bombardier employees said the post felt to them as though the president was turning his back on American workers.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told "CBS Sunday Morning" he would be open to regulation that gives control over AI to "the right combination of governments," during an interview about his new essay titled: "We Must Pace the Frontier"
Congressional Republicans plan to bypass the Senate filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act's voter ID and proof of citizenship rules via reconciliation.
Democratic Socialists of America launched its "Workers Deserve More" program calling for public ownership, a 32-hour workweek and universal healthcare.
President Donald Trump rejected calls for AI guardrails and singled out Dario Amodei, as David Sacks challenged the industry's push to pace the frontier.
Analysis of James Talarico's 2026 Texas campaign doubts and GOP challenges.
The AI Apocalypse scare campaign looks suspiciously like the climate hoax.
As is so often the case in the left’s lawfare operations, the process is the punishment.
Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed falsely claimed in a 2012 essay that an Iraqi refugee in California was brutally murdered in an anti-Muslim attack because she had the
The policy would give immigration officers wide authority to deny green cards to people using public benefits.
House Speaker Mike Johnson warned on Sunday of competitive risks from China, and Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader, said Congress should start regulatory talks this week.
Aaron Rupar faces White House backlash after attacking a female press wrangler in a C-SPAN clip from President Trump's Ireland departure.
A group of unapologetic economic populists are defying the conventional wisdom that only moderates can succeed in swing seats.
James Talarico, the Democratic Texas Senate candidate, once called parents' refusal to acknowledge a child's gender identity "abusive" behavior.
Given all the economic data, raising interest rates is the only correct decision.
Reflections on a morning that changed the world as we knew it.
A community that embraces a set of shared beliefs is not necessarily a bad thing, but the value of solidarity depends entirely on the merits of the cause in question.
Muslim voters at an ISNA conference say they plan to back Abdul El-Sayed despite opposing his abortion and LGBTQ stances, citing Trump betrayals.
UNC is evaluating all of its relationships with Chinese universities to discern which others may also be concerning.
English departments are increasingly ignoring the great works of the past, in favour of popular literary works that reflect activist themes and nonliterary works of political and social theory.
Persistent distractions are feeding a climate of mistrust as the U.S. military faces a series of wartime issues, including shortfalls of missile interceptors.
Politics of the Day
The ruling by a lower court judge was another blow to President Trump’s effort to make voting by mail harder. The Supreme Court is also considering the Trump plan.
Scott Banister's $40 million funds Make Liberty Win's push to counter Democratic Socialists of America in state legislature races across nine states.
A federal judge ruled DHS unlawfully seized the Federal Emergency Management Agency's authority over staffing and pushed thousands of job cuts.
Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed led a 2007 University of Michigan protest against ex-terrorists who discussed converting to Christianity.
The ‘dead mall’ may not be a permanent blight on the suburban landscape after all.
Progressive politicians such as Zohran Mamdani offer answers to the bitter post-9/11 legacy of failures at home and abroad, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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.
John Brennan faces a grand jury subpoena in a Justice Department probe into whether officials conspired to deprive Trump of his civil rights.
The Kentucky Republican has not returned to the chamber since he suffered a fall three months ago.
Still, after widespread criticism of Paxton’s lackluster and lackadaisical fundraising, at least somebody is putting in some effort.
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 coroner said the unvaccinated 40-year-old woman exhibited many common symptoms of measles, such as a fever, cough, white spots inside the mouth and a rash.
Many Americans who live in suburbs and rural areas don't like the big, left-leaning metropolitan areas nearby.
Every few decades, the ideas with the worst track records come back into style.
Democrats are increasingly attacking the administration’s hands-off approach to artificial intelligence regulation as midterms approach.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Former Maine governor Paul LePage is seen as the likely winner against progressive Matt Dunlap in the race for retiring Rep. Jared Golden’s seat.
Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.
Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska has shown quiet support for President Trump’s tariffs. His brother, the head of their family business, has described the economic volatility as an enormous challenge.
Vice President JD Vance is beginning a key final stretch of midterm campaigning by dropping in on the Senate race in Kansas, where Republicans were long seen as heavily favored.
The number of election-related lawsuits is exploding — and the courts are still resolving them just weeks before the elections.
There is a suspicion that Morocco is not too unhappy with this state of affairs.
The Constitution makes states and Congress supreme in regulating elections. The president cannot usurp that power on the pretext of overseeing the Postal Service.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked the United States for more U.S. military help last week after the Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen launched a broad offensive.
Differences in height between men and women—a biomarker of stressor exposure in childhood—suggest that poor early health and nutrition constrain what children are achieving at school.
The Midwestern fast food chain praised the Ohio Republican as a champion of the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement.
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It is having a direct impact on the kind of public policy coming out of the nation’s legislative bodies.
Sex is declining because the options seem endless. This is counter-intuitive, but biologically it makes sense.
The president doubled down on his idea to pay Americans if the GOP keeps control of Congress in November. But the House speaker was more circumspect.
9/11 was a powerful demonstration that notions of happy universalism were bunkum.
New Jersey has a fraud problem. And not just in its voter rolls.
President Donald Trump said the White House looked like a "dump" before his renovations, saying the exterior skin was "practically falling off."