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New details from the weeks leading up to the campaign show how President Trump’s alignment with Benjamin Netanyahu and a lack of sustained opposition from his inner circle put the United States on a course to war.
On his Facebook page, Adam van Koeverden accused the IOC’s defenders of channelling ‘stupid conservative pseudo fantasies.’
This year's midterm elections aren't just about who wins in November; they're about who wins fights over gerrymandering taking place right now.
More than a month after promising to intervene, President Donald Trump has yet to endorse a candidate in Texas' high-stakes Republican Senate runoff, deepening the divide between Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton, The Texas Tribune …
Some Republican lawmakers are pressuring President Donald Trump to end the Iran war before congressional approval is required.
Republicans won in 2024 by promising to cut the cost of living, but high gas prices are frustrating voters and providing a potent line of attack ahead of this year’s elections.
When asked whether he shared Trump’s view that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran carried divine backing, the vice president declined to go as far.
Sean Duffy is partnering with the industries he regulates in new ways.
Éric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois (1978) vividly recreates the imaginative world in which the people of the Middle Ages lived inside their heads.
President Trump may lack constitutional authority to summon Congress back to Washington despite the nearly two-month DHS funding shutdown impasse.
The influential right-wing podcaster spent four months in prison for defying a subpoena from the House panel investigating the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday called on lawmakers to remove President Donald Trump from office under the 25th Amendment after his threat that a "whole civilization will die tonight" if Iran doesn't meet his deadline...
President Trump, his administration and G.O.P. lawmakers have claimed widespread issues with mailed ballots and fraudulent voting, but the evidence doesn’t support them.
In the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization's board of directors. For weeks, they'd been having furtive discussions about whether Sam Altman, OpenAI's C.E.O., and Gre…
The defense secretary’s rosy portrayal of U.S. success in the conflict risks misinforming the public and the president, observers worry.
President Donald Trump warned that a "civilization will die tonight" as his threats of strikes on Iranian power plants and bridges loomed ahead of Tuesday's deadline.
President Trump has told Iran it must open the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m. Tuesday or face the consequences, although he has delayed previous deadlines.
President Trump issues a fresh ultimatum to Iran, threatening strikes on infrastructure unless all vessels can transit the Strait of Hormuz freely.
An autistic writer tries to make sense of his passion for trains, maps, and timetables.
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New polling shows the Democratic Party's favorability hitting historic lows, with only 28% of Americans viewing Democrats positively ahead of midterms.
American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped in Baghdad last week, was released, an Iraqi official with direct knowledge of the situation said Tuesday.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is running for California governor as a Republican, tried to review ballots despite election officials reaffirming the results.
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Democratic Rep. Ansari, daughter of Iranian immigrants, moves to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for alleged war crimes in the Iran conflict.
A group of Democrat U.S. senators on Tuesday pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on whether enormous tankers that ship liquefied natural gas qualify for a lucrative tax credit meant for smaller boats that burn the fuel.
U.S. imports from China have shrunk drastically. But billions of dollars of the change appear to be the result of accounting gimmicks and outright fraud.
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Trump praised Viktor Orban at a Budapest campaign rally via phone as JD Vance urged thousands of Hungarian supporters to reelect the prime minister.
Trump has options to end the war with Iran, but they all come with serious liabilities.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Even TMZ is channeling the national discontent.
How many times can a coalition crack before it shatters?
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 president has boasted about cutting prices of drugs, housing, food and gasoline. It's grossly exaggerated nonsense
As one of seven Republicans vying to become South Carolina's next governor, Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., told Newsmax on Tuesday that the GOP primary race "looks very good for me.
The president probably hasn't read Thucydides, but he can still see when it's time to cut losses.
The conversation celebrated a small, but significant, step in an ambitious plan for missions to the moon and Mars that Mr. Trump had set early in his first term.
At least one Republican senator has expressed concern about President Donald Trump's threat to strike Iran's civilian infrastructure.
Israel and the United States have already done much to dismantle the Axis of Resistance, but the broader network supported by Iran remains most active in Western Europe.
The president offered a new rationale for the costly, unpopular conflict: “God wants to see people taken care of,” he said.
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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…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed Tucker Carlson for comments concerning the Iran war, saying Carlson "has absolutely no idea what's going on."
The hard Left has once again allied itself with Islamists in the belief that they will help achieve its goals, hence repeating the mistake the communists made in 1979, in revolutionary Iran.
Clay Fuller, a Republican allied with President Trump, will face Shawn Harris, a Democrat, in the election to fill the remainder of Ms. Greene’s term after her resignation from Congress.
American foreign policy has often drawn a line between military action and diplomacy. Can Trump walk that line?
Three Flemish universities are about to convey the sanction of university-recognised expertise to a deeply dishonest and fraudulent individual.
The state’s high court, which liberals will control either way, could take up cases on abortion, redistricting and election disputes in coming years.
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.
"They are not going to have a nuclear weapon ... We're never going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon." So spoke President Donald Trump at a Monday presser after it was revealed that the United States military had rescued two downed American soldie…
Voting rights advocates, the Democratic Party, and state attorneys general are fighting President Trump's midterms-timed attacks on American voters.
Iran's new supreme leader reportedly is unable to run the country because he's incapacitated and receiving medical treatment.
U.S. forces launched more than 90 “restrikes” on Kharg Island, Iran’s oil export hub, early on Tuesday but have avoided hitting oil infrastructure.
U.S. strikes on Iran's Kharg Island do not represent a change in American strategy, Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday as a U.S. official separately told Reuters the additional strikes on military targets did not impact oil infrastructure.
Vice President JD Vance accuses Iran of "economic terrorism" and outlines two pathways for the regime as Trump's Strait of Hormuz deadline looms within hours.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
After Pam Bondi’s ouster, other top administration officials could be in jeopardy.
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…
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.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties in Arizona have been locked in a legal battle with a chapter of the group “No Labels” as it tries to rechristen itself.
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In a series of Situation Room meetings, President Trump weighed his instincts against the deep concerns of his vice president and a pessimistic intelligence assessment. Here’s the inside story of how he made the fateful decision.
In recent weeks, Democrats have been debating a key question: how big should their tent be? One of the big takeaways from their 2024 defeat was that they had struggled to connect with young male voters. As part of this, they had likely hurt themse…
Reflections on the crisis of meaning afflicting not only Gen Z but all of us who are too online.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for President Donald Trump's removal via the 25th Amendment after his Truth Social post threatening Iran's civilization.
Conservatives are criticizing influencers for going too far.
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A dearth of information has been disclosed about the agreements, fueling speculation that the “America First” approach to foreign aid is exploitative.
The vice president traveled to Budapest as Trump’s deadline for an Iran deal loomed Tuesday, backing the administration’s closest ideological ally in Europe.
Trump wants industrial-size immigration jails, and money is no obstacle.
Relatives of slain terror leader Qasem Soleimani were living in the U.S. with green cards and arrested shortly after DHS exposed major national security vetting failures.
As deadlines approach in the next two weeks, neither is going quite according to the partisan plan.
Utah state Rep. Karianne Lisonbee is gaining significant momentum in her primary challenge for Congress, securing endorsements from 37 fellow House Republicans in a show of conservative unity and growing frustration with incumbent Rep. Blake Moore…
In a new book, US District Court Judge Roy Altman traces Jews’ indigenous presence in the holy land over the last 3,231 years.
Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse the cuts.
Democrats can rebrand candidates, but they cannot hide a long record of condescension toward the very working-class voters they now need to win back.
His address raised more questions than it answered about the war in Iran.
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…
An English professor burns the midnight oil talking to Microsoft Copilot about Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and a play he’s been working on—and comes away deeply impressed by its literary insights.
The Bondi massacre is a warning that Australia’s failure to demand integration from recent immigrants may be leading it down a dark path. Israel shows that multiculturalism can work, but only in a nation with a strong sense of identity.
An ally of J. D. Vance who has dabbled in monarchism is now working for Viktor Orbán.
The heartbreak of hoping for a democratic Iran
The structural case for why collectivist systems fail.
President Trump also asserted that God supports the American war against Iran “because God is good, and God wants to see people taken care of.”
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.
Rep. John Larson mounted a long-shot bid to impeach Trump, citing the president's military intervention in Venezuela as he faces younger primary challengers.
President Donald Trump sparked global concern Tuesday with a dramatic post on his social media platform, Truth Social, warning of a potential catastrophic turning point involving Iran and setting a striking deadline of 8 p.m.In the post, Trump wro…
The Justice Department had asked the Supreme Court to allow it to proceed with dismissing the contempt case against Steve Bannon, a former Trump advisor and longtime ally.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for banning cousin marriages in his state, rebuking the practice at a Tampa signing ceremony for a new state law.
Iona Italia talks to Roya Hakakian about her book ‘Assassins of the Turquoise Palace’ and the past and present crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Immigration officers are making arrests in sensitive locations, including family court.
In the wake of President Donald Trump's obscene and vile Easter-weekend posts on social media, two questions come to mind: Are any senior U.S. military officers preparing to resist unlawful orders?