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The U.S. military has drafted options for three days of strikes, but in recent months the president has repeatedly vetoed plans to restart the war.
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 remarks prompted speculation the Republican leader might retire from politics if Democrats retake the chamber.
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The conservative justice told The Associated Press that being called MAGA is offensive to him. His rulings say otherwise.
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.
Under Sean Duffy, the Transportation Department has worked to roll back consumer protections. Passenger advocates say the changes favor airlines.
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, accused a GOP rival of ‘living the good life’ on donor money, but his campaign reported nearly $20K in spending around his own trips to Disney World, the UAE and Europe
Yes, animosity toward Israel from right and left poses a threat. But the nation emerged from the war stronger, richer, and more regionally integrated.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani reportedly dined at Ayat Hinds Hall, part of a Palestinian restaurant chain whose "From the River to the Sea" menu section sparked backlash.
Hutchinson was a key witness before a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The unusual move, which comes weeks before the midterm elections, has been derided by Democrats and advocates as a stunt.
To rediscover the university’s true purpose, we must return to our core practice of making distinctions.
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
The government is now 0-5 in its efforts to admit the so-called clean team confessions to the capital cases at Guantánamo Bay.
Two senators have proposed a series of modest but significant reforms of Senate rules to allow broadly bipartisan bills to move faster in that chamber.
We must fight against the oldest hatred
Patrick Industries announced a merger with its main competitor for selling components for recreational vehicles. A lawsuit alleges that it leverages market power.
It is not clear where the victims can or will go for recompense, nor that the aggressors will face justice for their depredations.
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.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Oct. 7 anniversary statement drew sharp criticism, but Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have stayed notably silent.
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Victor Marx, the GOP candidate for Colorado governor, said he was trying to teach his wife the importance of continuing self-defense training.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, will be shot to death on Dec. 3 at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 and wounded 32 in 2009.
Barack Obama's foundation employees cite rolled-back benefits and high staff turnover in their push to unionize, invoking his own pro-labor words.
Trump is in Texas tonight to stump for the Senate candidate.
Has the GOP Senate candidate’s excuse-making already begun?
In a top Senate battleground, Representative Ashley Hinson, the Republican nominee, sparred with Josh Turek, her Democratic rival, on policy issues ranging from Medicaid to term limits.
John Updike, Alice Hoffman, and the golden age of “witch lit.”
Iowa Republicans have consistently won in the Trump era. That record is at risk now.
Ancient prejudices meet opportunistic mouthpieces.
In keeping with America’s broader fiscal story, the problem is almost all about spending.
Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman’s account of the 7 October massacre and its aftermath is a triumph of dogged reporting and shrewd analysis.
Catherine Liu’s new book makes some valuable points, but it fundamentally misunderstands the trauma culture it critiques.
The president has acknowledged sometimes using public statements about negotiations and military planning to keep adversaries off guard.
Saritha Komatireddy released a 52-count faux indictment against Letitia James, accusing the New York attorney general of neglecting hate crimes and fraud.
Keffiyeh-clad activists turned on Zohran Mamdani yesterday, but he bore up under the heckling. These are his people, after all, and they’re doing the work.
The administration wants to shift science money from universities to private firms. Lawmakers and others have pushed back.
Hippocratic and pro-life medical professionals and institutions are imperiled.
Trump is trying every possible short-term trick to cut diesel prices. None of it will work; he might as well command the tide to recede.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews AI expert Gary Marcus about the possibility that a rogue artificial intelligence will turn us all into paper clips.
Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores face conspiracy to torture charges involving electric shock, asphyxiation and rape of detainees, including U.S. citizens.
The tax code is overdue for a good housecleaning.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
He cast Trump as reflecting the West’s once unapologetic belief in its own righteousness while managing to take the man out of it.
The data presents a disconnect with how many Americans are feeling about the economy less than a month from the midterms.
The negotiations had dragged on for nearly a year. Then, with just weeks left in the Biden administration, Brett McGurk joined forces with Steve Witkoff to make one last push to bring the hostages home.
The men who made the Parthenon built upwards. They held that the highest and most noble aspiration in life was to surpass all others, to strive to be the best in all things.
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.
Elon Musk is set to receive the National Medal of Science from Trump after their bitter 2025 feud over government spending and DOGE's mission.
Perhaps you CAN go broke underestimating the people
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Florida's Medicaid fraud crackdown uncovered providers billing for more than 24 hours a day, driving a nearly $1 billion drop in ABA therapy spending.
Since October 7, 2023, the concocted narrative of a ‘genocide’ in Gaza has catalyzed the activist left.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin responds to Robert Lynch's essay on masturbation.
President Donald Trump slammed Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas for not becoming a Republican after receiving a presidential pardon.
Bernadette Greene-Placentia was fixing campaign signs in Sun City, Arizona, in August when two men attacked her from behind, she said.
As the former UBC professor exacts apologies and legal settlements from his accusers, Brad Cran offers a personal account of the collateral damage that the decade-long saga inflicted on the Canadian literary community.
Her awareness and condition deepen ethical and legal questions after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her for murdering a classmate decades ago.
A judge will soon rule on whether the former F.B.I. director must face trial for an Instagram post.
Abdul El-Sayed once called Barack Obama's re-election "no victory" for progressives, complicating his upcoming campaign rally with the former president.
This line must have sounded good in the head of the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate, but words have meanings.
Do Europeans fully grasp what the fall of Ukraine would mean for the rest of the continent?
Chelsea Follett's new history shows how wretched life was before the industrial revolution, but our escape from it began long before the steam engine.
Bernadette Greene-Placentia says she was knocked unconscious and sexually assaulted while repairing her campaign signs in Sun City, Arizona.
Zohran Mamdani doubled down on his accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, refusing to walk back remarks that sparked bipartisan backlash.
Reported Somali gang violence disrupted homecoming, raising questions about Minnesota's Democratic leadership amid mounting fraud scandals.
Vice President JD Vance singled out the tech firm as he and other officials accused an array of companies and universities of abusing the visa system.
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Vaccine safety experts say more research into the side effects would be welcome yet question whether the health secretary’s effort will be grounded in science.
A new generational opportunity is taking shape in the skilled trades.
The court paused a lower-court ruling while it considered the latest move in a monthslong fight over who is entitled to low rates for political ads.
“There are states right now in play that I would not have imagined being in play,” the former president said.
The divisive, anti-American ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion doesn’t belong in any educational institution.
Former Human Rights Watch senior editor Danielle Haas on how NGO reports get made, what happens to staff who dissent, and why she wants outside oversight.
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…
Not even Mayor Mamdani is safe.
The aircraft carrier, whose crew endured food shortages, spent much of its nearly 11-month deployment in combat without a day off.
Trump has spent much of his second term cleaning up the mess created by Democrats who previously held power - many of whom want your vote again in November. There is still violent crime in the country, but there has been much less of it since Trum…