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No, Paul Pelosi’s attacker was not just ‘a Canadian citizen who moved to San Francisco in his 20s.’
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin hasn’t flown a space tourism mission in more than 18 months.
Discussions that the judge had with lawyers in recent days indicate that Trump is not likely to be one of the witnesses called by the defense team.
One of US television’s most experienced and talented writers has made a mess of Tom Wolfe’s second novel.
The religious urge is born into nearly every child. And when we do not inherit a belief system, we build our own temples.
President Joe Biden wants a one-on-one debate against former President Donald Trump - without independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - because he thinks the moderators will "run interference" for him, Sen. Tim Scott said Sunday.
Whatever the Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker said in a commencement address, canceling him won't help. Just let him be wrong.
Can you believe the chutzpah of these two?
‘Compared to the political speech we’re hearing out of Columbia University lately, I mean, this qualifies as . . . almost Abrahamic wisdom.’
Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday refused to say he'll accept the 2024 presidential election results, sidestepping a commitment by declaring it's Democrats who have a history of pushing back on GOP wins.
Washington Post reporters Shayna Jacobs and Devlin Barrett describe the daily routine of covering Donald Trump’s trial in Manhattan criminal court.
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…
Especially in today’s world, there is no place for falsely claiming that stating a belief, true or false, about the Jews will land one in jail.
Former HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson tells CNN's Jake Tapper "I agree completely with his ideal of shifting it to the states... because the discussions can take place between the legislators and the people."
A Texas town near Houston is dealing with another spring of exploding mosquito populations, something one local official blames on the effects of climate change.
Sen. J.D. Vance, one of several Republican politicians reportedly on former President Donald Trump's list of potential running mates, said Sunday that the main goal is getting him elected president, and at this point, he's "happy to be an advocate…
"The Palestinians and Hamas, over the years, have turned whining into nationalism and are unable, at this stage, to stop the continued military advance in Rafah."
Biden’s speech about anti-Semitism is a test of courage as well as compassion.
The House Judiciary Committee chair suggests the Robert Hur report on Joe Biden says more than it does.
American partisanship turns diplomacy into a delicate dance even for the closest of allies.
Former President Trump’s criminal trial is expected to resume Monday with Michael Cohen on the stand for the third day of cross-examination by defense attorneys.
The announcement spells out the terms of a pullout that the Biden administration unveiled last month and comes after a military junta ousted Niger’s president last July.
President Biden's recent remarks about Americans being able to choose any car they want clash with his EPA's new stringent emissions standards, critics say.
House GOP Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., defended her speech with Israeli lawmakers in Jerusalem amid President Biden's "failed leadership" on the Hamas war.
There are more than 100 hostages and more than 30 hostage bodies still in Gaza.
Workers at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama voted against unionizing with the United Auto Workers on Friday.
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Finance ministers from the G7 nations are hoping to finalize a plan ahead of the group’s leaders meeting next month.
It's not the poll numbers that worry me, exactly. It's the denial of what's behind them.
Los Angeles County chose the anniversary of the fall of Saigon to honor ‘Hanoi Jane.’
The president aimed to leverage appearances at an NAACP event in Detroit and at a commencement speech in Atlanta to make inroads with a constituency that has drifted away from him in recent polls.
Americans have deep concerns about President Joe Biden's "capacity," and the election will highlight the strength of former President Donald Trump compared with a "weak" Biden, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said Sunday.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Mass., on Sunday stated that cutting federal funding to Harvard University and other schools "needs to be on the table" due to their handling of alleged campus antisemitism.
Directing physicians to treat their patients as racial statistics rather than an individuals is a grievous misdirection of their skills.
Morehouse College is praising its students after several graduates sat with their backs turned to President Biden as he delivered his commencement address at the school Sunday.
Amid campaign events and TV hits, Trump allies have discussed Burgum as a possible vice-presidential candidate, even as they caution that the list remains long.
Very few Americans—even young ones—rank the Israel-Hamas war as one of their top voting priorities.
Sen. Marco Rubio seemingly changed his stance on former President Trump's plan to use the military to deport millions of illegal immigrants from the country.
The president’s appearance at the historically Black college in Atlanta drew some respectful but noticeable protest over U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
It is perfectly reasonable to judge them on the moral rancidness of their cause, their thuggish behavior, and their willful ignorance.
Are concerns about cultured meat justified?
Chaos in the streets—real, imagined, or exaggerated—is never to an incumbent’s advantage.
New inflation data may suggest the economy is strong, but a closer look reveals major weaknesses.
The former president’s criminal trial has underscored what he values: loyalty, beauty, press coverage and using allies as bullies.
After seven months of campaigning, Israel’s most pressing problem remains the continued existence, indeed resilience, of Hamas.
Is the United States in a Chevalier de Panat moment? He was the obscure French nobleman who said that
Lawyers for two IRS whistleblowers claim special counsel "hid and twisted" information, prompting angst on Capitol Hill about alleged politicization of the Biden Justice Department.
Trump would reenter office with broad authority to restrict abortion access. The only question is how much of it he’d use.
The Senate will vote this week on a bipartisan border security bill after previous efforts collapsed when Republicans withdrew their support, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.
In the tenth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the epic 451 C.E. battle that pitted Attila the Hun against Gaul’s Roman and Gothic defenders.
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.
After Mercedes workers voted against joining the United Automobile Workers, the union will have less momentum as it campaigns to organize Southern factories.
The talks were the first since Iran attacked Israel last month in retaliation for its killing of an Iranian general.
President Joe Biden is supporting Hamas and defending its survival while taking a "hostile" stance toward Israel amid its nearly eight-month war in Gaza, the president of the Zionist Organization of America charged Sunday.
President Joe Biden gave a commencement speech at Morehouse, one of the country's preeminent historically Black colleges, as pro-Palestinian protests continue on campuses across the US.
His opinions are outgrowths of virtues in short supply: faith, fidelity to the traditional family, and respect for the different roles of husbands and wives.
After a spurt of optimism, Americans are feeling a little more glum about the economy — again.
One way that Biden wants to upset debate tradition is judicious - and should be the new norm.
Why is the GOP passing up such an easy election-year attack?
Majd Kamalmaz disappeared in Syria in early 2017. American officials recently disclosed to his family that they had intelligence indicating that he was dead.
Israel called for bipartisan support on Sunday from the United States against the establishment of a Palestinian state, which it said would be a reward for Hamas and its backer Iran.
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Censorship obscures our view of reality and impedes our society’s ability to function.
The U.N. calls it 'conflicted-related sexual violence.' Israel's Rape Crisis Centers calls it an "operational strategy." They agree that rape and other sexualized violence were part of Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.
U.S. troops ordered out of Niger by the West African country's ruling junta will complete their withdrawal by the middle of September, the Pentagon and Nigerien defense officials said Sunday.
Despite months of fear and loathing over votes on Ukraine aid, recent Republican primaries show incumbents suffering little to no effect from their votes.
While all eyes were focused on a Manhattan courthouse for Donald Trump's trial, a curious thing happened in Washington. President Joe Biden invoked executive privilege in defiance of Congress.
That Wilders’s ascendancy owes a great deal to the EU establishment’s handling of migration, multiculturalism, and, now, environmentalism does not seem to concern Timmermans.
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…
How demographic change is scrambling the geography of the 2024 presidential race
Ryan Gosling’s new film is a love letter to an under-appreciated art.
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.
A free man’s needling of caste systems and anti-growth systems is always worth a read, and Irving does it better than most.
I thought this trial was a sideshow; I now think I was wrong.
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Students who profess to care about justice but not about the truth will end up with neither.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) responds to fellow Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) calling him out on social media after he criticized the chaos in the house when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) traded …
A former employee with the Starr County District Attorney’s office pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport undocumented people on Friday, according to court records.
Infantilised students are lashing out at a Western civilisation they have been taught to loathe.
Just what the college unrest needed: political theater
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President Biden was criticized on social media for video footage showing an apparent small showing of supporters greeting his motorcade as it drove through Atlanta.
The late Buckley countered the Malthusianism of his day and prophetically wondered if underpopulation might eventually become a bigger problem.
No Republican presidential candidate has won Nevada since George W. Bush in 2004, but Democratic margins have narrowed in recent presidential elections.
The only plausible way forward for Palestinians is a commitment to peaceful coexistence alongside Israel.
The Senate will vote this coming week on a border security bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Sunday, even though the legislation has no chance of passing, Punchbowl News reported.
Addressing the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday promised to roll back the Biden administration’s gun-control measures if elected.
A survey of more than 1 million federal employees reflects the low morale of many workers.
The New York congresswoman will become the highest-ranking House Republican to speak at Israel’s Parliament since the Oct. 7 attacks, in a move meant to capitalize on Democratic divisions.
Certain Democrats trying to cope with President Biden's continually underwhelming 2024 poll numbers share an article of faith: the ceiling theory.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
President Biden's address to Morehouse College saw some protesters in the audience, and Biden called for a cease-fire in Israel.
A dispatch from a key battleground state.
The increasingly political nature of cultural criticism does a disservice to the arts, to artists, and to criticism itself.
The president, who is trailing key states in recent polling, tried to cast the election as a struggle for democracy itself.
Sen. Ron Johnson Sunday called on the Secret Service to push protesters further away from the Republican National Convention, planned for July 15-18 in Milwaukee, saying that a nearby park is a "gathering site for all kinds of potential mayhem."
The New York Supreme Court justice has stayed calm amid tense courtroom battles in Donald Trump’s hush money trial and public attacks by Trump and his allies.
In what is likely to be a politically charged showdown this week on immigration and home rule in Washington, D.C., House Democrat leaders are encouraging its members to vote against a Republican bill that would block a district law permitting nonc…
Dr. Ben Carson, who served as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development under former President Donald Trump, said his former boss "does not like to surround himself with 'yes' people" - including on the issue of abortion laws.
The vehicles are being adopted fastest in blue-leaning major metropolitan areas.
She had appeared onscreen as a conservative voice since the 2016 presidential race. A political strategist, she had worked for Republican presidential candidates.
Adam Hamawy and his fellow medical volunteers were trapped in Gaza after Israeli forces seized the Rafah border crossing earlier this month.
Public officials from Congress to City Hall are now regularly subjected to threats of violence. It’s changing how they do their jobs.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi experienced a "rough landing" in a helicopter on Sunday, according to Iranian state media.
Last night’s House Oversight Committee hearing marked a new low in American politics.
IF compensates for its storytelling levity with a dose of saccharine, akin to a triple-layer chocolate cake smothered in frosting.
Democrats have pinned their hopes of locking up Donald Trump on his odious former fixer.