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American confidence in the courts has hit a record low across party lines. This is worrying – if not surprisingThe US supreme court has been hijacked by the ...
House conservatives are putting Speaker Mike Johnson on notice: He has work to do if he wants to keep his job.The Louisiana Republican is at his weakest poin...
In Congress’ last action of the year, the Senate passed a funding patch early Saturday with more than $110 billion in disaster aid, averting a government shu...
The Republican-controlled House passed legislation that would avert a government shutdown, defying President-elect Donald Trump's debt ceiling demand. The Se...
Democrats on Friday hit a major milestone, confirming more judges under President Joe Biden than Republicans did in President-elect Donald Trump’s first term...
Donald Trump will return to office facing far fewer constraints than when he entered the White House in 2017. The political, legal, institutional, and civic ...
The U.S. military killed an ISIS leader and another member in an airstrike in Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon revealed Friday.
U.S. Central Command (C...
Donald Trump is getting a rude awakening that his grip on the GOP isn’t absolute.In less than 24 hours, 38 House Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bi...
U.S. service members could miss their paychecks over the holidays if the U.S. government shuts down this weekend, according to the Pentagon.
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The federal government is careening toward a possible shutdown just as millions of holiday travelers are flocking to the airport. But even if lawmakers can’t...
Top U.S. officials are in Syria making the first face-to-face contact with rebel groups that took over the country in a lightning offensive ear...
The Biden administration announced Friday the approval of $4.28 billion in additional student loan relief for 54,900 borrowers across the country who work i...
Today's links
Trumpism's healthcare fracture-lines: How public health can win the Battle of the Cranks.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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President-elect Donald Trump's second administration has not even begun, and it is already staring down what could be its first make-or-break moment.After th...
To hear a lot of folks talk about it, the short, unhappy life of a bar called Political Pattie’s stands as an indictment of Washington, proof that it’s full ...
President-elect Donald Trump worked Friday morning to foist the blame for any potential government shutdown onto the current White House, insisting that the ...
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says she has often reassured police officers traumatized by the violence of Jan. 6, 2021 that “the rule of law still applie...
One of the most obviously wrong predictions about 2024 was also among the most universal 12 months ago: that the coming presidential election was going to be...
The site of ongoing state-sponsored border wall construction in La Casita-Garciasville, Texas. | Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images
It’s likely that no ...
Republican lawmakers want a return to "maximum pressure" on Iran in the second Trump administration and are widely open to the idea of strikes on Iranian nuc...
The Brutalist is a towering paean to the American dream, in all its force and folly. Set over several decades, Brady Corbet's post-World War II immigrant sag...
