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In an unsigned order with no explanation, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority blocked the lower court orders that had stopped President Donald Trump from shuttering the Department of Education.

The decision seems ...Read more

There is no good reason for any American to become infected with the measles virus in 2025. Effective vaccines reduced the incidence of the disease to nearly negligible figures by the 1980s, and since a brief resurgence in...Read more

As we look back on 1776 after the July 4 holiday, it's a good opportunity to skip forward and predict what our forebears will think of us. When our descendants assess our policies, ideas, and culture, what will they see? ...Read more

Walking in stocking feet across a grimy airport as you make your way through security was the reality for many travelers for years. And if you happened to show up to security in sandals … well, we shudder to think.

But ...Read more

“Bring in the clowns” is a great motto for a circus but a bad one for a political party. I know because I was there when the Republican Party and conservative journalists started inviting in the Trumpy clowns in 2009 ...Read more

In 2000, Congress passed the Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance, and Protection Act (C.H.I.M.P. Act) to provide funding for lifetime care and sanctuary for chimpanzees who had been kept and used in U.S. ...Read more

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a single federal judge could not issue a nationwide injunction on a case related to the constitutional right of birthright citizenship that the Trump administration is trying to end, ...Read more

Stephen Miller, the front man for President Donald Trump's deportation campaign against immigrants, took to the airwaves the other day to explain why native-born Americans will just love living in a world cleansed of ...Read more

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the way you program an...Read more

With President Donald Trump continuing to bulldoze through American politics, Democrats are forced to confront a fundamental question: Do voters even want what they’ve been offering?

The meteoric rise of Zohran Mamdani,...Read more

WASHINGTON — Three pieces of cryptocurrency legislation and the fiscal 2026 Defense appropriations bill appeared ready for House floor action on Wednesday after stalling out for much of the day on Tuesday.

After a group...Read more

WASHINGTON — The rift within the Republican Party over the release of documents related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein continued to widen, with top congressional allies of President Donald Trump — including ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Virginia Foxx sat at the front Monday night and smiled slowly before her face stiffened.

She pinched her thumb against her pointer and middle fingers and rubbed them together.

She started to speak, ...Read more

Central Florida U.S. Rep. Cory Mills could face eviction from a luxury Washington, D.C., penthouse after his landlord sued and accused him of failing to pay tens of thousands of dollars in rent.

The Republican congressman...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Good mentors can teach us a lot, except how to say goodbye.

One of mine -- who entered my life a quarter century ago as one of my graduate school professors and who I was later fortunate to call "friend" --...Read more

President Donald Trump returned to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to tout massive private sector investments in artificial intelligence and energy in the key battleground state, but he also found time to weave into unrelated ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republican appropriators are running into headwinds in their attempt to move fiscal 2026 spending bills before the August break, struggling both with a tight schedule and intraparty differences on ...Read more

President Trump on Tuesday accused Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., of committing mortgage fraud by intentionally misleading lenders about his primary residence being in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., rather than California, ...Read more

ATLANTA — The 2026 elections may seem like a long way away, but that’s not how Georgia state lawmakers see it.

Plans — from new voting machines to even more new voting laws — are already underway as a special ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland’s oldest lawmaker hasn’t announced whether he’ll run for reelection. But if he doesn’t, it won’t be for lack of funding.

Rep. Steny Hoyer, a Prince George’s County Democrat, raised ...Read more