Politics
As world leaders grasp for a response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, they have two models to study — and both have plenty of pitfalls.Two of the first targets of Trump’s trade ire, Mexico and...
NEW YORK — New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams raised $128,000 in just five days for her mayoral bid — a fast start for her late entry into the race to replace Mayor Eric Adams, but not en...
The Social Security Administration is laying off 12% of its workforce, and the loss of expertise, especially on key systems, could put benefits at risk as DOGE tries to look for fraud, accord...
How Barack Obama Built An Omnipotent Thought-Control Machine... And How It Was Destroyed
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Trump Cancels Security Clearances Revolving-Door Lawyers Involved In Russiagate And J6 Prosecutions
President Donald Trump on Friday issued an executive order revoking the security c...
The liberal organizing group Indivisible said Saturday it was calling for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down from his leadership role, the latest fallout after he backed a GOP bill t...
President Trump said the United States has launched “decisive and powerful” strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen, warning that the military “will use overwhelming lethal force” until the Iran-...
President Donald Trump has signaled the next set of agencies on the chopping block, as his administration looks to cut down the size of the federal government.Trump, in a late Friday executive orde...
President Donald Trump continued his retaliatory spree against major law firms on Friday, signing an executive order targeting New York firm Paul, Weiss days after a judge ruled that major parts of...
There’s never been a better time to be a disgraced politician seeking a second chance.A pair of former governors who resigned in scandal are vying to lead major cities on both sides of the Hudson R...
A federal judge has preemptively barred the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelan nationals, as the administration prepares to deploy a rarely used law meant to quickly remove foreign...
Last Saturday, federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil — a lawful permanent resident with a green card whose wife, a U.S. citizen, is eight months pregnant —...
Democrats’ blowup over funding the government isn’t just triggering a fight about the future of the party. It is reopening old wounds they had hoped to move past, too.After an ultimately unsuccessf...
President Donald Trump is gutting U.S.-backed global media, including Voice of America, that broadcasts news to millions worldwide — and that he has long held a grudge against.The move comes after ...
The Trump administration’s massive claw back of Columbia University’s federal funding and the arrest of a green-card-holding campus protest leader has created one basic question across academia: Wh...
Leslie Redmond (right) and her husband.Courtesy of Leslie RedmondLeslie Redmond, 38, moved from Anchorage, Alaska, to Winnipeg, Canada, in 2022.Redmond said Canada is similar to the US but has more...
President Donald Trump’s week was poised to be bruising.Instead, the president is ending it on a political high after he and congressional Republicans closed ranks and, with an assist from the loom...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of military standards related to physical fitness and appearance across all services, indicating recent policies put in place to make it easier f...
Canada may not want to become America’s 51st state. But its residents have long found the 27th state irresistible.Enticed by warm winters, beaches, theme parks and a friendly business climate, Flor...
Year after year, in shutdown fight after shutdown fight, in debt-limit standoff after debt-limit standoff, you could count on this: While Republicans would be bickering and taking potshots at each ...
Chuck Schumer is facing one of the most perilous moments of his Senate leadership career.The Senate minority leader came under heavy fire for the second straight day from Democrats enraged at him f...