Politics
On the campaign trail last fall, President Donald Trump promised a “new era of soaring income, skyrocketing wealth, millions and millions of new jobs, and a booming middle class. We are going to bo...
The opening salvo of President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation campaign has made immigrants across the United States fear that simply going to work, school, or the supermarket might result in a lif...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Tuesday issued two “urgent” safety recommendations after discovering thousands of close calls between helicopters and planes near Ronald Reagan Wa...
A Native American tribe with a powerful water claim had an ultimatum for the Trump administration: Release money to protect the Colorado River — or fight over the future of the most important river...
Last week, Mother Jones reported that Kingsley Wilson, the deputy press secretary for the Defense Department, has posted in recent years a long string of bigoted far-right posts—including endorsing...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a stark ultimatum to major food company CEOs in a closed-door meeting this week: Ban certain artificial dyes from your products or the government will do it for you....
The White House announced a plan Tuesday to promote President Donald Trump’s potential purchase of a Tesla, the car produced by Elon Musk, a major campaign donor who now wields significant power ov...
Katie Porter, the ex-Orange County representative who rode an anti-Trump wave to her first elected office, is betting a fresh “resistance” fervor can propel her to a new and bigger job: California’...
Elon Musk’s DOGE has ripped through huge swathes of the federal government, but no target has been hit like the U.S. Agency for International Development. On Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio...
Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in New York City and the U.S. overall in the late 19th century. Lewis Wickes Hine/Picryl, CC BYFederal datasets began disappearing from public view on Ja...
At two points in his autobiography, "My Early Life," Winston Churchill pauses to reflect on political parties:"It is not the slightest use defending government or parties unless you defend the very...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has deputized a folksy Louisiana lawmaker known for his blunt political observations and creative analogies to take the lead in convincing President Donald Trump t...
The Democratic Party's brand is in rough shape in the congressional battlegrounds.Nearly two months into the second Donald Trump administration, a majority of voters in battleground House districts...
President Donald Trump’s moves to expand the use of pardons have white-collar defendants jolting to attention — and many are responding with creative maneuvers designed to appeal less to judges or ...
The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending.Roughly $660 mill...
The Trump administration is taking some of the first, though limited, steps to examine whether the gutting of the federal government and its networks by the so-called Department of Government Effic...
The arrest of a Palestinian graduate student who represented anti-Israel protests at Columbia University marks a significant shift for the U.S. government, even from an administration that has prio...
Ontario hit three northern U.S. states with 25 percent price hikes for electricity on Monday — and the Canadian province's premier warned that he might even cut off the power flows completely until...
President Donald Trump touted the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the weekend — sign...
The past few years have violated many of my assumptions about human progress. Twenty-year-olds are going MAGA. More and more Americans say that women should return to their “traditional”...
President Donald Trump spent months on the campaign trail promising to shepherd the country to an economic Eden. This week is shaping up to be his first major test.The normally bullish Trump over t...