Republicans in the Indiana House have rolled out proposed changes to their congressional maps that could net them two new seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, putting them at the center of the nationwide redistricting battle.
Two conservative challengers were practically tied for the lead in Honduras' presidential contest with votes from about 55% of polling places counted early Monday, according to preliminary and partial results. The previous day's vote had come just days after U.S. President Donald Trump intervened in a close race by endorsing one of those candidates and announcing that he would pardon a former president.
Left-wing activists see growing ranks of young Democrats disenchanted with the party's older leaders, who they say aren't solving the country's problems and don't share their increasingly favorable view of socialist policies.
The Transportation Security Administration announced a new $45 fee to temporarily verify identities of airline passengers who lack a Real ID, starting on Feb. 1.
House Speaker Mike Johnson decided to phone a friend on Monday to rally voters behind Republican Matt Van Epps in a congressional special election in Tennessee that's drawing outsized attention as a test of the political mood heading into next year's midterm elections.
Indiana House members are expected to press forward Monday with redrawing the state's congressional districts in Republicans' favor, increasing pressure on their defiant counterparts in the GOP-led Senate to meet President Donald Trump's demands.
New York City's incoming Democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has chosen for his transition team a sociology professor at Brooklyn College who wrote a book about ending policing.
REQUIEM FOR A SCANDAL. Nearly four years ago, on Jan. 18, 2022, this newsletter wrote about a frenzy that was sweeping the anti-Trump world. It had to do with a novel theory regarding the 2020 presidential election dispute. From the newsletter: Here’s the short version: Trump supporters in a few states — Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan, and […]
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani‘s winning message was affordability: that the necessities of life are increasingly out of reach for most people and that government is the answer. “There is no problem too big for government to solve,” he boldly declared on election night. He was right about the problem but dead wrong about the solution. […]
