The White House said Monday that a red rash visible on President Trump's neck was caused by a prescription skin cream that was described as "preventative."
Sen. Susan Collins visited her childhood stomping grounds along the Canadian border on her first real campaign swing since launching her reelection bid, reminding voters how her seat atop the Senate Appropriations Committee has steered billions of federal dollars back home.
ICE cannot use budget sleight-of-hand to block members of Congress from conducting unannounced inspections of its processing and detention facilities, a federal judge ruled Monday.
President Trump celebrated the heroism of three U.S. Army soldiers by recognizing their bravery with the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony on Monday.
New York City paid more than $117 million last year to settle police misconduct lawsuits in cases ranging from the violent arrests of protesters in 2020 to bad police work that led to wrongful convictions in the 1980s, according to a newly published analysis of city data.
America has become much more secular. White evangelicals are increasingly de-institutionalized. This is a bad development, which helps explain the rise in extremism, racism, political violence, and antisemitism. There are reams and reams of evidence suggesting that, at least among conservatives, religiosity inoculates among extremism. Antisemitism is less common among frequent church-attenders, and so is […]
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has undermined the special relationship by his dithering and inadequate support for the United States in its conflict with Iran. The United Kingdom refused U.S. requests to use British air bases for strikes on Iran in the buildup to this conflict. Things have only gotten worse since the conflict began. Starmer’s […]
This past weekend, President Donald Trump ordered a targeted strike on Iran that resulted in the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This joint attack by Israel and the United States hit Khamenei’s compound in Tehran as part of a larger operation against high-ranking officials. Directly following the news of the supreme leader’s death, protests […]
“Just when I thought I was out,” Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone says in The Godfather Part III, “they pull me back in.” For the United States and the Middle East, it’s a familiar feeling. The U.S. once again finds itself at war in a part of the world that some historians have called a “labyrinth.” […]
A new coalition is taking aim at the rise of prediction markets by pushing for enforcement of state and tribal gaming laws, arguing that the platforms facilitate illegal sports betting. Gambling Is Not Investing, which launched Monday, contends that federally regulated prediction markets are operating in states where sports betting is illegal and improperly bypassing...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threatened to walk out of a deposition after Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) shared a picture of her during testimony to the House Oversight Committee for their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. As her attorney raised that a photo had been shared with conservative media, Clinton was visibly irritated. “I'm done...
More than 20 states are actively reducing or considering cutting back on their funding of programs helping people access HIV medications, as federal funding fails to keep up with the costs, according to a new report. The report from the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) found that 23 states, including Washington...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday knocked Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for criticizing U.S. strikes in Iran. “She’s a former congressman for a reason. What is it — America first is the following. Make sure that no regime when wishes to hurt America can, to make sure that they don’t have a ballistic...
