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The tragic Times Square stabbing: Letters to the Editor — Sept. 5, 2026

Post readers discuss the woman shot dead by cops in Times Square after stabbing two, including a new mom who died, and John Galliano dropping out of the Met...

University of Washington Pays $600,000 to Professor After Losing Land Acknowledgment Fight

Stuart Reges hopes the settlement helps reverse ‘a decade-long trend towards ideological conformity in...

The Quiet Diesel Fuel Cost Crisis

The outlook for diesel fuel prices is bad news, all the way from here...

New Science Ph.D. Program Saves Time and Money

A new program offers an alternative to the standard academic Ph.D. in science, and...

Parents overwhelmingly back Meta settlement, states enacting similar social media limits for youths

Four out of five parents support the recent Meta settlement that will implement new restrictions on teens' Instagram and Facebook accounts, according to a new poll.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to revoke Biden’s parole program

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to revoke temporary legal status granted by the Biden administration to hundreds of thousands of migrants. Lower courts rejected the attempt to end the two-year parole given to 532,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, saying President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...

Live updates: Cardinals elect first American pope; Trump unveils UK trade deal

Catholic cardinals on Thursday elected Robert Francis Prevost, an American, as their 267th pontiff on Thursday. He took the name Pope Leo XIV. White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel shortly after noon EDT, and the new pope addressed a massive crowd about an hour later. Earlier in the day, President Trump announced the framework...

Gen Z drinking less because they’re broke, Dutch study says

Rabobank last month published an analysis that explored the potential cause of Gen Z’s consumption of alcohol.

Jill Biden says she didn’t create ‘cocoon’ around former president

Former first lady Jill Biden defended herself amid questions over her husband's fitness for office during the 2024 presidential campaign, saying she didn’t create a “cocoon” around him. “Naturally, you are your husband's fiercest advocate and a close adviser, and it's been reported that you created a sort of cocoon around him and kind of...

Trump: US agreement will boost UK luxury carmakers

President Trump on Thursday touted how a trade agreement with the United Kingdom would benefit the British car industry, particularly luxury brands like Rolls-Royce and Bentley. As part of a trade deal announced in the Oval Office, the U.S. agreed to lower tariffs on British car imports from 25 percent to 10 percent. "We took...

Most California voters say Newsom focused more on White House than governor’s mansion: Survey

Most California voters say Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has focused more on a potential bid for the White House than his work in the governor’s mansion, according to a new poll.  In Wednesday's poll from the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at the University of California, Berkeley, 54 percent of respondents said that amid Newsom’s...

Alabama Democrat introduces legislation to protect land-grant schools

A freshman Democrat has introduced legislation to protect land-grant universities in an effort to block some of the White House’s steps to reduce federal funding for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.  Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Ala.) on Thursday introduced the Land-Grant Institution Parity Act, which would prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture or any other federal...

Biden says reports of mental decline are ‘wrong,’ defends not dropping out sooner

Former President Biden on Thursday denied accusations that his mental acuity took a slide toward the end of his presidency and called reporting that he was urged to drop out of the race over those concerns unfounded. "They are wrong, there is nothing to sustain that," Biden said during an appearance on ABC's "The View,"...

Shanahan: Someone ‘controlling’ RFK Jr. decisions

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s 2024 running mate, Nicole Shanahan, said late Wednesday that someone is “controlling” his decisions after President Trump named chronic disease entrepreneur Casey Means as his new surgeon general nominee. In a post on X, Shanahan called the announcement “strange,” adding that she was “promised” neither...

Biden quips that Trump is ‘vacant’ over voided pardon claims

Former President Biden on Thursday said that President Trump is “vacant," in a jab at Trump's claims that some Biden-era pardons are void. Trump is “obsessed with the fact that you used an auto pen to sign the pardons you issued right before you left office,” said “The View” co-host Joy Behar. “Now, he's calling...

Biden denies he urged Harris to allow ‘no daylight’ between them before election

Former President Biden denied reporting that he advised former Vice President Harris to allow "no daylight" between her positions and his as she ran for president last fall. "First of all, I never advised her against that," Biden said during an appearance on ABC's "The View," on Thursday, his first major television interview since President...

The Supreme Court made your rights harder to defend — Congress must now step up

The Supreme Court's decision in Lackey v. Stinnie has made it harder for Americans to vindicate their constitutional rights, and Congress must enact a simple, clarifying change to ensure access to justice for all.

Trump’s legal strategy: If you can’t win in court, threaten the judge

Judges have few avenues to fight back ethically against unprincipled personal attack.

Trump rips Powell after Federal Reserve holds rates steady: ‘FOOL’

President Trump tore into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell early Thursday, a day after the central bank opted to hold interest rates steady — bucking calls from the president to lower borrowing costs. “‘Too Late’ Jerome Powell is a FOOL, who doesn’t have a clue,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Other than that,...

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