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State Income Tax Phaseout Headed to Missouri Ballot

The average Missourian will save nearly $3,000 per year if the amendment is approved, according to Missouri lawmakers.

Iran Tests Trump’s Appetite for Humiliation

Iran has demonstrated that it will not give Trump the placid midterm election cycle...

Go to Work — Physically

The message that younger workers need to hear is not nuanced.

More on the Senate and Majority Rule

Mike Lee once argued Senate rules were essential to compromise and accountability. Those arguments...

Sanders says Platner should quit Maine Senate race

Sen. Bernard Sanders has joined the chorus of elected leaders calling on Graham Platner to drop out of the Maine Senate race -- a move that could put a final nail in the Democrat's political coffin and clear the way for the state party to pick a replacement.

MacBooks, Xboxes grow in cost amid AI boom

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story How the AI boom is making MacBooks, Xboxes more expensive The AI boom is fueling massive demand for memory chips, forcing electronics manufacturers to grapple with rising prices that are starting to trickle down to consumers. © Illustration / Courtney Jones; and Adobe Stock Memory chips, which are...

NAACP spending more on midterms than any other election in its history

The NAACP will be spending more on midterms than any other election in its history following the Supreme Court’s April ruling that effectively limited the Voting Rights Act's power against racial vote dilution. In response to the high court’s decision to strike down Louisiana’s second Black majority district, the nonpartisan civil rights organization will invest...

Ukraine hit by deadly Russian attack ahead of NATO summit

Russia launched a massive attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv late Sunday, shortly before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will head to Turkey for the annual NATO summit. Russia launched 68 missiles and 351 attack drones at Kyiv, Zelensky wrote on social platform X early Monday. As of then, the attack had killed 11 people...

Dana Bash presses Doug Burgum as he deflects on Patriot Front march 

Moments like these become defining not just because extremists show up, but because history remembers how our leaders responded. 

JD Vance rejects Milton Friedman, embraces socialism? 

Positing that free markets are somehow antithetical to human dignity is explicitly progressive framing.

Live updates: ‘I didn’t tell him what to do,’ Trump explains about call to FIFA chief over Folarin Balogun red card

President Trump's inquiry with FIFA President Gianni Infantino into the penalty drawn by Team USA player Folarin Balogun has caused a furor in the soccer world, just ahead of the huge round of 16 matchup between Team USA and Belgium. FIFA's independent board reversed the red card suspension of Balogun on Sunday, after which it...

From the courthouse to the White House: How corruption becomes routine

It took decades before I appreciated the cultural connection between tawdry corruption in a Cook County courtroom and the breathtaking venality of President Donald Trump. 

Luna calls for Patriot Front investigation after DC rally

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) on Monday called for an investigation into the Patriot Front white nationalist group after its Independence Day rally and march across Washington, D.C. “What I find odd about Patriot Front is how under Biden they were never investigated. Well funded. Never investigated,” Luna wrote in a post on the social...

Trump floats Australia-inspired retirement savings accounts 

President Trump said Monday that his administration is working on a plan to launch accounts for adults that would mirror Australia's retirement savings system. "We're going to be doing also something we're working on later on, and it'll be also, I think, very popular, and I guess the best definition is they have a plan...

Prosecutors to detail case against alleged Charlie Kirk assassin

Prosecutors in Utah this week will reveal some evidence against Tyler Robinson, the man they accuse of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk last September. Robinson will appear in court for a five-day preliminary hearing, during which prosecutors will attempt to convince state District Judge Tony Graf they have enough evidence to try the 23-year-old and...

OPEC+ companies slightly boosting production as oil prices slide

A group of oil-exporting countries has agreed to a modest increase in oil production, though current prices are already relatively low. Seven OPEC+ nations have said they will increase their production goals by 188,000 barrels per day. The participating countries are Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria, and Oman. Multiple nations in the Middle...

Trump rips ‘a little bit suspect’ FIFA referee who gave Balogun a red card at World Cup

President Trump offered stark criticism from the White House on Monday of the World Cup referee who gave a red card to U.S. men’s soccer star Folarin Balogun, saying he was "a little bit suspect if you check his past." FIFA referee Raphael Claus, who gave Balogun the red card after a video review suggested...

A win-win plan to de-politicize the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is on the verge of becoming a political football. Congress can prevent it — if both sides can trade what they want for what they need.

National Guard members patrolling in Memphis fatally shoot man

Two Tennessee National Guard members fatally shot a 20-year-old man in Memphis on Sunday after he was found with a handgun, according to investigators. Tyrin Johnson was killed by soldiers who were on assignment as part of President Trump’s Memphis Safe Task Force, deployed by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R). “Preliminary information indicates the shooting...

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