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West Virginia worked with ICE — 650 arrests later, officials say Minnesota-style ‘chaos’ is a choice

ICE surge in West Virginia nets 650 illegal immigrants in two weeks with strong local cooperation, contrasting sharply with Minnesota-style protests.

Make Democrats defend noncitizen voting

Passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act will not save the Republican Party from losing the House of Representatives in 2026, as President Donald Trump claims. But it is a reasonable and desirable constitutional reform that would help restore faith in elections. It deserves a vote on the Senate floor. According to the best […]

Trump, another hair-on-fire uproar, and the midterms

TRUMP, ANOTHER HAIR-ON-FIRE UPROAR, AND THE MIDTERMS. On Friday, the political and media world experienced a nervous breakdown over President Donald Trump’s posting of a video that contained a racist image portraying former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. The video contained a lot more — with a jungle theme, it […]

Michael Goodwin: The Democratic Party we once knew is dead

Despite some grumbling, there was never any doubt that Gov. Hochul, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli...

The anti-ICE activists are an insurgency, not a protest movement

The objective isn’t dissent. It’s obstruction.

Trump’s threat on Iran falls flat: regime remains intact

Protests in Iran have been quelled, with the regime still in place, and President Trump's empty threat to take action against the government has been met with criticism for not backing up his words with action.

America’s top Catholic clerics denounce militaristic US foreign policy

The three highest-ranking Catholic cardinals who lead archdioceses in the United States issued a statement Monday criticizing U.S. foreign policy as overly militaristic, referencing President Trump's recent operation in Venezuela and threats to take Greenland by force. In a joint statement, Cardinals Blase Cupich, Robert McElroy and Joseph Tobin, the archbishops of Chicago, Washington, D.C.,...

GOP’s culture of rebellion in slim majority imperils Johnson agenda

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) job managing the House GOP’s paper-thin majority is getting only more difficult in the new year, with a culture of rebellion — and a perfect storm of external political factors — threatening to derail the party’s agenda just as Republicans are gearing up for a tough midterm cycle. In the earliest...

Trump’s potential Supreme Court pick ignores his own judicial hubris

Ho’s own article and conduct display some of the very qualities he condemns in others.

Musk drops $10 million in race to replace McConnell: Report

Billionaire Elon Musk donated $10 million last week to a super PAC affiliated with Republican Kentucky Senate candidate Nate Morris, who is part of a competitive field running to replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Axios reported Monday.  The contribution to Fight for Kentucky marks the most Musk has donated to a single Senate candidate....

Europe cannot abandon its commitment to human rights

It is fair to say that the fate of the liberal international order will be decided by what happens in Europe — especially in the European Union.

DOJ threatens to ‘come down hard’ on protesters who disrupted Minnesota church service

Attorney General Pam Bondi threatened to prosecute protesters who disrupted a church service Sunday in St. Paul, Minn. Bondi wrote on the social platform X that she spoke to Jonathan Parnell, the pastor who leads Cities Church. A group of protesters interrupted Parnell’s sermon Sunday and accused David Easterwood, another pastor at the church, of...

The most expensive states to have a baby aren’t where you’d think

Take a guess: Where's the most expensive place in the U.S. to give birth? If you're thinking of California or New York, you're wrong.

As Trump wars with King’s legacy, America must embrace it 

Attacks on the legacy of the civil rights movement have included library purges and demands for censorship in college classrooms, national parks and monuments and museums.

Live updates: Trump links Greenland push to Nobel snub as tensions rise with allies

America's European allies are pushing back hard against President Trump's pressure tactics in his bid to take control of Greenland, with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer issuing rare public criticism of Trump on Monday. Starmer called Trump's threatened 10 percent tariffs on goods from eight European allies "completely wrong," though he suggested "calm" discussions to...

Which tax bracket are you in for 2026, and how much is the standard deduction?

As a taxpayer, you pay tax as a percentage of your income in layers called tax brackets, according to the IRS.

Flying without a REAL ID? $45 alternative available soon

The TSA warns that, without a REAL ID or this new program, you could face "additional delays which may result in a missed flight."

Trump links Greenland push to Nobel Peace Prize slight

President Trump suggested the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to award last year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was a factor in his continued push to acquire Greenland in a letter to Norway's leader over the weekend. In a letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre shared with multiple European...

Flying without a REAL ID? $45 alternative available soon

The TSA warns that, without a REAL ID or this new program, you could face "additional delays which may result in a missed flight."

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