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This mayor organized Gwanghwamun Square watch parties, where he led cheers for a team whose early crash-out has prompted a political crisis. That's Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon at a...

Taylor Swift has a tacky MSG wedding and Madonna releases an amazing album — it’s bizarro world

Up is down. Day is night. Madonna is acclaimed. Taylor Swift is a circus...

Beating the heat is now part of hosting

Even as they dueled today in Houston, Canada and Morocco have something in common:...

Bioethicists: Prepare People for Public Health Coercion

The technocratic class has not yet abandoned its dream of establishing international rule by...

‘1619 Project’ creator says reparations would mean admitting U.S. existence is ‘crime’

'1619 Project' creator Nikole Hannah-Jones said paying reparations for slavery would amount to admitting that "the entire existence of the United States" is a crime.

Carville: Trump ‘going to walk away’ from presidency by next Easter

Democratic strategist James Carville on Sunday predicted that President Trump is "going to walk away" from the presidency and leave office by next Easter. Carville said during a discussion with his "Politics War Room" podcast co-host Al Hunt that Trump "has no earthly idea of what's coming" following the midterm elections in the fall. "The...

White House weighed suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants: Book

The White House last year weighed suspending habeas corpus rights, which allow for a challenge of someone’s detention, for undocumented immigrants, according to a new book from two New York Times reporters. According to a report from the Times published Monday featuring details from “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” by reporters...

‘No Congress for old men’ — young Democrats want generational change

This new class of Democrats will have a chance to upend Congress and enact reforms not seen in 50 years. 

Fox buying Roku for $22B

Fox Corp. announced Monday it is buying streaming company Roku for $22 billion.  In a release, Fox said it will pay $96 in cash and 0.9693 shares of its Class A common stock for each Roku Class A and Class B share outstanding. The deal values each Roku share at $160. The deal gives Fox...

Trump arrives at G7 after announcing deal aimed at ending Iran war: What to know

President Trump on Monday arrived at a summit with other Group of Seven (G7) leaders in the French Alps after announcing the U.S.'s deal to end the Iran war. The summit will bring Trump face-to-face with some European allies who have been openly critical of the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran, specifically British Prime Minister Keir...

To rebuild trust in maritime policy, the US must ratify the Law of the Sea

If we fail to take this clear and concrete action to restore trust in maritime safety and security, soon there will be no one willing to pull us from the sea. 

Obama: ‘Doubtful’ Iran deal will be ‘significantly different’

Former President Obama predicted any U.S. deal with Iran would be similar to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal his administration struck with Iran. “It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different, or in a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the...

Anthropic sends staff to DC after model export restrictions

Senior technical staff from Anthropic are in Washington to meet with White House officials after the company pulled its latest AI models Friday in response to an order from the Trump administration. A source close to Anthropic confirmed to The Hill that top staff are in D.C. and have been meeting virtually with officials daily...

Trump should take a page from the UFC rulebook on fair fights

But Trump doesn’t give a damn about fair play. 

Live updates: US-Iran agreement faces scrutiny; Trump lands in Europe for G7 summit

As President Trump travels to France for the Group of Seven (G7) summit, the globe is parsing the preliminary deal between the U.S. and Iran, announced Sunday. It would open the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, after it is signed in Geneva, but it pushes thornier issues, like Iran's nuclear capabilities, into 60 days of...

Stocks soar, oil prices fall on tentative agreement to end Iran war

Stocks rose on Monday after the U.S. and Iran reached a tentative deal to end hostilities, with oil prices falling ahead of the potential opening of the Strait of Hormuz. Futures for the S&P 500 were up more than 1.2 percent as of just after 9 a.m. Nasdaq futures, meanwhile, were up nearly 2.1 percent....

Schumer vs. Sanders: a fight for the Democratic Party’s identity 

It’s apparent that Democrats can and should no longer avoid this conversation

We are betraying our children with fossil fuel pollution 

Over the decades, whether we paid attention or not, one thing has remained constant: Our failure to get global warming under control is the greatest betrayal that any generation has ever imposed on its children. We are letting oil oligarchs get rich by robbing our children’s future. 

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