Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday will announce funding for a major infrastructure project connecting Virginia to Washington, D.C., as the White House wraps up a three-week travel blitz to highlight economic investments. Harris's announcement will coincide with other administration officials fanning out around the country that day. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will be in...

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has condemned the military drills China conducted in the Taiwan Strait in apparent retaliation after Tsai met with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in the U.S. last week, saying Beijing is not acting in a "responsible" manner.  “As the president, I represent our country in the world, whether it’s a visit to...

Gerrymandering is intensifying political polarization and making a mockery of the fundamental principle that every vote should have equal weight.

It was Voltaire who said, “if God didn’t exist, it would become necessary to invent him.” The modern corollary would be, “if Trump didn’t exist, it would become necessary to invent him.” Not to say that Trump is God, because that is certainly not the case. But if not for the former president, there would...

Former President Trump on Tuesday said a gold-painted golf club given to him by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is being sent to the National Archives, after Trump and his family were criticized for failing to report gifts from foreign governments.  “I am pleased to report that after a search, we were able...

The problem for the Mets so far this season has been debilitated pitching. The problem for Santos is his debilitated pitch.

A fifth victim of a mass shooting at a bank in Louisville, Ky., on Monday has died, police said, after a bank employee opened fire at his workplace.  The 25-year-old shooter killed four people at the scene and injured at least eight others with a rifle, the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) said, and then...

We can hate the idea that Americans are being taken hostage by foreign governments — a special category of hostage-taking called “wrongful detention” — though this practice is likely to continue until we find the right means of disincentivizing such behavior. But any policy to disincentivize other nations should not be done to the detriment...

The United States is in the midst of the largest overdose crisis in the country's history. Nevada's Senate committee is debating harsher penalties for trafficking fentanyl.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has summoned former President Trump to NYC for a deposition on her fraud lawsuit against him and his company, according to reports.