House Republicans still have not landed on a stopgap bill to prevent a government shutdown with just two days until the deadline.

Accusations that New Mexico's Democratic-led Legislature unfairly diluted the vote of a politically conservative oil-producing region with its redistricting map went to trial on Wednesday.

With gridlock persisting in Washington, a government shutdown is looking more and more likely ahead of Saturday night's deadline.

Dayjia Blackwell thought she was untouchable, but the Philadelphia Police Department showed her otherwise.

The public is flying more than ever, and the large, rapid increase is creating some problems. Airport infrastructure isn’t up to snuff in many cities (some Miami passengers will be walking a mile to their gate thanks to a downed airport train), staffing problems plague airlines and airports, and also, crowded planes and new fliers are leading to clashes over norms and etiquette.

In a rather gimmicky final question in the second Republican presidential primary debate, moderator Dana Perino asked candidates to name one other person on the stage who “should be voted off the island.” They mostly declined to answer, but there is an important point at the heart of the question.

These days, Democrats and Republicans seem to hate each other so much that when not attempting to incarcerate each others' principal political leaders, they can't come to a simple agreement to fund the government that employs them. What unites Washington is almost always more fascinating than what divides it, and thus, it is perhaps the most significant accomplishment of his entire career that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) singlehandedly cajoled the Senate into passing a unanimous formal dress code written by the two villains of their own parties, Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Joe Manchin (D-WV).

When the third GOP presidential debate takes place on Nov 8., the first primary contest will be two months away. That means only serious candidates should be on the stage, and that the Republican National Committee’s current polling threshold is still too low.

WHAT NEXT AFTER MESSY, CHAOTIC GOP DEBATE? The Republican presidential race is a bunch of challengers chasing former President Donald Trump. The second debate of the campaign, held Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, was supposed to help clarify, and perhaps rerank, the status of those challengers. It didn't. Instead, it left the field of Trump's opponents in greater disarray than before.

In 1915, Armenia suffered a genocide that killed anywhere from 50% to 80% of its population. It then endured an occupation by the Soviet Union that lasted almost a century. Now, the unrecognized Armenian area of Nagorno-Karabakh has collapsed under Azerbaijani force of arms.