Talk is cheap, but secession would be expensive - especially for the large number of red states that are indirectly subsidized by blue states.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said that she did not want Congress “meddling” in the city's affairs after President Biden said he would be willing to sign a Republican-led resolution overturning a crime bill passed by the city. “I will never say that we want the Congress meddling in the affairs of the District of...

Hard questions and definitive answers are needed on the most consequential global event of our lifetime.

Former President Trump is asking a federal judge to block a subpoena for his former vice president, Mike Pence, to testify before a grand jury that is investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to multiple reports. Trump’s lawyers cite executive privilege over Pence’s testimony in the motion to have the subpoena blocked...

Former President Trump said on Saturday that he would remain in the 2024 presidential race even if he is indicted in a number of state and federal investigations that he faces. “Oh, absolutely, I won’t even think about leaving,” Trump told reporters ahead of his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in suburban...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched a satellite that traversed the continental United States, just as did the recent Chinese surveillance balloon. The former itself posed no direct security threat, although the rocket capability that launched it did; it had no intelligence-gathering capability and was unarmed. We are still not sure about the precise extent...

Former NATO chief James Stavridis on Sunday encouraged Americans to remain optimistic about the state of global affairs, even in the face of “concerning situations" with Russia's war in Ukraine and tense U.S. relations with China. “There is nothing we cannot overcome as Americans,” Stavridis said on WABC 770 AM morning show “The Cats Roundtable.”...

House Democrats are vowing a fierce fight over Medicaid as Republicans eye plans to curb spending for the low-income health care program in the name of deficit reduction. Joining President Biden, the Democrats are warning that Medicaid cuts would disproportionately impact the same vulnerable populations least able to absorb the hit, including low-income kids, seniors...

Republicans are grappling with an increasingly apparent — and to some, uncomfortable — reality that an expectedly crowded 2024 primary field could once again boost former President Donald Trump to the GOP nomination. With three declared candidates already in the race and several more expected to announce campaigns in the coming months, Trump and his...

New data released by the FBI shows a historic high in the number of gun seizures issued as a result of individual failed background checks between 2020 and 2021.