Waking up on a Saturday morning to find out that Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has been captured in a lightning raid by United States special forces is surreal enough. But imagine learning of the raid on CNN and then being invited to bet on it. CNN recently signed a deal with “web-based prediction market platform” […]

Millions of Americans will have a chance to view the Northern Lights on Friday and Saturday, according to an aurora forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center.

President Trump on Friday floated slapping potential tariffs on countries that oppose the U.S. acquiring the Danish territory of Greenland. Trump made the remarks after describing threatening European allies, including France and Germany, with 25 percent tariffs if they did not pay more for prescription drugs. “I went through country after country,” Trump said at...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday in Caracas, the same day President Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the White House.  Ratcliffe, the most senior administration official to visit Venezuela since U.S. Special Forces captured Nicolás Maduro, traveled to the Latin American country at...

There's no avoiding it: White liberal voters often dismiss qualified candidates of color, especially Black candidates, as unelectable.

Thousands of X users reported outages Friday, with the social media platform’s homepage showing an error message. Some have also reported issues with the website and server connection, according to Downdetector. As of 10:42 a.m. EST Friday, Downdetector had received 53,482 reports of outages on X.  The issues on Friday follow a brief Tuesday outage...

Tyler Robinson, the alleged gunman who fatally shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk last year, is seeking to disqualify the attorneys prosecuting him in Utah. Robinson’s defense team has raised concerns with one of the deputy county attorneys whose child attended the campus event at Utah Valley University where Kirk was shot, according to The Associated...

In its deficient reading of history, the Supreme Court seems to have missed this lesson. 

Washington has multiple options.

It's a quiet day on Capitol Hill, but the fight over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is escalating after two officer-involved shootings in Minneapolis have sparked tense protests in recent days. Democratic lawmakers are threatening to withhold support for an appropriations bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE. That could derail funding...