With the midterm elections a month away and Republicans struggling to respond to voter frustration over healthcare costs, President Trump is handing out cash. Last week, Trump pledged $90 to more than tens of millions of seniors on Medicare. That announcement came on top of other pledges to send money to Americans, including $500 ObamaCare...

Book bans reached an all-time high this year as political pressure and AI fuel a spike in titles taken off the shelves. Almost 12,000 books were banned between 2025 and 2026, a 5,000-book jump from the previous year, according to a Monday report by PEN America, a free-speech organization. The vast majority of the book bans...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom called Trump "mentally ill" and demanded the 25th Amendment after the president's remarks about Los Angeles and San Diego.

China nearly doubled its military and coast guard vessels near Philippine flashpoints in September, raising the stakes for a U.S. treaty ally.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani's $30 million antisemitism plan indirectly funds the Arab American Association of New York, a group critical of U.S.-Israel ties.

Trump shared Tom Cotton's cell phone number after the Arkansas senator opposed the Sunshine Protection Act for permanent daylight saving time.

James Talarico criticized Texas public schools for focusing too heavily on academics, arguing social-emotional learning matters more than the curriculum.

Declassified FBI memo reveals Jack Smith's team met with Trump-critic and former CIA director John Brennan to discuss Trump's case, despite Smith telling GOP lawmakers he had never met Brennan before.

The Common Cents Act already targets the penny, but lawmakers now want the Treasury Department to find cheaper ways to produce the nickel coin.