President Trump on Wednesday ordered the Department of Justice to open a price-gouging probe because gas prices are not falling as fast as oil prices, which plunged to their lowest levels since the start of the Iran war.

Attorney George Conway, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project and one of the country's most prominent critics of President Trump, lost his bid for a Manhattan congressional seat Tuesday, finishing fifth in a Democratic primary that saw New York Assemblyman Micah Lasher emerge as the front-runner to succeed retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler.

All three candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won primaries on Tuesday in a sweep that cements the Democratic Party's lurch toward socialism.

Claire Valdez used her victory speech Tuesday night in New York's 7th Congressional District to lay down a marker: She vowed to fight to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stand firmly with the transgender community, and push to end the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

A bill barring members of Congress and their family members from placing government-related bets on prediction markets narrowly passed a House panel.

Adrian Boafo won the Democratic race to succeed Rep. Steny Hoyer, and Rep. April McClain Delaney fended off a multimillion-dollar challenge from predecessor David Trone in her reelection bid during Maryland's Democratic primary elections.

The country's food stamp overpayment rate topped 9% last year, the Agriculture Department announced Wednesday, as states continue to struggle with fraud and waste in the program.

A middle school principal in the “progressive,” affluent town of Lexington, Massachusetts, is under fire — deservedly, in my view — over a missive sent to community families in which he apologized to certain students who were supposedly offended by a portion of the curriculum. The issue arose after seventh-grade students attended a session about […]

THE DEMOCRATIC DEBATE IS OVER. THE LEFT WON. When a political party loses a big election, it usually goes into a period of introspection. What went wrong? How can it be fixed? When Democrats lost the 2024 election, some argued the party had gone too far left, that it needed to move toward the center. Others said […]

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Trump eyes AI riches with government stakes President Trump is considering a plan that would give the U.S. government direct stakes in leading AI companies, putting him in unusual alignment with some of his fiercest critics. © AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool The president confirmed earlier this month...