President Trump said Thursday that the U.S. and Iran have "sort of" agreed to the terms of a deal that would prevent Tehran from making nuclear weapons, a goal Mr. Trump has prioritized during every stop of his meetings with Middle Eastern allies this week.

The House Budget Committee may postpone a Friday meeting to package the pieces of President Trump's agenda into the promised "one big, beautiful bill."

Few 20th-century American novels are more widely celebrated than Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God. The work, which traces a Southern black woman’s odyssey through poverty and difficult marriages toward self-understanding, has been praised by countless scholars and writers, was adapted into a television film starring Halle Berry and produced by […]

Even during the lockdown, my village pub was the heart of the community. Banned by law from opening its doors, it sold fish and chips through a hatch. When the rules on meeting outdoors were relaxed a little, it organized markets in its beer garden where villagers could buy homemade cakes and jams and, above […]

When candidates for political office need a reboot, most campaigns turn to the consultant class. But during the 2024 presidential contest, former President Joe Biden ought to have excavated the archives of the Onion.  Last year, Biden’s image as a slumberous, easily dumbfounded senior citizen could only have been helped by the Onion‘s legendary fictitious […]

One day in 1959, Pvt. Joseph Caan, a 19-year-old soldier in the British army, visits a German town hall on a fact-finding mission. The official who receives him, Hans Büchner, notes the young man’s nerves and tries to put him at ease with his near-flawless command of English. Pvt. Caan would like to know what […]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sharply criticized President Trump on Thursday following reports that 17 family members of Sinaloa Cartel leaders were allowed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal with the Trump administration. In floor remarks on Thursday, Schumer accused the president of being “soft on crime” and of “rolling...

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) criticized a New York University (NYU) student who made pro-Palestine remarks during his recent graduation speech, after the university announced it would be withholding his diploma. During the NYU Gallatin School's Wednesday commencement ceremony, graduation speaker Logan Rozos denounced the treatment of Palestinians amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. "My moral and...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) criticized the Republican package of President Trump’s legislative priorities as a “slap in the face” for proposing to add trillions of dollars to the national debt. “The problem is it’s asking conservatives, like myself, to raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion. That’s historic. No one’s ever raised the debt ceiling that...