A teen boy and girl who attacked a former Department of Government Efficiency employee and set off President Trump's crime crackdown in the District of Columbia will avoid jail time for their roles in the mob assault.

In the name of equity, New York City's leading candidate for mayor pledged he'll start phasing out the city's gifted and talented program in elementary schools.

A group of Democratic governors has launched a new alliance aimed at coordinating their public health efforts.

The Supreme Court is taking up a major Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, the centerpiece legislation of the Civil Rights Movement, that could gut a key provision of the law that prohibits racial discrimination in redistricting.

Forget abortion, guns and taxes -- for Virginia Democrats this fall, the new litmus test at the moment is whether they stand with or against Jay Jones.

Rep. Seth Moulton on Wednesday launched a primary challenge against Sen. Ed Markey in Massachusetts.

Vice President J.D. Vance said the threatening messages sent by Democratic Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones are "far worse' than the texts sent between Young Republicans in a group chat joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Highlighting the growing strain caused by Ukrainian attacks on its oil refineries, Russia has increased fuel imports from Belarus. At the same time, the Kremlin is reducing both fuel exports and import duties to stabilize domestic supply. These developments follow repeated Ukrainian drone and other sabotage strikes against Russian energy refineries, storage depots, and extraction […]

“All news media run by the [Chinese Communist] Party must work to speak for the Party’s will and its propositions, and protect the Party’s authority and unity.“ — General-Secretary Xi Jinping of the Chinese Communist Party addressing journalists in February 2016. Blatantly undermining the First Amendment, War Secretary Pete Hegseth is breaking his oath of […]

A few years ago, I walked into the Church of Santa Maria del Carmelo in Traspontina, between the Tiber River and the Vatican, and witnessed something pretty rare: a baptism. Rome has a below-average birth rate for Italy, which has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe, itself in the midst of a baby […]