Missouri's Republican-led House turned aside Democratic objections Tuesday and passed a plan backed by President Donald Trump to redraw the state's congressional districts so that Republicans could win an additional seat in the closely divided chamber.
THE GRIM NEWS ABOUT JOBS. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has revised the number of jobs it says were created in the year between April 2024 and March 2025. Until now, the official line was that the economy created 1.758 million jobs in that period. Now, the BLS says only 847,000 jobs were created, less than […]
Like everyone else, my imagination filled in the missing gap of the original video of Iryna Zarutska’s murder with images from an action film: the killer’s knife, flashing beside his shrouded face, plunges in a frenzied swing, opening the young woman’s throat almost painlessly — a Tarantino-esque spasm of stylized violence. This is my cultural […]
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) and Josh Kraft, the son of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, advanced in the primary to the general election in the city’s mayoral race, Decision Desk HQ projects. The race call formally sets up the head-to-head battle between Wu, Boston’s first female mayor and first Asian American mayor, who...
Susan Monarez, the former director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is set to testify before a Senate panel next Wednesday, Sept. 19, on the recent high-profile departures from the agency. On Tuesday, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced the committee would...
President Trump on Tuesday said he wasn't "thrilled" by Israel’s attack on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, but he told reporters he wasn’t caught off guard when it happened. “I’m not thrilled, I’m not thrilled about it,” he said. “I’m not thrilled about the whole situation, it’s not a good situation. “But, I will say...
President Trump ventured just outside the White House's grounds on Tuesday to dine in downtown Washington, D.C., to highlight the federal crime crackdown nearly a month after his decision to send National Guard troops to the nation's capital. The president went to Joe’s Stone Crab, which is a few blocks away from the White House,...
The mayor of Evanston, Ill., Daniel Biss, claimed Monday the Trump administration “wants to keep us guessing” on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched an immigration crackdown aimed at Chicago. “I know you’ve just warned your entire city — publicly — that ICE operations are imminent, and...
Most Americans say people’s personal choices play a major role in determining whether they stay in poverty, according to a new poll released Monday. In the UChicago Harris/AP-NORC poll, 62 percent of respondents say personal choices are a “major factor” in why people stay in poverty, while 31 percent say they’re a “minor factor” and...