Incoming Democrats are poised to advance legislation forcing the Trump administration to release all the federal files on Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender. Up to now, the focus on Capitol Hill has been on which Republicans might buck President Trump and GOP leaders and endorse a procedural tool, known as a...
The Justice Department (DOJ) sued Boston and its Democratic mayor, Michelle Wu, on Thursday over the city’s sanctuary law, arguing that it is illegal and helps release dangerous criminals who should be deported. “The Boston Police Department was once a cooperative partner with ICE’s immigration enforcement efforts. Throughout 2015, the Boston Police Department honored all...
Apart from short-lived confrontations in the South China Sea, China has not been involved in an extended intensive military conflict for nearly a half century.
New legislation would automatically funnel tariff revenues above 2025 levels into a trust fund for deficit reduction as the U.S. collects record tariff income.
Republican doctors in the Senate, including Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., challenged RFK Jr.'s vaccine stance during a heated committee hearing.
Former Biden spokesman Andrew Bates is appearing before the House Oversight Committee on Friday as part of the panel's probe into "cover-up" allegations.
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
I could fill a whole article with stories. The time a manager locked the front door at a sprint lest a tour bus swamp us a minute before closing. The time a young black co-worker startled everyone by refusing to “wait on [her] own kind.” The time I stole a sausage patty from a customer’s […]
Unless you are a major Sinophile or one of those wayward souls who monitor box office receipts like day traders monitor the Japanese futures market (ahem), you likely haven’t heard of the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Ne Zha 2, an animated partial retelling of the 16th-century Chinese folk novel Investiture of the Gods, […]
Notwithstanding its title, Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore’s new book, We The People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, is not a history of the Constitution but of constitutional amendments — that is, of efforts to change the Constitution. And the reason that the subject interests her is that she doesn’t think […]