Failing to inform the president, the deputy defense secretary, and the Pentagon bureaucracy of his recent multiday medical incapacity this week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin must be relieved of his office. Austin has shown moments of strong leadership, such as on Ukraine. But he can no longer command the nation's confidence at the Pentagon.

CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour on Sunday accused former President Trump of engaging in “Nazi talk” and underscored the significance of former Vice President Pence calling for new leadership in the party. In a discussion on “Sky News” on Sunday, Amanpour warned about what public reporting is saying Trump and his team are planning...

Questions on Sunday continued to mount over Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's undisclosed hospitalization, with several political figures raising concerns over the public's and President Biden's unawareness that the nation's most senior defense official was unable to execute his official duties for days. News of Austin's hospitalization became public Friday, when the Pentagon announced he...

Former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile said on Sunday that U.S. Supreme Court justices appointed by former President Trump don’t owe him “one thing” and should not treat him differently when they hear arguments in his appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court decision removing the former president from the ballot under the 14th Amendment....

What might have motivated Rep. Tom Emmer to endorse the person who led the charge against his own election? 

The short answer is no, but there is still an approaching deadline.

Farms across California have had to euthanize several million chickens and ducks in recent weeks, as a wave of avian influenza threatens to upend national poultry and egg supplies. While cases of the disease have been cropping up throughout the U.S., agricultural hubs in Northern California have endured the greatest losses over the past month....

In practical terms, someone President Biden’s age might take a longer time to learn how to fly a plane, but he would be less likely to crash it relative to a younger person.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Sunday that displacement of Palestinians in Gaza is “absolutely not” the position of the Israeli government, despite widely rebuked remarks from a few cabinet members embracing this position. “Absolutely, absolutely not,” Herzog said in an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday when asked whether Palestinian displacement...

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Sunday pushed back against Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) claim she considered signing an amicus brief on overturning the 2020 election results, noting she was only in communication with Johnson about the brief. Johnson, who was serving as the Republican Study Committee chair at the time, helped lead efforts to...