Robert Malley was the State Department’s lead negotiator in the Obama and Biden administrations’ efforts to “contain” Iran’s nuclear weapons program by licensing it. In April, the State Department suspended Malley’s security clearance, placed him on unpaid leave, and scrubbed his page from its website. Malley is now under investigation by the FBI: an unusually high level of scrutiny.
President Biden and his allies are taking competing approaches to the election of new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), balancing the realities of crucial governing while slapping campaign labels onto a member of the Trump-wing of the Republican Party that tried to overturn Biden's 2020 election win. Within hours of Johnson securing the Speakership, Biden, from...
The House GOP’s election of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), the architect of the conference’s legal strategy for challenging President Biden’s presidential win in 2020, is putting election denialism back to the center of the national conversation. Johnson took a leading role in spearheading an amicus brief backing a Texas lawsuit contesting the 2020 election results, which...
President Biden has come out ahead of some of his own administration’s official lines when it comes to the Israel-Hamas war, saying early on that another occupation of Gaza would be a mistake and this week suggesting he was open to the idea that he could ask for a ceasefire only if Hamas releases remaining...
Parents and students are stuck in a web of confusion and frustration amid an Adderall shortage that has lasted more than a year, with grades slipping and caretakers driving for hours to fill prescriptions. While ADHD can present in many forms, it commonly hurts children’s ability to concentrate in class and focus on their assignments,...
America's support for wars in Europe and the Middle East is testing U.S. weapons production capacity, with growing calls to ensure a robust stockpile. The Biden administration says it can support Ukraine’s war against a Russian incursion and Israel’s bid to wipe out Hamas in the Gaza Strip, while still guaranteeing American security. But experts aren't so...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is already facing the first big test of his nascent Speakership as he stares down a tight window to avoid a government shutdown. Government funding is set to run out Nov. 17, plunging Johnson straight into the same obstacle course that helped cost his predecessor the Speakership. Johnson has said he...
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...
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, is seeking more information about threats posed to Border Patrol agents after reports of new threats.