Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s targeting of Democrats is legally questionable, experts say, but it’s helped to further his career nationally: “The more outrageous you are, the more you are ...

Social media users speculated whether a suspect arrested in Kirk’s fatal shooting was linked to the white nationalist’s following.

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On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

Nonmembership of the Paris Agreement doesn’t exempt countries from duty to fight global warming, ICJ says.

The National Guard's response to civilian protests has a deadly history made infamous by the Kent State Massacre.

The massive tax and spending bill passed by U.S. House Republicans would likely result in 3.2 million people losing food assistance benefits, and saddle states with around $14 billion a year in…

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Wednesday morning, CNN has reported, citing a U.S. official.

Another bad idea whose time has come in the Texas Legislature is upon us. It's time to revive my old proposal that Texas be made into a national laboratory for bad government. Having a bad idea in you...

President Donald Trump's national security advisor Mike Waltz was put on the defensive Sunday about a government agency he once supported.Waltz appeared on "Meet The Press" where host Kristen Welker a...

At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

In just two weeks, Donald Trump has made drastic changes to the Environmental Protection Agency. Here’s how they could impact efforts to reform toxic hot spots across the U.S. and who will be left to…

U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury says she's introducing a bill to hold Elon Musk liable for any damage he inflicts on the United States government.

The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

All live poultry markets in New York City and some of its suburbs were ordered Friday to close for a week after the detection of seven cases of avian flu, which has also hit farms nationwide, led to t...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking to business leaders in Toronto, attributed Mr. Trump’s statements about making Canada a U.S. state to Canada’s wealth of critical minerals.

How DOGE handles agency records will show its commitment to (or disavowal of) government transparency rules, with implications for every federal office it accesses

An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”

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The race is on to save public information about health and science before Trump makes it disappear