The midterms will usher in a new cast of characters to oversee the next presidential race. They’ll decide how to answer Trump’s orders and how to shape mail voting and registration.

The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.

UVALDE, TX—In the hours following a violent rampage in Texas in which a lone attacker killed at least 21 individuals and injured several others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of ...

MEMORANDUM OPINION re the 29 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and the 32 Motion to Dismiss, or in the Alternative, for Summary Judgment. See the attached document for details. Signed by Judge Spark...

Trump’s schemes to subvert the midterms have so far failed. What happens next? A reflection on the threat as well as the limits of authoritarian escalation

The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.

For the time being, let’s celebrate that the center of the court did hold, even as dangers remain ahead in both 2026 and 2028.

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compared ICE’s policy to Japanese internment.

Trump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of its authors—among them a one-time DOGE affiliate.

Summer 2026 was the hottest on record in the contiguous U.S., with August also setting a 132-year high.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

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The populist, far-right, anti-immigration AfD won the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt

The Havas family has a history with the authorities.

Germany is facing the prospect of rightwing extremism in power. Time to push back hard against the narratives that have undermined the democratic response in the U.S.

The ruling is another significant setback for the administration’s efforts to restrict voting ahead of November. And it comes a day after a federal judge blocked the administration from implementing…

No, not exactly. But he has a consistent, grievance-fueled idea of how power and status should be distributed, and that aligns him with the Right’s ideologues just fine