Pete Hegseth tapped the Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich to advise the Pentagon on the future of war.

These Yankees might actually be something special. The team that just demolished the Red Sox is hungry, exciting, and — unusually for this franchise — young.

In the biggest sign yet of a midterm Democratic wave, the very cautious Cook Political Report is pointing to a Democratic House win, while most election forecasters flat-out predict a House-Senate sweep.

As the movement loses women like Ashley St. Clair and Bernadine Bluntly, the right’s lonely idea of family has come into focus.

The FlyDubai near-crash was a nightmare and a miracle. Similar incidents from aviation history have not ended well, but Wednesday’s flight did.

‘Super Intelligence,’ Trump’s dopey AI rebrand, explained. Trump is trying to shut down AI doomerism by giving “artificial intelligence” a friendlier name. But he may have a hard time making “SI” happen.

Trump’s big midterms convention in Texas was supposed to boost the state’s embattled Senate candidate, Ken Paxton. The opposite happened, Paxton admitted to a donor in a leaked audio recording.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reportedly investigating former congressman Adam Kinzinger.

Vance says he and Trump ‘war-gamed’ some wild and crazy ways to circumvent the Senate in order to pass the toxic SAVE America Act, but false bravado is no match for reality.

The New Brooklyn Democrats are trying to thwart Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn’s succession plan.

Four years after his stint in a Russian prison, the Wall Street Journal reporter is still fighting for a regular life.

Fresh off an SNL parody, CEO Dario Amodei dined with President Trump and become the public face of potential apocalypse.

Eric Schmitt’s failed takedown of Jack Smith during Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was an instant classic.

As his midterm campaign travel plans show, Trump is focused on places where Republicans should win easily. This is an ominous development for the party’s chances in November.

Trump scores 98 percent approval (by cherry-picking polls). The president shared 43 seconds of a CNN polling report on Truth Social, omitting the 13 minutes where Harry Enten showed his numbers have ‘plummeted into the ocean.’

While the president will surely undermine the midterms results if Republicans lose, he shouldn’t expect the high court to be in his corner.

Jeff Zucker, the former head of CNN and NBCUniversal, plays his former world-straddling self in ‘Primetime.’ But he says he’s moved on.

Trump is wooing taxpayers by wasting their money on campaign ads. The president is doubling down on self-promoting, government-funded commercials, which may be illegal. His affordability pitch might need some work.

At this point, it’s all but certain Trump will claim a premature victory on election night if the GOP is ever ahead, or claim foreign government interference if it’s not, writes Ed Kilgore.

AOC’s upstate tour looks like a preview of something bigger. The congresswoman is drumming up support for Democrats in November — and maybe for herself in 2028.

Nikole Hannah-Jones and her 16-year-old daughter Najya had a poignant and at times tense conversation about parenting and school inequality on the new episode of ‘This American Life.’ Here are some of the most notable moments.

Are OpenAI agents going rogue, or is OpenAI? The artificial intelligence industry can’t agree on what it’s building — or just how frightening its product really is.

The new exposé of staff complaints about Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola shouldn’t be dismissed. But when it comes to Congress as a workplace, abuse is built right into the institution, Ed Kilgore writes.

The MAGA movement promised to put ordinary people first. A year in, they have fallen to the bottom of the Trump administration’s priority list.

A Supreme Court order showed six conservative justices having no problem with letting DHS access personal data to screen voter eligibility. It won’t take effect for the midterms, but watch out in 2028!

With just weeks to go before the midterms, pretty much every poll seems like good news for Democrats. Here’s a quick scan of the most notable ones.

Democrats seem to be overperforming in red-state Senate races this year. That could just be setting the stage for an inevitable GOP comeback. It could also be a realignment, Ed Kilgore writes.

Greg Casar is urging colleagues to seize the AI debate as the party vies to retake Congress in November.

In a ‘Today’ interview, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg also brushed off warnings about an AI apocalypse.

Trump makes Xi greeting as awkward as possible. He showed up in a winter coat and leather gloves, commented on Xi’s attractiveness, then exclaimed ‘(Airport!)’ for unclear reasons.

New high-quality polling shows a majority of Michiganders, and an even bigger majority of young voters, don’t even know who Hasan Piker is. He’s a red herring in Mike Rogers’s effort to defeat Abdul El-Sayed.

A growing number of Republican candidates are awkwardly attempting to distance themselves from Trump. Here’s a running list.

The timeline for casting and counting votes varies by state, which changes the meaning of both ‘Election Day’ and ‘Election Night,’ despite Trump-backed conspiracy theories over early voting.

A Trump-appointed federal judge wasn’t swayed by the Justice Department’s national security claims.

Meta’s Muse AI assistant is a preview of what comes after chatbots like ChatGPT and of how the rest of the internet — from Amazon to Google — will respond

Evan Barker quit the Democratic Party and voted for Trump. Now she’s telling (a few) stories about what she saw in a new book that mixes gossip and condemnations of ‘woke.’ Her old colleagues aren’t happy.

The city is taking Donald Trump’s social-media company to court for offering traders early access to posts for $100,000 a month.

Trump’s shoddy White House ballroom design is the real national security threat. The president reportedly shrugged off the original architect’s concerns that he was violating fire and safety regulations, saying “I am the code.”

Trump’s popularity is circling the drain at the worst possible time for his party. Polls show his job performance ratings continuing to go down in every possible way.

Integration efforts of the 1950s were part of a movement. Today, Black parents are left with an unequal system and an uncoordinated push to change it.

Self-dealing has defined the Trump era. A new report alleging that Maine senator Susan Collins may have traded federal contracts for campaign contributions could test whether voters finally care.

Why President Donald Trump’s attempt to bar CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House is doomed to fail.

The political scientist on how his most famous thesis was misunderstood, the joy of hobbies, and growing up in New York City.

The online sleuth Andrew Kaczynski has reported some of the biggest scoops of this campaign season. Here’s how he gets it done in an age of enshittification.

A new poll finds that Americans, regardless of party, largely disapprove of the Iran war and President Trump’s handling of the ongoing conflict.

It’s hard to promote a Red Scare when you’re palling around with the socialist mayor of New York and the communist leader of China. Trump is stomping all over the message he’s forced his party to adopt.

Trump TV is finally here, and no one is watching. A media boycott drove Trump to dabble in state TV. But instead of a network competitor, Trump TV is just a dinky YouTube livestream with abysmal ratings.

Utah Republican senator John Curtis is asking Congress to apply the Hunter Biden standard to Trump’s son.

Christian clergy like James Talarico and Adam Hamilton running as Democrats in 2026 are defying the alleged GOP monopoly over Christianity without seeking to impose their faith on others.

Christian clergy like James Talarico and Adam Hamilton running as Democrats in 2026 are defying the alleged GOP monopoly over Christianity without seeking to impose their faith on others.