Ten years ago, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback refused to stand for the national anthem. He was accused of disrespecting the flag, the game, and America. In a rare interview, he talks about inspir...

A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.

The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials sai...

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The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.

Inadvertently killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would no longer be considered illegal under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act

In a meeting with mayors from around the globe, Mamdani argued that the left must fix everyday problems—or the right will find someone to scapegoat for them.

Conservatives long promoted a politics of sexual prohibition. Now such morals have been shed in favor of male domination

Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...

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, ...

A union representing 200,000 postal workers said the restrictions "will inevitably grind the operation of the postal system to a halt."

The president’s son-in-law is once again at the center of an international business deal that will require administration approval

This morning, a headline in the Guardian read: “RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate.” The story by Michelle R.

In his new book, congressman Jared Huffman argues that theocratic insurgency has only grown more powerful after Donald Trump returned to the White House

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The chief justice’s order turns the president’s illegal ballroom construction project into a fait accompli.

Longtime Stars and Stripes publisher Max D. Lederer Jr. has announced his retirement. The development comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon seeks to exert editorial control over the milit...

There doesn’t seem to be any official time limit on forever wars, but you definitely know one when you see it.

The decision would give new powers and federal credibility to a venture in which the president and his family retain a substantial financial interest.

US president credits himself with lowest drug prices in 60 years, when article says drop is more likely due to Biden

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three...

We're getting a stark reminder of what happens when you gut a public-health system.

The administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progress

We’re seeing America wake up to the tyranny that’s engulfed us

Republicans are trying to scapegoat the infectious disease expert, even as they have gutted healthcare amid outbreaks of measles, cyclosporiasis and Ebola

Cornyn and Tillis disgrace themselves

Ariel Edwards-Levy of CNN reported today that a new CNN poll conducted by the public opinion research firm SSRS found that 70% of adult Americans disapprove of the way President Donald J.

Nonstop blunders further erode our international standing

Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire

All Trump can do is lie

Climate change has made a repeat of this year's historic low snowpack 14 times more likely, Colorado School of Mines researchers say

Observers are noting that the reflecting pool fiasco, in which Trump created the idea there was an emergency, ignored experts, bypassed normal procedures to give a wildly inflated contract to a crony,...