How the system now works

People around the president are using their roles to cash in. They learned it by watching him.

The state would be the first to block an industry that has been connected to a deadly lung disease in workers.

“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”

Hegseth is damaging the military and the public’s trust in it.

I want to have a good relationship with her, but I feel overwhelmed by her negativity.

Progressives are focused on the wrong tax loophole.

College is one of the biggest investments you’ll ever make. We built a tool to compare the earnings of all available majors in a federal data set at nearly every school.

Trump is escalating Iran while talking about American cities as collateral damage. History shows just how dramatically an attack can reshape both an election and a presidency…

Kimberly Guilfoyle’s corruption is shocking, damning, and—by now—chump change.

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

The president offered support for the Republican Senate candidate, after earlier grumbles, but focused much of his speech on a defense of his own record.

Angela Paxton is urging Texas voters to support Mr. Paxton’s Senate campaign, even as she is divorcing him and accusing him of adultery. She has political aspirations of her own.

The White House rejected claims that Trump suggested the cities' destruction would be a small price to pay for ending the Iran war.

A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.

And what will cause Trump to leave office?

Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking.

A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.

Shapiro joins Dr. Vin Gupta on Meidas Health as Pennsylvania confronts five measles-associated deaths and a growing fight with RFK Jr. over the federal response.

After a nearly 10-percent increase in 2026, Medicare’s standard Part B premium is projected to cost $209.50 per month in 2027.

Declares a State Disaster Emergency due to an ongoing measles outbreak, effective October 5, 2026, for the entire State of New York until November 4, 2026.

President Donald Trump wants to curtail mail ballots, but with Republicans falling behind in the polls, the president is now urging his supporters to vote in the midterm elections any way they can, in...

The quote circulated online after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Letitia James as a special prosecutor in the Cornell University investigation.

And it’s starting to show.

Trump and his allies in the Capitol have revealed a problem that has been developing for decades.

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.

Historian and On Tyranny author Timothy Snyder tells Ben Meiselas he has never seen a major country surrender so much power so quickly.

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Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...

Plus: Northern Nevada veterans push back against Flippo valor claims in new AFL-CIO ad.

The national AFL-CIO is launching ads targeting the ruby red 2nd Congressional District seat.

2026 Kennedy Center Honors will be held at Washington's Capital One Arena.

A pregnant woman shot dead in a parking lot. What a horrible tragedy. And if you’re the political professionals trying to reelect Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, what a fabulous campaign issue. Lombardo...

The Trump administration may have just signed up your child — and more than 60 million others — for a 530A savings account (if you haven’t already done so).

An enormous pulse of wave energy will soon reach Southern California and continue north, raising sea levels by half a foot and increasing threats from swells and tides.

We examine the arts center’s saga in Washington.

The average 30-year, fixed-rate home loan rose to 7.28 percent, up from 6.34 percent a year ago. More buyers are now turning to adjustable-rate mortgages.

Democratic and Republican governors say they will more aggressively push back on federal overreach regardless of which party controls Washington. Earlier this month, the bipartisan National Governors ...

An oil bust is on the horizon.

My view as a man of faith

The deeper story isn't the $500. It’s what happens to democracy when politicians steeped in pay-to-play politics start treating ordinary citizens like one more constituency to be won over with money…

It doesn’t take super intelligence to realize the GOP is screwed.

The real reason Americans are paying more under Trump Republicans

A new report by the Federal Reserve’s independent inspector general concluded that a nearly $2.5 billion construction project was poorly managed but made no referrals to the U.S. attorney general.

A proposal the administration is preparing comes just as left and right were finding some common ground.

Plus: Trump’s dangerous, reckless embrace of AI.

Good morning.

The attacks on Jack Smith expose something far bigger than one ugly Senate hearing: a collision between personal political loyalty and America’s constitutional system…