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… US Ambassador to China David Perdue said on Fox that in their recent meeting Trump asked President Xi if China wanted to buy weapons systems from the US: “Trump continues say that we sell arms to ot...

The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.

The Free Press endorsement in Michigan's U.S. Senate race.

On social media and in tabloids, photos from Don Jr. and Bettina Trump’s Bahamas wedding were tightly curated. But sometimes, what — or, who — isn’t pictured is just as important as what is. Let’s go ...

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

The president vacillated but decided on Sunday not to join Saudi Arabia, for now, in joint strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. But he also needs the kingdom’s cooperation in his war against Iran.

Donald Trump is for now. A Brussels bureaucrat is forever.

ICE agents turned up at David Streever's home over a harsh email he sent to an ICE official. Now a court order prevents the federal government from making additional threats against him.

* The Chronicle of Higher Education… Dylan Hembrough was in class when he got the email: He had been reported to the university police by an administrator at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. The surprise email sent Hembrough, the editor in chief of the campus newspaper, the closest he’d been to a panic attack in years. [...]

The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

House Republicans are poised to claim that the midterm elections were stolen from them when they meet on January 3 to decide which Members-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress

Marty Lederman outlines the easiest and most straightforward way for SCOTUS to decide the USPS mail-in ballot case.

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Melinda French Gates joined Olivia Rodrigo at her inaugural Daisy Chain Fields music festival, doubling a $10 million pledge to nonprofits

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Texas becomes a sanctuary state; RFK’s deadly idiocracy; Hegseth ensh*ttifies the Pentagon; the cancer of antisemitism spreads; and Trump sabotages the GOP