A guide for the Democrats’ coming congressional majority

Millions of taxpayer dollars have already been spent on President Donald Trump’s hagiographic ads, according to estimates by a leading political ad-tracking firm. And a total of $20 million has been a...

This coming Monday — Oct. 5 — is the last day for Kentuckians to register to vote ahead of the November general election.

The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.

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Democrats amplified statements from America.gov that frequently contradict the president on tariffs, election fraud and other topics.

UK isn’t violating open records law by rejecting the requests, but one lawyer says it’s troublesome that the public university’s partnership allows records to be concealed.

The former special counsel testified he would prosecute anyone, regardless of political party, based on the evidence he found about Donald Trump.

The overwhelming 77-22 vote to pass the legislation is Congress’ strongest effort yet to set national regulations governing payments to college athletes for their names, images and likenesses and how ...

A timely reminder of where hedge fund ownership is leading

With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.

It has become routine for Trump to spend the weekend posting wildly on social media, and this weekend was no exception.

A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.

ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...

The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.

President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.

Russian occupation authorities are doing everything possible to make Ukrainian lands unrecoverable.

Kowtowing to tyrants makes him think he’s strong.

For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

Attorney General Russell Coleman found the University of Kentucky to be in violation of Kentucky’s open records law in three different cases since August

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The National Book Awards longlists are a study in tedious political orthodoxy.

Lenders don’t trust the United States anymore.

CNN won’t be able to join President Trump on a Saturday trip to Tennessee. He had banned CNN and two other news outlets from the White House, but a court order on Thursday restored their access.

The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.

Despite increasing political anxiety over Iran war, senators narrowly rejected a war powers resolution.

I was hired to fill a gap in local news coverage. Seven years later, that gap is widening again.

The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea.

The US president has moved fast to create the conditions for an authoritarian regime. America can fight back, but is running out of time, explains world affairs editor Sam Kiley

Soldiers want to tell their stories, and we need to hear them.

The Justice Department lawyer who signed the department's legal filing in response to a lawsuit over its press ban once admired Adolf Hitler.

A detailed look at the $43.6 billion the Pentagon has spent so far.

When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

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The president is increasingly invoking the rationale while facing legal challenges to his plans, even in more curious cases like his triumphal arch, which he says will now include snipers and drones.

Nearly two years ago, I wrote in this publication that the Kentucky General Assembly’s faith in income tax rate cuts as a vehicle for generating revenue was a mirage.

The railroads were once the octopus that A.I. is now.

The “Anti-Publicity & Propaganda Rider,” explained

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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The circuit court ruling injects even more confusion into a year-long battle over which map the state will use for the general election.

Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.

A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.

The president seems driven chiefly by the sense that A.I. is the way to economic growth, and nothing can be allowed to stand in its way.

MS NOW says its journalists were denied access to the White House grounds Saturday morning. This comes a day after President Donald Trump announced he would ban the network and other outlets from the ...