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The Jeffrey Epstein story has swallowed the country whole.
The Jeffrey Epstein story has swallowed the country whole.
A veteran aid worker’s warning on what happens next in Gaza.
Ceasefire negotiations falter as Gaza totters on the brink of famine.
Why some Democrats are ready to play dirty over mid-decade redistricting.
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It’s his latest move in an ongoing effort to silence critical news outlets and control the narrative.
The government has had troves of evidence for years.
Why is Columbia paying the Trump administration $200 million?
Turns out only half of the Republican justices want to kill off the Voting Rights Act.
If you’re worried about inflation from Trump’s tariffs already, just wait until fall.
The chaos of Trump’s global health cuts make the human toll near-impossible to calculate. That’s by design.
And why it’s not getting cheaper any time soon.
It’s a Pizzagate/QAnon scandal. It’s a Trump scandal. It’s a Me Too scandal. It has something for every political subculture.
Like much of what Trump touches, the fight over Alina Habba mingles authoritarianism with goonish incompetence.
If the president loses this case, he will go to the Supreme Court to bail him out again.
The House is heading for the door early to avoid an Epstein vote.
What budget cuts mean for wildlife, climate monitoring — and surviving peak tourism.
Senate Republicans are taking an enormous risk with the federal bench right now.
Did the stalwart host finally become too dangerous for late-night?
Fighting in Syria exposes a US-Israel rift.
The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block.
Viral debate videos have become inescapable online.
“A pal is a wonderful thing.”
Climate facts are inconvenient — so Trump is making them disappear.
Americans say they want a third party — but making it happen is tricky.
Congress signs off on Trump’s request to claw back funding.
The president’s hardline message helped him get elected. Now it appears to be backfiring.
And Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say it.
Trump’s DOJ turns its back on police reform.
Trump’s DOJ is going soft on corporate crime.
A former federal prosecutor explains the Trump administration’s bizarre handling of the Epstein Files.
It’s the left vs. the establishment vs. Abundance. Here’s your guide to what’s happening.
The economic logic of deporting undocumented workers doesn’t add up.
And why he’ll get away with it.
The White House wants to send Medicaid recipients to the mines.
The obscure chip policy that could reshape US-China competition.
NATO countries will buy weapons from the US — and deliver them to Ukraine.
And they didn’t even bother to explain themselves.
The end of mandatory shoe removal signals progress on airport security.
“Mowing the grass” didn’t stop October 7. Now it’s going global.
The change reverses decades of federal policy.
A truly scary new revelation about Trump’s effort to circumvent the TikTok ban.
ICE just got its biggest cash infusion in more than two decades. We know how they’re going to spend it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is back in Washington for a third visit.
Trump’s new law is a major change to higher education. Here’s what that means for you.