Republicans remain highly patriotic while their party hollows out America’s democratic institutions and their leader flirts ...

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The U.S. federal government shut down on October 1, 2025, after Congress failed to pass a funding bill. Disagreements over Medicaid cuts and health care subsidies were the main points of contention ...

A federal judge issued a scathing rebuke to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian student protesters, finding that his administration had illegally targeted immigrant students for ...

It took 27 drafts and coaching from "Barbie" director Greta Gerwig to perfect former Vice President Kamala Harris' National Democratic Convention speech, Harris revealed in her book "107 Days." Harris ...

In the era of Donald Trump, an era of unmistakably authoritarian threat, Ezra Klein has emerged as a leading voice making the case for practical liberal politics. As a columnist and podcaster for the ...

On Sept. 23, 2025, U.S. First Lady Melania Trump spoke during the United Nations General Assembly to introduce her children's initiative "Fostering the Future Together." Many online claimed part of ...

During a Sept. 23, 2025, speech, U.S. first lady Melania Trump plagiarized the following sentences from writer C.J. Cherryh: “As children, we all played marbles, flew paper airplanes, and ran with a ...

President Donald Trump was joined by his granddaughter — and fellow golf lover — Kai Trump at Friday’s Ryder Cup. The duo showed up to the Bethpage Black golf course in Farmingdale, N.Y., together to ...

It’s been 10 years since a white supremacist shot and killed nine people studying the Bible at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. In a statement that shocked many people, ...