The choice they're letting you make
58 pieces in the last 30 days
A First Circuit panel upheld a lower court injunction Sunday, stopping the federal government from rewriting mail-in voting rules ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections.
The German Chancellor staged a bold reorganization of power to silence his critics, which worked perfectly, except for the part where it created more critics.
Mark McAfee runs the largest raw-milk operation in America, and ProPublica caught him on tape explaining why he thinks the federal government's recall authority is mostly a nuisance he has learned to live with.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass enters her reelection campaign with twin crises bearing down: a surging homeless population and sustained public fury over the January Palisades Fire.
Cornyn and Tillis, architects of the partisan confirmation era they inherited, are expressing reservations about a nominee their own party's procedural legacy made possible.
The president attempted stand-up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, recognized mid-set that it wasn't working, and pivoted to jokes about the jokes not working.
Stacy Garrity has drawn income from the same drilling industry that left towns like Dimock, Pennsylvania arguing over whether the tap water was safe to drink — and now that money is shaping a race for governor.
President Trump is ramping up attacks on Senate Majority Leader John Thune, but Republican senators are standing by their leader and showing no sign of bending to White House pressure.
Elder Chavez arrived in the United States alone at fourteen, fleeing Honduras; a routine traffic stop earlier this year placed his Special Immigrant Juvenile status in jeopardy.
European Union regulators ruled Thursday that Google illegally weaponized its search monopoly to undercut rivals, a decision set to deepen trans-Atlantic trade friction.
Republicans enter the fall with a fat committee advantage, but Democratic candidates are closing the gap dollar by dollar — and the people those dollars were meant to reach are still waiting on the porch.
The Defense Secretary's Tuesday appearance before lawmakers to defend the Iran war funding request turned into one of the more painful Hill performances of the year.
Weekend combat deaths and newly reported undisclosed injuries have White House allies warning the conflict is spiraling beyond any fragile ceasefire the administration claimed to have secured.
The President has announced a 50% tariff on Canadian goods, which is either a trade policy or a hostage negotiation — and Canada does not appear to have received the ransom note.
Both parties are spending hard on Michigan's 2026 races, but the dollar that actually matters is the one leaving Darnell Okafor's checking account every month to keep the lights on in Flint.
Attorneys representing President Donald Trump and his business empire face high-stakes hearings in Florida this week following two significant recent defeats in the litigation wave.
The Trump administration has quietly wound down corporate criminal prosecutions, delivering the lenient enforcement environment its largest backers paid handsomely to request — and will now operate inside.
Vice President JD Vance publicly embraced claims tying convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to senior Israeli intelligence figures, deepening a fault line inside the Republican coalition.
With legal prediction markets now accessible on phones, Washington's information economy has acquired a price ticker — and the people nearest the news are aware of the spread.
The Defence Department has mandated annual testosterone screening for all service members past thirty years of age, a measure the medical profession regards as unlikely to advance the art of war by any measurable degree.
California legislators are moving to regulate commissary pricing at ICE detention facilities, where records show a box of tampons retails for $20 and a packet of instant coffee fetches $18.75.
Federal immigration enforcement lowered its hiring standards to expand its ranks; a man is now dead in Maine, and the agent involved had a documented record of prior violence.
The vice president's recreational travel — including helicopter-ferried golf lessons — has generated internal friction at the Secret Service over staffing costs and logistics, according to reporting published July 16.
While campaign money circles at the top, a Fort Worth line worker named Rosa Delgado does the math on what her paycheck no longer covers — and the numbers don't lie.
A federal watchdog report clears DOGE of improper system access while noting the agency erased the records that would have confirmed whether that finding is true.
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark announced she would support cutting off aid to Israel, fracturing Democratic leadership at a moment the party could least afford the optics.
Hundreds of millions in tech money is moving through campaign accounts right now, and a House Democrat is asking his own party to look at whose hands it is leaving — and whose it never reaches.
The South Carolina congresswoman says her public split with the president on the Epstein Files Transparency Act may have cost her the governor's race — and possibly her entire political future.
Lindsey Graham spent a career trading every fixed position for a seat at the table, and the table has now been cleared — with Graham still seated at it.
The president announced on social media that Iranian vessels are barred from the waterway and that eligible cargo transiting it will be assessed a 20 percent toll by the United States.
A named agency, a named hand, and one revenue agent in Kansas City who showed up Monday morning to a locked-out log-in and a buyout offer she never asked for.
Rep. Nancy Mace moved within days of Sen. Lindsey Graham's sudden death to signal interest in the open South Carolina seat, positioning herself at the front of what observers expect to be a crowded Republican primary.
Officials absent since the war returned to public view during state funeral rites for the slain supreme leader, as Tehran's stance toward the United States hardened into open assertion.
While the world turned on its usual axis, the White House grounds were reshaped to accommodate preferences that exist at the scale of one man's mood.
President Trump said Thursday the ceasefire with Iran is finished, even as Tehran pressed Washington to keep diplomatic channels open and negotiations ongoing.
Oil prices have steadied, but refined fuel costs keep climbing — because the margin between crude and diesel is now set by war rooms and trading desks, not by what comes out of the ground.
The Democratic small-dollar fundraising platform posted its biggest quarter ever in Q2 2026, a signal of donor intensity ahead of what forecasters expect to be the most expensive midterm cycle in American history.
A House Republican faced a fuming crowd in Bellevue this week, a reception the Party notes is the entirely predictable output of a platform the congressman helped sustain.
David Streever sent a strongly worded message to Immigration and Customs Enforcement; within days, agents were at his home and waiting outside his hotel.
He's being positioned as the stable, serious alternative to Trump for 2028 — so why does JD Vance keep making headlines for all the wrong reasons?
U.S. allies arriving in Ankara are bracing for a replay of familiar pressure tactics, with President Trump's frustration over Iran now spilling directly into questions about whether America will keep its Article 5 obligations.
A cryptocurrency analytics report puts the retail loss at $3.8 billion on a single memecoin — here is what that number looks like from the bottom of it.
Reform UK's Nigel Farage — a man who has never knowingly missed a camera — has stepped back from public life during the leadership interregnum, and Westminster is noticing.
Coordinated strikes across Crimea and occupied territories severed power infrastructure over two days, compounding an existing energy crisis across the Black Sea peninsula.
The new acting director of national intelligence moved against career intelligence staff on Thursday, with at least one official describing the situation anonymously over fears of professional reprisal.
Axios called it the most lucrative presidency in American history, and now minority Democrats intend to find out exactly what that number is — one document request at a time.
European maritime powers, surveying the wreckage of a brief and costly war, have concluded that fees levied upon passage through the Strait of Hormuz are not an outrage to be resisted but a cost of trade to be absorbed.
Justice Samuel Alito led a dissent pushing to gut Fourteenth Amendment birthright protections, but the effort fell short — and conservative anger over the outcome has not cooled.
The president took his first flight aboard a Boeing 747-8 luxury aircraft donated by the Qatari government, a $400 million transaction that has drawn scrutiny from multiple directions.
Washington is expected to formally announce it will not extend the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a move that could dismantle one of the world's largest trading blocs after three-way negotiations broke down.
When Trump signed an order erasing birthright citizenship, a specific child in a specific hospital was already breathing American air — and the Supreme Court had to decide what that meant.
The Supreme Court left Mississippi's three-day absentee grace period intact, handing Republicans a procedural defeat — though the White House is already signaling the legal calendar is far from full.
A coalition of Democrat-led states filed suit against the Trump administration Sunday, arguing its Medicaid work-requirement rules set exemptions for sick enrollees so narrow they violate federal administrative law.
The Defense Policy Board has 15 new members after Secretary Pete Hegseth purged the previous panel, installing allies including former trade representative Robert Lighthizer as chair.
A generation of policy and cultural contempt turned the skilled trades into a punchline, and the man holding the pipe still pays the price — even when he sends you a $250 bill.
Mutual strikes have resumed, Trump has threatened on Truth Social to finish what was started, and the fragile ceasefire architecture now rests on conditions neither side has agreed to honor.
New polling shows the president's approval rating rising in step with declining fuel costs following the Iran ceasefire, giving the White House a tangible political lift heading into summer.
Having spent years branding sanctions relief for Iran as a catastrophic capitulation, the former and current president finds himself urging the American public to accept precisely that arrangement.
