The performance and its cost
86 pieces in the last 30 days
Maine's senior senator has now voted on every single Senate question for over two decades, a feat the institution apparently considers more impressive than what she voted for.
The US Senate cleared Donald Trump's immigration funding package early Friday, closing a partial government shutdown after a tight 52-47 roll call split along near-party lines.
Republicans killed a $1.8 billion fund for Trump's allies but left untouched the I.R.S. protections that shield the President himself — a quiet trade with a loud price tag.
Chuck Schumer's motion needs only 50 votes to pass, and a handful of Republicans have signalled they will cross the aisle to get it there.
U.S. Southern Command struck a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people, citing designated terrorist organizations it declined to name.
An 8-1 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts tells two of America's biggest telecoms they have no constitutional right to a jury when the FCC comes calling with a fine.
Zach Lahn beat Rep. Randy Feenstra in the Iowa Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday, marking the first significant statewide primary loss of Trump's 2026 midterm push.
Bill Pulte has never held an intelligence post, never read a FISA brief, and now Democrats say his nomination alone may be enough to kill the program that keeps tabs on foreign adversaries.
George Santos bet real money on whether George Santos would walk through a door — federal investigators, to their credit, found this interesting.
A new federal proposal would permit the administration to suspend grants in health, housing, science, and transportation unless the recipient's purposes align with the prevailing political agenda — a development that merits, I think, some careful examination.
The state says it's illegal for the Trump administration to hand nearly $800 million to a French energy company to walk away from a planned offshore wind project.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune broke publicly with the White House Tuesday, telling reporters the intelligence directorate must not become a political instrument after President Trump named Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence.
The former Federal Reserve chair went public Sunday with a blunt warning that the central bank's independence is under sustained political assault.
When a sitting president's crypto venture pulls in nine figures from foreign buyers and his cabinet confirms the arrangement without blinking, the word for that is not policy — it is tribute.
The upper chamber's GOP caucus is attempting to unify behind a budget package, an anti-weaponization fund, and a White House ballroom — which is three more things than they can currently agree on.
Mayor Ras Baraka imposed a curfew around the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility after days of clashes between protesters and law enforcement turned the surrounding blocks into a rolling standoff.
A confluence of drought, late frost, and the general indifference of the heavens has visited upon the Republic's wheat-fields a shortfall not witnessed in living memory — and the labouring poor shall feel it first.
When the federal government files a motion to remove a judge for attending a dinner, the question worth asking is not about the dinner.
Zohran Mamdani's rent-control rollout is either a radical transformation of urban life or a lease agreement with better branding — and the landlords, remarkably, can't decide which terrifies them more.
A federal judge blocked the White House's move to rename the Kennedy Center and ruled that Trump-appointed board members illegally voted to shutter the venue for renovations.
A methodically planned federal campaign is targeting employment, healthcare, and housing access for noncitizens — including many who hold legal status — with the explicit goal of pressuring departures.
The United Nations has formally added Israeli and Russian security forces to its annual blacklist documenting conflict-related sexual violence, a designation applied for the first time to either party.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says U.S. and European intelligence points to a large-scale Russian attack arriving in the next two days.
A federal judge in Virginia issued a temporary block Thursday preventing the Trump administration from moving money into or out of the $1.8 billion fund until a hearing next month.
The National Mall's big birthday bash for America's 250th is losing acts and taking heat, but organizers say the celebration has nothing to do with party affiliation.
Treasury Secretary Bessent has lent his support to legislation that would place a living head of state upon the currency of the Republic — a departure from custom that invites, at minimum, careful reflection.
A new anti-corruption caucus has arrived in Washington, which is either the bravest act of institutional self-awareness in American history or proof that irony has finally achieved sentience.
American military assets intercepted four one-way attack drones Wednesday and destroyed a ground control station in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas in the latest exchange of fire between the two countries.
When a sitting president refiled a $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal, he did not reach for a pen — he reached for a number large enough to make editors flinch before they assign the story.
The mayor dismissed the reality-TV-adjacent challenger's legal filing with a pointed jab at his online army, calling his backers “AI cartoons” while her supporters, she said, are actual Angelenos.
Attorney General Ken Paxton ousted Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas GOP primary runoff Tuesday as President Trump convened his twelfth Cabinet meeting of his second term with an Iran deal still unresolved.
Mr. O'Leary's Stratos data centre proposal in Utah draws opposition from residents concerned about electricity and water; the investor attributes their concerns not to interest but to foreign intrigue.
Kerry Sheron, whose Escondido house was decorated with Trump flags and signs, was beaten outside the property and died days later from his injuries.
Amazon's founder posted a chart to argue that taxing the ultra-rich solves nothing; a Senate candidate from Maine and a senator from Vermont read it and arrived at a different conclusion entirely.
A Texas congressional hopeful has discovered the perfect defense against antisemitism accusations: the journalist did it, the transcript is lying, and the words themselves have retained counsel.
Tehran says contradictory American statements and Israeli interference are blocking progress on any nuclear agreement, dismissing reports that a deal is close.
When the mere expectation of an accord between the American sovereign and the Persian nation could, in a single Monday morning, diminish the price of West Texas Intermediate crude futures by six and one-tenth parts in a hundred, one is moved to reflect seriously upon the nature of expectation itself as a market force.
The newly installed pontiff used his first encyclical to warn that artificial intelligence poses serious risks to humanity and that regulators are badly behind the curve.
When a sitting senator from your own party says a man doesn't deserve to serve alongside him, that verdict arrives with a specific weight — especially in Texas, where the stakes are a seat John Cornyn has held since 2002.
North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis went public Friday with a blistering comparison of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to fired Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem, saying Noem looks like a five-star recruit by contrast.
The President has assured the nation that diplomacy is proceeding in an orderly and constructive manner, which is why he has personally ordered it to slow down.
When three-fifths of a great commercial nation report themselves unable to purchase their accustomed provisions, the political economist is obliged to set down his other enquiries and attend.
FEC filings show Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick cut the eight-figure check to a Republican super PAC in the weeks before he was called to answer questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
The Trump administration will pause new removals of refugees to the Democratic Republic of Congo amid a widening Ebola crisis, but says it will not bring back detainees already sent there.
A former Republican congresswoman who broke with her own president is now saying out loud what the rest of the party is swallowing whole: a war with Iran could be the pretext that ends the 2028 election.
New polling shows a majority of Americans believe the president is prioritizing immigration over economic concerns, days after Trump said he does not think about the public's financial situation.
The president posted a gleeful response to CBS's decision to end The Late Show, naming rival hosts and predicting a domino effect across network television.
A Congressional Research Service assessment documents the aviation cost of the Iran conflict, including four F-15E strike fighters, one F-35A, and an unspecified number of helicopters and drones.
The sovereign power of the United States requests from its legislature a sum approaching one thousand million dollars to construct a ballroom of ninety thousand square feet, and at least one senator confesses he cannot follow the reasoning.
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin released the party's post-mortem on its 2024 presidential loss Tuesday, distancing himself from the findings while citing the need for transparency.
A self-declared “market integrity watchdog” has launched a six-figure ad campaign against a prediction market, which is itself a bet on whether anyone will notice the irony.
The Georgia firebrand pointed squarely at her colleague's Epstein crusade after Thomas Massie lost his Kentucky primary on Tuesday, calling it the move that sealed his fate.
Two Capitol Police officers filed suit Tuesday to block a Trump administration fund they say rewards participants in the January 6 attack with taxpayer money.
Andrew Giuliani, son of Rudy and a Trump loyalist since the early rallies, has been handed oversight of America's hosting duties for the 2026 FIFA World Cup — the biggest sporting event the country has staged in a generation.
Brian Morrissey stepped down from Treasury's chief legal post days after the Justice Department announced a $1.8 billion settlement fund that could pay convicted January 6 defendants and others claiming Biden-era targeting.
A new programme of duties, imposed in the name of equity between trading nations, has arrested the welcome fall of prices and returned the labouring poor to a familiar affliction.
The president's rating has dropped to its lowest point of his second term, days after he told Americans their economic pain is not driving his Iran diplomacy.
Spencer Pratt is deploying AI-generated political ads in the LA mayoral race, and a former congressman turned Fox host says this will change campaigning forever — which it might, if campaigning needed more of this.
Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury in January, then moved to dismiss it in May — a settlement reportedly in the works, the terms not yet public.
Having won her office on the promise of taxing great fortunes into submission, Mayor Katie Wilson now watches as one of Seattle's most celebrated commercial establishments quietly arranges its affairs in Tennessee.
The Kentucky congressman, targeted by name on Truth Social, responded Sunday by telling reporters the presidential pressure campaign was doing his campaign finance operation a favor.
The Senate's procedural referee struck down a $1 billion provision for a White House ballroom late Saturday, dealing a direct blow to one of President Trump's signature budget priorities.
The Democratic small-dollar machine has agreed to testify about how it vets foreign money — and the agreement itself tells you more than any denial would have.
A Republican bid to route Secret Service cash toward the White House ballroom project has been ruled out of order, stripping the controversial line item from the budget package.
The senator voted to convict a former president on the evidence before him, and on May 16, 2026, Louisiana Republicans finished the sentence he started.
The president went full Truth Social on his own ally Saturday, threatening to yank his endorsement of the Colorado congresswoman as she stumped in Kentucky with the party's most persistent thorn in leadership's side.
The SAVE Act is now a legislative barnacle on two must-pass bills, which is the legislative equivalent of fixing your roof by setting the kitchen on fire.
President Trump unleashed a pair of pointed attacks on Sen. Bill Cassidy via Truth Social, calling the Louisiana Republican a disloyal disaster ahead of a high-stakes Senate primary.
The two-term Republican senator failed to make the runoff in Louisiana's GOP primary, paying the final political price for his 2021 vote to convict Donald Trump at impeachment.
As the President of the United States departs Peking with agreements yet to be weighed, the cost of energy mounts with all the indifference of a tide, and the labouring poor are left to reckon the difference.
From Theresa May to Rishi Sunak, a procession of leaders has been broken by Number Ten — and with Keir Starmer now under pressure, Britain is asking whether the problem is the person or the post.
Miami residents filed suit in the Southern District of Florida alleging that the state's donation of public land for a presidential library violates the Florida Constitution's prohibition on gifts of public property to private entities.
With affordability at a breaking point and a midterm election on the horizon, candidates are discovering that running as a renter — not just for renters — might be the sharpest pitch on the ballot.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth abruptly cancelled a planned deployment of 4,000 U.S. Army soldiers to Poland, a close NATO ally, offering no public rationale for the reversal.
With domestic prices at their highest in three years, the chief magistrate of the United States has publicly stated that the financial condition of his people does not occupy his thoughts — a declaration worth examining with some care.
Nvidia's CEO went from excluded to wheels-up in roughly 48 hours, joining Trump's high-profile trip to China after weeks of coverage over his conspicuous absence from earlier tech summits.
President Trump shared a doctored social media post falsely attributing a $120 million health care fraud accusation to Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, who never said it.
Reports that the White House is weighing a deal to let China park a trillion dollars in American assets — in exchange for loosened security restrictions — have rattled the president's own allies, and for once their alarm is the least alarming thing in the room.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified before a House committee Tuesday as the Pentagon disclosed the Iran military operation has cost American taxpayers $29 billion and counting.
An executive order backing ibogaine and other psychedelic research marks one of the more unexpected policy turns of the current administration, landing somewhere between Silicon Valley wellness culture and veterans' advocacy.
A global study of 1,500 companies across 33 countries finds executive compensation rose sharply in 2025, continuing a trend that surprises approximately no one.
Footage of masked, gowned passengers evacuating a hantavirus-affected cruise ship sent social media into pandemic-flashback mode — but health officials are pushing back hard on the comparison.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has sent Senator Mark Kelly's comments on depleted US weapons stockpiles to Pentagon attorneys, claiming a potential classified disclosure — a charge Kelly flatly denies.
A Virginia court dissolved several Democratic candidacies by dissolving the map they were running on, which raises the interesting question of whether a candidate without a district is still, technically, a candidate.
On Mother's Day 2025, the Trump administration launched Moms.gov — a URL, a tagline, and a studied silence about what it will not say.
The president posted a blunt rejection of Tehran's latest response Sunday as ceasefire talks stall and Strait of Hormuz negotiations show no sign of progress.