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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) struck a philosophical tone in a recent social media post following his major loss to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Lone Star State’s Republican primary runoff.
One of the best things about the end of a president’s term in office is supposed to be that we can stop pretending that we care about what their spouse has to say. With no monarchy — thank goodness — for some reason, here in the United States we instead nurture our bizarre penchant for celebrity by treating the people politicians happen to sleep with as somehow important.
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha blasted former first lady Jill Biden for allegedly covering up concerns over the health of former President Joe Biden after a 2024 debate with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The Russian government’s most notorious troll is leaning into the recent bombing of a Romanian apartment building after a drone intended to detonate in Ukraine drifted off course.
Welcome to Friday’s Washington Secrets, which returns after a short break. Have we missed anything? Today, we run the rule over Donald Trump’s week with our two political analysts. And we congratulate Axios reporter Barak Ravid for running his “Middle East peace deal is close” story again.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rescinding rules imposed under the Biden administration that mandate that public companies report their carbon emissions and climate change-related risks.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled his solution to New York City’s housing crisis, a nod to his signature campaign promise to boost Gotham’s housing supply.
A Kenyan court on Friday temporarily blocked the opening of a new Ebola quarantine center for U.S. nationals on the same day the facility was set to open.
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Justice Department‘s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund” aimed at compensating allies of President Donald Trump and others who say they were politically targeted by the DOJ during the Biden administration.
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
NATO member Romania on Friday declared Russia “persona non grata,” or unwelcome, after a Russian drone hit an apartment building in Galati, injuring a mother and child.
Some of us haven’t yet finished wishing Barack Obama would just go away. A decade after leaving the Oval Office, the former president still hovers over our politics issuing sanctimonious tweets in support of dishonest causes, such as the Democrats’ botched gerrymander in Virginia.
It’s an age-old question: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? This year’s midterm elections may provide the political world’s answer.
Comedian Ron White, who famously smoked cigarettes and drank scotch during his sets, used to tell a joke about vegetarians.
American taxpayers fund the United Nations. American diplomats built it. This week, the Geneva-based group UN Watch released the most thorough accounting yet of who actually pays the salaries and shapes the verdicts of the U.N.’s human rights enforcers. The short answer: not the United States.
President Donald Trump said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single voter. The press called it hyperbole. His opponents called it proof of insanity. His supporters called it Tuesday.
Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) did something very unusual last week. When Polis granted Tina Peters’s clemency petition, allowing her to leave prison years ahead of her scheduled release date, there was no political or personal benefit to the governor.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) has had a rough few months. After telling voters that she would not move to redraw the Commonwealth’s congressional district lines, she won a decisive victory — then immediately went back on her word. The very first bill she signed into law as chief executive was to advance her party’s unconstitutional gerrymandering referendum.
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to cap “A” grades in undergraduate courses at roughly 20 percent of enrollment beginning in fall 2027. Nearly 70 percent of voting faculty backed the measure. It’s one of the most aggressive reversals of grade inflation in modern American higher education.
In 1865, British lawmakers passed the “Red Flag Act,” requiring a man carrying a red flag to walk in front of every horseless carriage. The horse-and-buggy economy feared the emerging steam-powered automobile industry, so the future was legally forced to move at walking speed.
