A Homecoming Shadowed by History While millions of Americans this summer are flocking to Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, and Mount Vernon to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary, a caravan of 52 Eastern Shawnee citizens made a profoundly different kind…
Hundreds of protesters took to Venice’s waterways on Friday to confront a symbol of plutocratic diplomacy: a 384-foot superyacht belonging to Tilman Fertitta, the billionaire restaurateur and casino owner whom Donald Trump appointed U.S. Ambassador to Italy. The demonstration briefly…
President Donald Trump used a primetime televised address on Thursday night to advance a series of unfounded claims about the integrity of American elections, asserting without evidence that the United States faces catastrophic vulnerabilities in its electoral system. The speech…
What is happening, and why does it matter right now? The Department of Homeland Security has launched an investigation into a sprawling network of scammers who prey on immigrants caught up in the United States’ increasingly punishing immigration system. Complaints…
A Senator’s Ultimatum and What It Reveals About the Democratic Party’s Fault Lines Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has issued a pointed ultimatum: if the Democratic Party formally becomes what he calls “the anti-Israel party,” he will walk. The declaration, made…
New Jersey’s Democratic-led state government refused to participate in President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair, joining a broad coalition of mostly Democratic states in declining to send an official exhibit to the Freedom 250 event on the National Mall…
A Three-Minute Wait That Changed the Game Erling Haaland has never been shy about speaking his mind, and on Thursday he turned his attention to one of football’s most contentious ongoing debates: the role of VAR in disrupting the natural…
What just happened in Maryland? On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a seven-page letter to Maryland’s state Elections Administrator, Jared DeMarinis, threatening him with criminal charges including criminal conspiracy and civil rights violations. The letter, signed by Harmeet…
President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned a group of western Michigan businesses and individuals who were convicted of systematically disabling emissions controls on hundreds of semi-trucks — framing a straightforward environmental enforcement case as political persecution by the Biden administration.…
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long regarded as the backbone of American public health infrastructure, is facing what former insiders describe as a systematic erosion of its scientific mission under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Dr. Debra…