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…
What is R. Kelly actually asking for? R. Kelly, the R&B singer convicted of running a years-long criminal enterprise built on the sexual exploitation of women and girls, has formally petitioned President Donald Trump to commute his 31-year federal prison…
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 striking new survey from The Wall Street Journal and NORC Research Center has landed with the weight of a verdict: most Americans believe capitalism is not working, democracy is faltering, and the wealthy have seized a level of power…
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…
Two senior executives of Done Global, a venture-backed telehealth startup that marketed itself as a solution to the ADHD treatment gap, have been sentenced to federal prison after orchestrating one of the largest illegal stimulant distribution schemes in recent memory.…
There is a quiet anxiety running beneath the surface of American financial markets right now, one that the cheerful headlines about falling oil prices have done little to dispel. While consumers welcome relief at the pump and equity traders celebrate…
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…
Senior US military commanders knowingly bypassed warnings that intelligence on Iranian targets was severely out of date, approving strikes — including one that killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers at an elementary school — in a rush to…