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An updated federal report alleges top Minnesota leaders knew about widespread fraud in social services programs but repeatedly failed to stop it — the latest partisan fallout from the ongoing fraud crisis.

The 200-page ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has yet to embark on a robust midterm campaign schedule, and his handful of initial rallies have been far from targeted messages talking up GOP candidates.

In the most recent two ...Read more

NEW YORK — Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso on Monday aggressively accused Assemblywoman Claire Valdez of being “beholden” to Mayor Zohran Mamdani as their Democratic primary battle heats up for New York's ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers passed a bill Monday aimed at preventing future executive branch interference in some legislative branch agencies, a year after President Donald Trump fired the librarian of Congress.

It ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to charge a $100,000 fee for companies seeking to employ foreign workers with an H-1B visa, ruling in part that it ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress face two major tasks this week: wrapping up reconciliation 2.0 and renewing a controversial spy powers authority before it expires Friday.

The House returns with a final sprint to ...Read more

The Trump administration on May 20, 2026, indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro for murder, based on the downing of two planes near the Cuban coastline in 1996 that killed four people.

As a historian of ...Read more

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.

Can kids go to prison? – Artie, age 10, New York City...Read more

More people are talking about the Declaration of Independence now than they likely have for decades, largely because of the festivities, exhibits, historical commemorations and other public events associated with the ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s choice for acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, has proved controversial. Pulte’s lack of background in national security matters has sparked resistance from Democrats on ...Read more

I detest him and everything he does or says. Ditto his despicable aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups.

But it’s possible that someday we’ll look back on this horrendous era and say we ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump amplified baseless claims of election fraud in California early Monday morning, pointing to the most recent Los Angeles mayoral results as alleged evidence of a cheating narrative he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A relentless push by President Donald Trump to reshape Washington‘s cityscape is facing mounting resistance, threatening a slate of transformative monuments intended to cement his legacy in the nation’s...Read more

CHICAGO — Five years after Illinois joined other states in allowing politicians to use campaign funds for childcare, a handful of state lawmakers from Chicago have become some of the nation’s biggest users of laws ...Read more

The votes are still being tallied but the result of Tuesday’s top-two primary election in California seems pretty clear.

Despite an uptick in his performance, hopes for third-place finisher Tom Steyer are fading along ...Read more

Modern societies depend on continuity.

Electric grids are built over decades. Infrastructure systems require long investment cycles. Defense planning depends on sustained procurement and strategic consistency. Climate ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Some students at a racially diverse Twin Cities high school are getting much too used to seeing swastikas.

Since February, someone at Hopkins Senior High School has scrawled slurs and hateful imagery in ...Read more

Until recently, the main threats to kelp and coral reefs were overfishing and pollution. Now it’s our warming seas.

A study carried out by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and ...Read more

California is in the middle of a quiet but high-stakes argument about what it would mean to fix our water system in a hotter, drier century, especially in the age of AI.

Echoes of this argument will resonate in everyone�...Read more