Since 2016, when Donald Trump shattered the Democrats’ blue wall by winning working-class voters across the Midwest, a cottage industry has sprung up on the left dedicated to answering a single question: How can Democrats win back the working class?

The answers come in different forms. Sometimes it is veteran Vermont Sen. Bernie ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida lawmakers today are taking up a modified version of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plam to enact a massive property tax cut that would radically overhaul how local governments raise and spend money.

The proposal would ask voters in November if they want to provide up to a $250,000 exemption on non-school homesteaded ...Read more

President Donald Trump is still optimistic the U.S. can reach an interim peace deal with Iran soon, after the Islamic Republic threatened to suspend talks because of Israel’s escalating attacks in Lebanon.

“I think you’re talking about over the next week,” Trump said to ABC News late on Monday, referring to a memorandum of understanding...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis has moved to appeal a Denver court’s order that prohibited him from telling state employees to comply with a federal immigration subpoena — his latest attempt to turn over information about the sponsors of undocumented children.

Polis’ attorneys filed the notice with the Colorado Court of Appeals last week, ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis vetoed a bipartisan bill requiring Colorado’s future governors to be more transparent in how they seek to shape legislation, rejecting a measure that lawmakers said was inspired by Polis’ own approach to working in the Capitol.

In his veto letter Friday, the term-limited Polis argued that signing Senate Bill 147 ...Read more

NEW YORK — City council leaders are pushing for an $4.5 million in city budget money to fund a report about 9/11 toxins — and to finally determine when city officials first learned air quality at Ground Zero was dangerous.

The elected officials made the funding request ahead of a council Oversight and Investigations Executive Budget ...Read more

George Washington knew his forces could not win the American Revolutionary War without some measure of sea power. “It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day,” he later wrote in a letter, “that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it everything honorable and glorious.”

The ...Read more

During a Washington Nationals baseball game on May 17, 2026, three people unfurled a large banner from the upper deck of Nationals Park displaying a link to a white nationalist website.

The website, warning of the replacement of whites by people of color, called for the deportation of 100 million people from the United States.

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Imagine the following scenarios:

A surgeon prepares to amputate a patient’s foot to save his life, but the patient refuses the procedure. His decline in thinking and memory raises doubts about his ability to consent, and he has no family or friends to help with the decision.

A 17-year-old declines a liver transplant, while ...Read more

Every year in March, tens of thousands of Americans take to the streets – and bars – to celebrate St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. Similarly, Mexican Americans celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico’s patron saint, in December.

But did you know that the U.S. has its own patron saint? Nearly 200 years ago, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES – Their names were on the ballot, but several candidates in Tuesday's primary election were surprised to learn that they couldn't vote — even for themselves — at polling places in person this week.

A new state law keeps the names and contact information of political candidates confidential — and thus off the voter rolls that...Read more

A Kenyan high court instructed the authorities to disclose details of an agreement with the U.S. government to establish an Ebola quarantine facility in the East African nation.

Judge Patricia Nyaundi ordered the publication of the “full terms of any agreement, memorandum, arrangement or negotiations relating to the proposed facility,” ...Read more

President Donald Trump is still optimistic the U.S. can reach an interim peace deal with Iran soon, after the Islamic Republic threatened to suspend talks because of Israel’s escalating attacks in Lebanon.

“I think you’re talking about over the next week,” Trump said to ABC News late on Monday, referring to a memorandum of understanding...Read more

Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as they grapple with federal Medicaid cuts and the expiration of federal subsidies that helped people buy Obamacare plans.

Under federal law, immigrants who are in the country illegally are not eligible for ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Mikayla Pellegrene teaches on the top floor of Annunciation Catholic School in southwest Minneapolis. Her fifth-grade classroom is filled with natural light, comfy chairs and the heavy presence of one empty desk. All school year, her kids have held onto reminders of Harper Moyski, the friend they lost.

Teachers here have spent ...Read more

Hearing backlash from residents, cities and counties across the country in recent weeks have blocked planned data centers amid concerns over rising electricity prices and environmental harms.

The local actions come as state lawmakers also are looking to limit or repeal the incentives for the centers, which are sprawling campuses of computer ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The October sun was beginning to set when Caldwell Police Sgt. Andrew Heitzman and his officers heard a barrage of gunfire on the other end of a 911 call. A witness said a man wielding two guns had just threatened them. Heitzman, already in a patrol car, was four blocks away from the Freeport Street address.

Arriving on the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to slash property taxes on Floridians’ primary homes threatens to hammer bedroom communities across the state.

Orange County cities and towns like Belle Isle, Winter Garden, Oakland and Ocoee would stand to lose between 25% and 33% of their total property tax collections if the plan to eventually ...Read more