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Calling for an end to economic inequality and the creeping political power of billionaires, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders joined prominent Minnesota progressives in Rochester on Saturday, May 2, urging people to organize.

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Seventeen candidates are vying for three federal seats in Congress from Idaho in contested Republican and Democratic races in the fast-approaching May 19 primary election.

Incumbent U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, seeks his...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will begin guiding some neutral ships trapped in the Persian Gulf out through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday.

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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey joined calls across the nation urging the Supreme Court to immediately reverse the decision to cut access to mailing the abortion medication mifepristone after an appeals court ruling over ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Rome later this week, according to people familiar with the matter, after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Donald Trump clashed over the Iran war and her ...Read more

The Iran war, which Donald Trump started in February for no good reason and which could flare up again at any moment, broke a streak of easy American military wins. This raises a question for other countries that the U.S. ...Read more

The hype surrounding the psychedelic drug ibogaine reached a fever pitch in April, when President Donald Trump talked up its potential at a White House event promoting increased access to psychedelics. Ibogaine, which ...Read more

Artificial intelligence might be the most transformative technology ever devised. Exactly how its effects will work through the economy is impossible to say, but serious disruption of one kind or another seems likely. ...Read more

“A whole bunch of everything for both, especially going wrong,” said a friend who didn’t want to be named, and declined to give examples. I had gone to our local place and asked people to name one thing they think is...Read more

No amount of advertising money can sell a bad product — or at least, a product that consumers have determined they don’t want (see: New Coke). This time-tested business principle also applies to American politics.

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BOSTON — Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue, fresh off his dominant performance at the MassGOP Convention, is blowing past primary debate challenges to take direct aim at Democratic Gov. Maura Healey.

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U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., hosted a roundtable with Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Mike Duffey and defense industry leaders Friday in Williamsburg, Virginia, as lawmakers gear up for the 2027...Read more

A wise man — possibly Winston Churchill — once said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” And if he’d lived long enough to see President Donald Trump in office, he might have added, “Especially if you can ...Read more

A wise man — possibly Winston Churchill — once said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” And if he’d lived long enough to see President Donald Trump in office, he might have added, “Especially if you can ...Read more

Conservatism is in decline. True, it’s not dead — in 2025, a larger share of Americans described themselves as conservative (35%) than liberal (28%) — but this seven-point difference is the smallest Gallup has ...Read more

If you take the long view, America’s economic outlook is pretty bleak. Like a lot of rich countries, it is overwhelmed by debt it has no plans to reduce. Even more troubling is its aging population, which will reduce ...Read more

Few any longer dispute that America’s public debt is growing unsustainably and that, sooner or later, the task of reining it in will be unavoidable. Oddly, this presumption of inevitability has bred a kind of complacency...Read more

In one respect, the soaring national debt is a lot like the weather. Everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything about it.

Nobody, that is, but Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican.

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It was the 78 year-old two-term Governor against a 41-year-old oyster farmer who has never held office. Chuck Schumer convinced the Governor, Janet Mills, that she had the best chance of defeating Republican incumbent ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia state Rep. Chris Rabb, who is locked in a tight campaign for a seat in Congress, is disavowing a December post on his Instagram account that promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theory about the...Read more