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Wondering why so many things seem to have been going wrong this year, from contaminated lettuce to measles outbreaks to air-traffic-control-related flight cancellations? The reduction in federal government capacity caused ...Read more

I favor higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. But I worry that California’s proposed tax on billionaires will inflict lasting damage on the economy and undermine the state’s status as a global home for innovation.

A ...Read more

Just four days before she died, Dolly Parton said she was being treated for health problems that she "didn't pay attention to when I was watching over Carl." She was talking about the years she spent caring for her ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Almost every midterm election year, the question of whether Florida’s gubernatorial candidates debate each other on stage is, well, up for debate.

So far, 2026 is no different. With no televised debates ...Read more

President Donald Trump declared Friday that he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House “effective immediately,” an extraordinary escalation in his ongoing feud with the news media.

The action marks ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — One of the candidates running in the race for Idaho’s 1st Congressional District had “hundreds of images” of child pornography, court records showed, and he entered a plea deal in his criminal case. ...Read more

Dan Driscoll resigned as secretary of the Army on Aug. 31, 2026. His departure leaves the Army without a Senate-confirmed civilian leader six months into the war with Iran, its busiest period since the wars in Iraq and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has donated $300,000 to New York State Democrats and plans to campaign for Democrats in upstate New York ahead of the coming congressional midterm elections.

The progressive NYC ...Read more

When it came to how I was gonna die, I split my bet. I put some money on cancer because it's got good odds. I also got money down on civil war because there's a lot of buzz about civil war. That kind of thing will move ...Read more

Anthropic PBC researcher Jacob Coxon quit last week and posted on social media that it was because “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Evan Hubinger, who leads...Read more

President Donald Trump won a surprising number of Gen Z voters in 2024, with a particularly strong performance among young men. Although Kamala Harris still won a majority of the 18-29 age cohort, Trump received the ...Read more

When police in Salem, Ohio, received a call for assistance for an injured cat, they couldn’t have been prepared for what they found. He had been shot with a crossbow, lost the use of his legs and, with the bolt still ...Read more

Heard the latest? President Donald Trump, after deciding that Lake Ontario will henceforth be known as Lake America, has floated the idea that New Mexico should be renamed New America. This continues a trend that began on ...Read more

It used to be conservatives who wanted to tread carefully with new things. These days, it’s progressives sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence. And I’m not just talking about the risk of human extinction.

Two...Read more

Donald Trump Jr. has a lot more in common with his dad than just a name, sharing the president's penchant for shady dealings and for kleptocratic Russians. Sometimes the two proclivities go together. That was the case in ...Read more

On the Sunday evening of Labor Day weekend, after a delightful dinner with close friends, I tripped over one of those ubiquitous electric rent-a-scooters. I went down hard, landing on my knee and arm, though luckily not ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- How many of us are lucky enough in life to find ourselves exactly where we belong?

Vice President JD Vance is one lucky guy. This administration is a legit three-ring circus, where President Donald Trump ...Read more

This election is a contest to see which party can do its best to lose. Looking forward from mid-September, President Donald Trump's Republicans seem to be well ahead at this. But the Resistance (or don't they call ...Read more