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President Donald Trump demanded that Volodymyr Zelenskyy halt attacks on Russian oil refineries and suggested he should consider stepping aside as Ukraine’s president, escalating a fight centered on securing more diesel ...Read more

“Nobody knows anything,” the screenwriter William Goldman famously said of the movie business. Much the same can be said today for artificial intelligence, a technology that’s moving fast, destination unknown. Unlike...Read more

The swamp may not be drained, but it’s shrinking.

In September, the federal government employed 2.68 million people. That number includes Postal Service employees, but not members of the military. It’s a noticeable ...Read more

I recently went diving off Kawaihae on Hawaii’s Big Island. The water was bathtub warm, about 85 degrees, with an impressive 80 feet of visibility which meant you could see how little of the reef ecosystem was left. The ...Read more

Last month, the annual day celebrating U.S. citizenship came amid deep challenges for our democracy. The Trump administration has launched an all-out assault on the right to vote, threatening to pass into law new ...Read more

The Pentagon’s abrupt withdrawal of a dozen long-range B-1 bombers from a British airbase raises a host of troubling questions. Vice President J.D. Vance said the move was made “out of an abundance of caution” after ...Read more

Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed himself to be callow and immature by insulting the Jews of New York with his smearing of Israel even when he was memorializing the atrocity of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack that slaughtered ...Read more

In President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to bring private universities to heel through policy change in the tax code, the administration is threatening to revoke tax-exempt status from schools that offer targeted ...Read more

More than 50 years after her death, Helen Keller still turns up in artificial intelligence debates. The communication breakthroughs of the American writer, who was deaf and blind, are often cited as evidence that language ...Read more

Last summer I returned to Minnesota after 12 years working in Washington, D.C. I spent much of that time helping cities in North America and Europe build the relationships and civic capacity that allow democracy to endure...Read more

The one thing you can't make when you get old is old friends.

Pam Fleischaker was one of my oldest friends. We met more than 40 years ago as two young political activists. She commuted from Oklahoma City to help run the...Read more

Once again, a Trump administration blow to the H-1B program is rattling the Seattle-area tech workforce.

Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday that the Trump administration would suspend Microsoft from sponsoring ...Read more

WASHINGTON — This week’s release of a U.S. Army investigation into the deadly 2025 air crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is fueling calls for congressional negotiators to default to the Senate’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A key supporter for an age minimum on social media is not giving up hope that such a provision could be included in a potential compromise online safety package after the midterm elections.

Rep. Erin ...Read more

In a social media post Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump accused Somali immigrants of bringing violence to Minnesota and urged residents to “fight back.”

Hours earlier, Republican candidate for governor Lisa ...Read more

The once-enthusiastic MAGA donor who told the Wall Street Journal about Kimberly Guilfoyle’s alleged efforts to hit him up for $100,000 to pay off her American Express bill has shared the reasons he decided to cooperate ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Russian leader Vladimir Putin had agreed to release diesel supplies into the global market, as the administration looks to tame price hikes for the critical fuel.

Trump said Friday in a social ...Read more

The Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions against the International Criminal Court, signaling its determination to cripple the organization on the same day that a former ICC judge won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The ...Read more

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — U.S. Senate candidates Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed clashed repeatedly in an insult-laden, messy Oct. 8 debate rife with constant interruptions, sharp accusations, and even some trash-talking, ...Read more