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According to Department of Justice officials including FBI Director Kash Patel, the indictment of David M. Morens for using his personal email account on official business is all about protecting the sanctity of government...Read more

As a law professor and sometime libertarian, I’m of three minds about news that the prediction-market platform Kalshi has banned three candidates for public office for placing bets on their own races.

My first thought ...Read more

CHICAGO — Independent would-be candidates for a Southwest Side congressional seat are uniting against two targets as they look ahead to November, one a familiar enemy, the other much less so.

President Donald Trump must...Read more

Carbon dioxide is plant food, so you might think pumping the atmosphere full of it would be better for plants. The trouble is that CO2 is also the world’s most prolific greenhouse gas, trapping heat in a way that creates...Read more

I've always been both a small-r republican and an Anglophile, so I looked upon the British monarchy with at least a pinch of smug superiority. The Windsors are revered for nothing more than birth -- not talent, nor ...Read more

You have to be awfully smart to believe something this stupid. In a Manhattan Institute survey of Democratic voters, 46% said they believed it was definitely or probably true that "the assassination attempt against Donald ...Read more

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday vetoed a sweeping election reform bill passed by the Legislature in March, the result of years of negotiations between factions in the House and Senate.

The bill seeks to make ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a bill funding most of the Department of Homeland Security within hours of it clearing the House on Thursday, effectively ending an 11-week partial shutdown.

The bill, which ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- I did not have on my bingo card that a four-day visit to the United States by the King of England would pack such an emotional punch.

It's positively bonkers! The royals must have magical powers. They can ...Read more

Shares in spirits companies rose on Thursday after President Donald Trump announced he is lifting the 10% tariffs on alcohol sales between the United Kingdom and the U.S.

The move came at the behest of King Charles III ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed a short-term extension of a key surveillance power, sending it to the White House just hours before it is set to expire at midnight.

The bill, which would extend Section 702 of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — At long last, a farm bill has cleared the U.S. House of Representatives, but without a provision pushed by crop growers and ethanol producers.

The Republican-crafted legislation passed on Thursday, April 30...Read more

The U.S. Air Force agreed to buy an undisclosed number of interceptor drones from a company backed by President Donald Trump’s sons, according to the firm, deepening the military’s ties to defense contractors linked to...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators will now be barred from trading on prediction markets, after adopting a resolution by unanimous consent Thursday afternoon.

It’s the latest in a flurry of efforts to squash insider trading by ...Read more

The palace intrigue surrounding President Donald Trump’s endorsement in Kentucky’s May Republican U.S. Senate primary has begun.

After many months of a heated race with no hint from the president on whether he’d ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump focused on other matters this week as House Republicans struggled to pass measures related to surveillance powers, agricultural policy and immigration enforcement funding, with former ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A bitterly contested race for an open seat in Congress representing a deep-blue Philadelphia district has become something of a symbol of a broader national debate among Democrats about how far the party ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hot rotisserie chickens could be purchased by families using food stamps under a measure led by a Michigan lawmaker and added Thursday to the latest farm bill to pass the U.S. House.

Current rules for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House cleared a Senate-passed bill funding most of the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, effectively ending an 11-week partial shutdown.

The bill, which the House sent to President Donald ...Read more