Pollsters approach this year’s midterm elections dogged by high-profile misfires in recent elections while facing challenges from brash rivals intent on reshaping the landscape of political forecasts.

There are no guarantees that polling’s troubles – and persistent popular skepticism about the dependability of election polls –...Read more

President Donald Trump loves a good pardon. His generosity is so well known, in fact, that an industry of lobbyists, lawyers and other insiders has reportedly sprung up to facilitate clemency for wealthy criminals. Clemency, meaning mercy or leniency, lets the president reduce the punishment for, or even forgive, federal crimes.

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Here is one for the annals of editorials we never thought we would need to write: The president of the United States should not ban established and respected news outlets from reporting on his daily doings.

But, in fact, we do.

If Donald Trump won’t listen to this reason, those with thicker skin around said president should gang up on the ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his critics agree on one thing: The Pentagon is in urgent need of transformation. The change he’s pursuing, however, is endangering that vital mission.

Hegseth has led an unprecedented purge of the military’s top ranks, firing or driving out at least 20 generals, admirals and civilian defense leaders, ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s ever-cruel administration is wrongly trying to put up even more roadblocks to block legal immigrants from getting green cards and a coalition of states and cities, led by New York in the persons of Attorney General Tish James and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is correctly fighting back.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With the deadline for mailing out millions of California ballots nearing, Los Angeles County's top election official welcomed the U.S. Postal Service's recent assurance that it will process those ballots as normal — not under the untested new vetting system backed by President Donald Trump and rejected as unworkable by the U.S....Read more

WASHINGTON — Key lawmakers are pushing back after reports revealed that the Trump administration is seeking even greater control over the National Institutes of Health grantmaking process.

The effort, first reported by The Washington Post, includes potentially issuing an executive order or White House review of grants to weed out research ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday headed into a week full of high-stake meetings with world leaders after spending a 72-hour period banning reporters from the White House, mulling whether it was time to “blow ... up” Iran, and proposing to house military drones and snipers in his triumphal arch in the nation’s capital.

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NEW YORK — Mayor Mamdani and President Trump said Monday they’d advance a plan to build housing at Sunnyside Yards after meeting at Gracie Mansion, although they didn’t give any specific commitments.

Mamdani said they also spoke about “affordability,” the importance of the New York Police Department and the president’s decision to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — New York Republican Mike Lawler, one of the most vulnerable members of the House, picked up a notable endorsement Monday from retiring Democratic Rep. Jared Golden of Maine.

In an op-ed for The Journal News, Golden pointed to the pair’s work on several bills, including one that would extend a pause on federal lobster ...Read more

Deepening the news media's clashes with President Donald Trump, CNN, MS NOW and Politico are headed to court to challenge the constitutionality of the president's order to ban the three news organizations from the White House.

The three outlets filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., asking for a temporary restraining...Read more

WASHINGTON — After dishing out more domestic discord this month, President Donald Trump this week will pivot hard to foreign affairs, putting his controversial artificial intelligence and Iran policies in the spotlight as the Senate looks to pass a college sports bill he has backed.

The president heads to New York City on Monday for meetings ...Read more

The president is going after the press again.

On Sept. 19, 2026, journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were denied access to the White House after President Donald Trump revoked their credentials, citing “their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” On social media, Trump posted, “Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Financial Services Chairman French Hill, R-Ark., often calls for easing regulatory burdens on community banks. Now he and a home-state Senate colleague are turning their attention to small investment brokers handling clients’ trades and dealers trading on their own behalf.

Hill and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., have drafted ...Read more

Chancellor Friedrich Merz reinforced his message that he’ll see through his reform agenda as Germany’s leader after his Christian Democratic Union crashed out of a regional parliament for the first time in the country’s post-World War II history.

The election debacle in the Baltic coast state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — where ...Read more

“Better dead than red.”

Cold War conservatives used to say that, and they meant it: Better to suffer nuclear annihilation, they believed, than endure a “red” victory. And by “red” they meant anyone on the left of the political spectrum – from the Soviet communists to their “fellow travelers” in the U.S.

It’...Read more

CNN, MS NOW and Politico are headed to court to challenge the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's order to ban the three news organizations from the White House.

The three outlets announced Monday they are jointly filing a lawsuit in U.S. Federal Court in Washington, D.C. asking for a temporary restraining order that restores their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate returns Tuesday, and with the House already on recess until after the midterms, the big question might be: How long will senators stay in town?

The Senate is also scheduled to be in session next week before departing for election season, unless GOP leaders decide to cut it short like House leadership did. In the ...Read more

Russia’s ruling party is set to take more than three-quarters of seats in parliamentary elections that were tightly managed by the Kremlin to demonstrate support for President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine.

United Russia got 57.8% backing for 355 of the 450 seats in the State Duma, as the lower house of parliament is known, with 95% ...Read more