Politics

Democratic leaders want an affordability debate on AI. Critics say they’re ducking the real fight.

House Democrats are heading into the midterms with a pocketbook-focused message on artificial intelligence — one narrowly centered on the energy costs of data centers, but far milder than the popul...

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Tuning out: Why many Americans are sick of the news – especially Trump news

We are all drowning in polls. Seems like there's a survey for everything under the sun: Where does Gen Z get its news? Are you worried about the economy? What do you think of the White House ballro...

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Republicans see high-risk plans as the future of health insurance

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have switched to health insurance that covers a lot less of their care this year.Republicans hope a lot more will follow them.The shift since January was driven b...

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Pirro confident armed man at WHCD targeted Trump

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro on Sunday appeared confident that the Justice Department will be able to prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the armed man at the White House Correspondents' Dinner w...

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Trump says US will help ‘'free up' ships in Strait of Hormuz

President Donald Trump said Sunday the U.S. will help free some ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz amid the U.S. and Israel’s ongoing war with Iran.Trump said in a social media post that several c...

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Recent Books on the Constitution

Each fall, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005. At that time, because I tend to read what relates directl...

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Something’s off about “Animal Farm”

It may seem like years in the past at this point, but it was only three little months ago that the world got itself worked into a lather over Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights.” The crux of the ...

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Medicaid work requirements give red states a chance to turn back clock

Voters in seven states bucked their conservative leaders to expand Medicaid at the ballot box.Now officials in six of them are deploying tactics to make the upcoming implementation of work requirem...

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FIFA has met its match in the Garden State

NEWARK, New Jersey — FIFA has deftly navigated Argentina’s military dictators, Russia’s oligarchs and Qatar’s royal family to get what it wants at previous World Cups. Soccer’s powerful governing b...

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Poll: Americans uneasy with AI, crypto even as they spend big on midterms

Deep-pocketed political groups tied to artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency are rapidly reshaping the midterm money landscape — but many Americans are uneasy with the industries behind the sp...

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Kamala Harris bought a Malibu home. Her neighbors think that means something.

LOS ANGELES — Kamala Harris’ new $8.15 million Malibu home sits on a hill overlooking bougainvillea-dusted streets that sweep down toward the surf — a secluded idyll in a neighborhood of defensive ...

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The new surgeon general nominee has a MAHA problem

Leaders in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement are outraged over President Donald Trump’s surgeon general nominee switch.Since Trump announced on Thursday that Nicole Saphie...

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Spirit Airlines shuts down after rescue talks with White House fall through

Spirit Airlines is shutting down, the low-budget carrier announced on social media Saturday morning, after last-minute negotiations on a $500 million rescue plan with the Trump administration fell ...

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Data centers used to be a prize. States are having second thoughts.

Politicians used to compete to lure data centers to their states. They're starting to reconsider.Tempted by promises of more jobs, tax revenue and the chance to be on the cutting edge of technology...

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Drugmaker files emergency appeal to restore abortion pill access

A company that makes the abortion drug mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to hit pause on Friday’s lower court ruling that cut off telemedicine access to the pills nationwide, includi...

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‘A two-edge sword’: Former top ICE official’s campaign roils battleground district

Republicans in Ohio are worried that a former administration official who helped oversee President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration tactics could cost them a chance to flip a battleground Hous...

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Democrats’ Hasan Piker problem is a boon for Fox News

There are many strange spectacles in modern American politics, but few are more frustrating to watch than a major political party tying itself in knots over a Twitch streamer in the middle of a war...

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Trump picked a fight with the Pope: The one person he can’t fire, can’t outbid, and can’t outlast

Trump’s version of the American Dream says the winners are being stolen from: by immigrants and globalists, and by institutions that no longer serve the people who built them. His opponents mostly ...

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Heather Cox Richardson grades America

American flags flying near the US Capitol Building on March 10, 2026. | Al Drago/Getty Images How would you grade America’s first 250 years? That’s the question I posed to histori...

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Poll: GOP voters skeptical of AI as Trump steams ahead

President Donald Trump is pushing to deregulate the artificial intelligence industry and make it easier for the technology to develop rapidly. His voters are not fully on board.New results from The...

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Cuban Americans have been big Trump backers. His Cuba policy may change that.

MIAMI — Florida’s politically influential Cuban American community is pressuring President Donald Trump to fully oust Cuba’s communist leadership as the Trump administration looks willing to settle...

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