Politics

Schengen’s Greatest Failure

In the summer of 1985, representatives from five Western European countries met aboard a riverboat in Schengen, a wine-making village in Luxembourg, to celebrate the removal of checkpoints at their...

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Trump appeals judge's ruling that accused him of manipulating courts in IRS lawsuit

President Donald Trump is appealing a federal judge’s decision to continue investigating whether his lawsuit against the IRS was part of a greater scheme to mislead the court.Trump filed his notice...

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What the Fauci Diary Reveals About Washington

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Meeting your heroes can be demoralizing. Reading more than 1,000 pages of their personal diary can be worse....

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Trump hit countries with tariffs over forced labor, while slowing enforcement of its own ban

President Donald Trump’s latest wave of tariffs are based on allegations that other countries aren’t doing enough to combat forced labor. At the same time, his administration has quietly pulled bac...

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Democratic discontent with Mamdani mounts in New York City’s outer boroughs

NEW YORK — When Queens Borough President Donovan Richards accused the Democratic Socialists of America of perpetuating “white supremacy” earlier this month, it marked a rare instance of a well-know...

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Newsom reveals tax returns in run-up to 2028

SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom disclosed four years of tax returns this week, revealing several steady streams of income for him and his wife that brought in well over $1 million each y...

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Top Democratic donors warn the DNC has a 2028 problem

Major Democratic donors are getting really anxious about 2028.The Democratic National Committee has a massive cash deficit heading into November, and Chair Ken Martin is facing a growing onslaught ...

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'We can have seven homes or we can have 70.' In wake of Los Angeles wildfires, homeowners and developers clash

LOS ANGELES — After the Eaton fire tore through Neil Tyler’s home in Altadena, he and his wife quickly set out to rebuild.They designed their new house to resemble the old one and, with the framing...

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Trump hands Xavier Becerra a climate dilemma

California's most ambitious climate goals could be up for negotiation under a Becerra administration — and the Democratic front-runner is being pulled in two different directions.If he coasts to vi...

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What Comic Con cosplay taught me about America’s divided politics

I walked up to the wizard and asked him, “What do they call you?” He clearly got the reference. “Some would call me Tim.” he said with a smile. I turned around to see a man dressed as a World War...

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A Wolf In New York City Mayor's Clothing

A Wolf In New York City Mayor's Clothing Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Zohran Mamdani may be the most effective and dangerous wolf in sheep's clothing American politics has pr...

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FAA’s effort to vacate its Mall headquarters goes sideways

FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford suggested Thursday that not all of the agency’s Washington-area employees will relocate to Transportation Department headquarters, as initially planned.Speaking at a...

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Amid escalation, US allies hang back on intervening in Iran war

Many of America's allies around the world are growing more comfortable waiting out the Iran war, even as the Trump administration argues their help is needed to end a conflict that's rapidly spiral...

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White House unveils roadmap to demilitarize Gaza

The White House on Thursday announced a new framework aimed at demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, but its success depends on Hamas and Israel fulfilling a series of significant commitments.Under the fr...

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Faced with Blanche dilemma, Trump chooses revenge

President Donald Trump has a choice: allow changes to a controversial court settlement and secure the confirmation of his former personal lawyer as attorney general, or thumb his nose at a pair of ...

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Brendan Carr Speaks Out on Jimmy Kimmel, the Media and Trump

Until recently, the Federal Communications Commission was not an agency that many Americans typically spent much time thinking about. That’s changed in President Donald Trump’s second term under FC...

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Brendan Carr: ‘I don't view the FCC as the speech police’

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr rejects accusations that he’s wielding his agency’s power over broadcast media to punish President Donald Trump’s critics.But he also defends hi...

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‘It’s the honor system’: New Jersey's noncitizen voter registration brings private worries into the open

In May, a bipartisan duo of New Jersey state senators introduced a simple piece of legislation that got little public attention.It would add one sentence to the state’s automatic voter registration...

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All this Blanche back and forth won’t matter much in the end

Any snub of Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general could end up being almost entirely symbolic since, win or lose, the president’s former defense attorney can continue to run the Justice De...

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Wiles tries to break the logjam

Susie Wiles went to the Hill to break the Senate logjam.Republicans have not passed President Donald Trump’s beloved SAVE America Act. They’ve protected his nemesis, the Senate filibuster. A third ...

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Mamdani’s finance agency urged him to tone down contentious tax-the-rich rollout

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani wanted his pied-a-terre tax announcement to land with a bang.So his communications team drafted up a press release celebrating the new property tax, and the mayor to...

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