You could measure the on-and-off feud between President Trump and the comedian Bill Maher in weeks, years, or decades. Last ...

In 2002, most ambitious Democrats supported a Middle Eastern war. In 2026, most oppose it.

A recent killing of a neo-Nazi activist could bring France’s far-right party closer to power than it’s ever been.

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The Trump administration’s budget cuts are looming over Tax Day.

One of the most revered figures in American history can no longer be called heroic. But the movement he led can be.

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A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually ...

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Naturally, the Senate is debating none of those things. Instead, Republicans in Congress’s upper chamber are spending this ...

In April 2024, Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO and a current AI evangelist, gave a closed-door lecture to a group of Stanford students. If these young people hoped to be Silicon Valley ...

According to The Wall Street Journal, when General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned the president that a U.S. attack would prompt Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, Trump ...