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While the administration continues to launch controversial initiatives, the institutions designed to provide checks and balances are pushing back, because there is a right and a wrong way to do things. The result is a president…
The federal budget deficit is projected to reach 120 percent of GDP by 2036, and 175 percent by 2046, due to a combination of tax cuts and increased spending, requiring both tax increases and benefit…
President Trump said he’s hopeful acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Bill Pulte will shrink the size of his new office, saying it’s “too big.” The comments come in an interview the president gave The…
The Chicago Bears appear to be headed to Northwest Indiana after the board of directors voted to advance its stadium project.
Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner (D) said Thursday that his past sexting with multiple women was an issue that he and his wife, Amy Gertner, dealt with early on in their marriage. When asked in…
A federal judge on Friday vacated a series of President Trump’s policies enacted in the wake of a deadly attack on National Guard members, forcing immigration agencies to again process applications from citizens of nearly…
President Trump on Friday pushed back on inflation concerns driven by a strong jobs report, arguing robust growth should be viewed as a positive for markets. “With a great Jobs Report, like just announced, stocks…
A majority on a three-judge appeals court panel appeared sympathetic to a challenge to President Trump’s White House ballroom project at oral arguments on Friday. The two Democratic-appointed judges pressed the government on its arguments that Congress has already given all necessary approvals and that a preservationist group has no right…
Officials in Florida decided a viable unborn child has legal standing worthy of state protection. Legally, however, that creates a dangerous framework, because it transforms the pregnant woman’s autonomy into something conditional. And what gets…
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Friday he is pausing the state’s data center tax incentives starting in July amid a push to address concerns about electricity costs and water resources that have plagued the…
President Trump unveiled plans Thursday for a new pedestrian “promenade” connecting the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River, the latest in a series of high-profile projects aimed at reshaping some of Washington’s most recognizable landmarks.…
An NPR reporter on Thursday accused former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) of threatening him during a heated phone call that included the phrase “a gun in your face.” NPR’s Bobby Allyn said the comments from…
Cracks in the transfer tunnel of the aging space station have been causing leaks since 2019.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving ahead with a safety review of the abortion pill mifepristone, according to an administration official. The move marks a victory for anti-abortion groups that could pave the…
Americans do not want AI-enabled surveillance; we need new legal guardrails to protect us.
The move by the House Armed Services Committee injects another partisan wedge issue into an already fraught defense bill.
Pete Buttigieg is everywhere. Buttigieg, the former Transportation secretary in the Biden administration, has emerged as one of the Democratic Party’s most visible messengers ahead of the midterms, traveling to battleground districts, venturing into red…
We don’t have bipartisan agreement on much these days, but we should all agree that nobody — not Elon Musk, not anyone — should be using the court system to muzzle ordinary citizens.