Trump Tells European Leaders He Intends to Meet With Putin and Zelensky  —  President Trump has been stymied for months in his efforts to find a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, after more than three years of war.  —  President Trump intends to meet in person with President Vladimir V. Putin …

The case for Democratic recklessness, redux  —  The Democrats also doing mid-decade redistricting would be chaos.  It's also the only way out of this situation.  —  Back in 2017, I wrote a piece for Pacific Standard called “The Case for Democratic Recklessness.”

Secretary Noem Unveils No Age Limit for Patriotic Americans to Join ICE Law Enforcement to Help Remove Worst of the Worst from U.S.  —  In less than one week since DHS launched its recruitment campaign, more than 80,000 Americans applied to join ICE  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Department …

Addressing Threats to The United States by the Government of the Russian Federation  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)

Trump Weighs Getting Involved in New York City Mayor's Race  —  The possibility that the president will seek to intercede could inject an element of unpredictability into an already fractious contest.  —  President Trump may have moved out of New York City, but he has privately discussed whether …

Live updates: 5 soldiers shot at Fort Stewart in Georgia, shooter in custody  —  Gunfire erupted at the army base on Wednesday morning, prompting the base commander to lock down facilities in the wake of an “active shooter” incident. … Shooter was from Florida and had no deployments

Women shouldn't hold office, says GOP woman now running for office  —  “I don't know if I would vote for any female,” said state senate hopeful Mylie Biggs, the daughter of GOP Rep. Andy Biggs. … Audio By Carbonatix … The daughter of Rep. Andy Biggs, one of Donald Trump's biggest …

LAWSUIT: FIRE challenges unconstitutional provisions Rubio uses in crusade to deport legal immigrants over protected speech  — The First Amendment trumps the statutes that the government is abusing to deport people for speech alone  — This lawsuit seeks a landmark ruling …

FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE  —  Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs.  It could signal problems with ICE recruitment.  —  A number of employees with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) …

Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common  —  Last Friday, the Supreme Court all but announced how it would rule on the future of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  —  The case in question, Louisiana v. Callais, which was heard for the first time in March, is a dispute over the drawing of the state's six congressional districts.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn announces she's running for governor in Tennessee  —  Blackburn would be the state's first female governor if she wins.  —  Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is running for governor, she announced Wednesday, promising to help her state be “America's conservative leader” for generations to come.

FBI crime report says violent crime decreased by 4.5% in 2024  —  Violent crime is defined as murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.  —  Statistics released Tuesday by the FBI indicate that violent crime decreased overall in the United States by 4.5% last year.

Gabbard overrode CIA officials' concerns in push to release classified Russia report  —  CIA officials worried that the release of a House report on 2016 Russian election meddling could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources, but Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard authorized …

Allegations surrounding GOP's Cory Mills go from bad to worse  —  House Republican leaders didn't need another controversy surrounding one of their members, but they apparently have one anyway.  —  All things considered, House Republican leaders didn't need another controversy surrounding …

RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research  —  The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.  —  The Trump administration is terminating 22 contracts focused on developing mRNA vaccines …

Library of Congress blames “coding error” for missing sections of online Constitution  —  The Library of Congress on Wednesday pointed to an unspecified “coding error” that led to key parts of the U.S. Constitution being deleted from the Constitution Annotated website.

Trump administration staffer known as ‘Big Balls’ assaulted in DC … President Donald Trump posted a photo on his social media platform showing a shirtless Coristine with what appeared to be blood spattered on his face, body and pants.  He called for a change in the law so that the juveniles …

The Banality of Weasel  —  Yesterday, the president of the United States appeared without explanation on the roof of the White House, walked aimlessly for a bit, shouted back-and-forth with reporters, said some hard-to-interpret things about nuclear weapons, gesticulated oddly, and then left.

Apple Announces $100 Billion US Investment Ahead of Trump Event  —  Apple Inc. committed to spending another $100 billion on domestic manufacturing ahead of an event with President Donald Trump, marking the latest pledge by the tech giant to increase US production as it seeks to avoid punishing tariffs on its flagship iPhones.

Trump's War on Big Law Means It's Harder to Challenge the Administration  —  Some of America's largest law firms are refusing to take pro bono and paid legal work from groups that seek to hold the government to account on issues like environmental protection, LGBTQ+ rights and police accountability.

Why the laws of war are widely ignored  —  Global courts struggle to cope with power politics  —  International courts have never been busier.  Conflicts are more common than at any point since 1945.  Ever more civilians are being bombed, starved and raped by men with guns.

Vance expected to host Epstein strategy dinner with Bondi, Blanche, Patel  —  Officials are considering releasing the Ghislaine Maxwell interview transcript.  —  Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks on the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” at Don's Machine Shop in West Pittston, Penn., on July 16, 2025.

The Fight to Plan America's Birthday Party  —  President Trump's attempted takeover of America's 250th-anniversary celebration began this spring when his team drew up a $33 million fundraising plan for a series of events starring the president, including a military parade in Washington.

What Do We Owe Andry?  —  Our country sent this young man and hundreds of others to a foreign gulag to be tortured and sexually assaulted.  —  ∙ Paid  —  THE MOST PIERCING QUESTION from the Watergate scandal was “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”

Glenn Kessler Believes Fact-Checkers Are Getting Easier to Ignore … Last week Glenn Kessler, the longtime writer of the Washington Post's Fact Checker column, announced that he had accepted a buyout, joining dozens of his former colleagues in walking away from the storied institution.

Russia's internet crackdown is in a dangerous new phase  —  Criminalising searches is an escalation of repressive state control  —  The writer is a lawyer, co-founder of digital rights organisation RKS Global and CLO of VPN Guild  —  In July, Russian authorities passed laws ushering in a new era of digital repression.