Soon after, it was common to see reports quoting CDC insiders referring to the agency in the past tense. The New York Times published a report with a headline and subhead that immediately generated ...

Around this time 20 years ago, Democrats were in a tough spot: Republicans controlled the U.S. House and Senate; a Republican president had just won a second term; and Democrats struggled to agree ...

Donald Trump’s discomfort with facts has become the stuff of legend. But given recent events, it’s worth dwelling on a specific part of the president’s rejection of reality — specifically, the war on ...

The U.S. generals and admirals who were summoned to listen to bizarre remarks from Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had nothing to say publicly in the aftermath of the event. That was ...

Gov. JB Pritzker began the week with a rather extraordinary speech in Chicago, responding to Donald Trump’s apparent plans to deploy National Guard troops to public streets in the Midwest’s largest ...

Donald Trump was in Pennsylvania this week, speaking at an energy and innovation summit, when his comments veered off on an odd tangent. “I have to brag just for a second,” the president said, before ...

Donald Trump’s second term has clearly been challenging for U.S. intelligence agencies. It was just a few months ago, for example, when the leaders of the National Intelligence Council were fired ...

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. * It’s Election Day in the late Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly’s Virginia district, where Democrat James Walkinshaw is ...

* At the White House’s direction, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe, signed into law a newly gerrymandered congressional district intended to boost his fellow Republicans. If implemented, the map will ensure ...

About a week ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued an unprecedented order: The former Fox News host directed the military’s top commanders — roughly 800 generals and admirals — who are spread out ...

Shortly after Donald Trump orchestrated former FBI Director James Comey’s criminal indictment, the bureau’s incumbent chief, Kash Patel, appeared eager to revel in the case against one of his ...

When Joe Biden passed the presidential torch back to Donald Trump, the Republican had reason to celebrate the economic conditions he was inheriting. In the closing weeks of 2024, a Wall Street Journal ...