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WASHINGTON — “Give me a break.”

That was the response of a combative President Donald Trump when asked Tuesday morning on CNBC about former federal officials — including his onetime Transportation secretary, ...Read more

A California Republican is pushing a bill in Congress that would ban virtually all redistricting before 2030, a move that would kill President Donald Trump’s effort to flip up to five Democratic seats in Texas and also ...Read more

President Donald Trump has dropped his demand that Rupert Murdoch immediately testify in the president's libel lawsuit over a Jeffrey Epstein story in the Wall Street Journal, but the 94-year-old media mogul has agreed to ...Read more

If nations can suffer from cognitive dissonance just as individuals can, it’s easy to see why we elected Donald Trump.

A good place to start thinking about this is football:

As I often do in late summer, I was ...Read more

Housing affordability is a key issue for the American consumer on which the Trump administration has done nothing useful. From tariffs on construction material to higher budget deficits driving up interest rates to ...Read more

August is usually downtime in Washington. Congress is in recess, the heat and humidity contribute to the desire to escape town for cooler weather, the president is normally somewhere else and cable news is focused on shark...Read more

The Federal Reserve resisted pressure from the White House last week and left its policy rate unchanged. It was the right decision. As Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged, the case for a cut was a bit stronger this time than ...Read more

In the media, the U.S. Federal Reserve is under siege. President Donald Trump constantly threatens to fire Chair Jerome Powell. Others hurl criticism in hopes of becoming Powell’s successor. Two Fed governors opposed ...Read more

Having prevailed in mid-July on party-line congressional votes to slash foreign assistance and zero-out public broadcasting, senior Trump administration officials immediately signaled intent to seek still more “...Read more

Like many who have endured childhood trauma, Shannon Hicks turned to drugs at an early age. Pregnant by 16 and a mother of two by 19, she was married and living in her first home — believing she was living the dream.

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On Friday, Donald Trump followed up a concerning jobs report with massive new global tariffs, driving markets down and once more raising prices on consumers for no reason after weeks of supposed trade negotiations. Like ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Watermelon head. Sleazebag. Scam artist. Belongs in prison. Enemy from within.

President Donald Trump has used all those insults and more to describe the man he calls Adam “Shifty” Schiff over the past ...Read more

If you’re still looking for someone to blame for Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection, don’t just look at the usual suspects — the MAGA die-hards, the QAnon crowd or your uncle screaming at Fox News. Consider the bros at...Read more

Even before the Trump administration’s headline-grabbing assaults on public institutions, our democracy was showing alarming signs of distress. A 2023 Brookings Institution report found that the United States “is ...Read more

In our era, they might seem like performative gestures for the president. A quiet visit with the wife of a wounded soldier. A conversation with a battlefield nurse or a kitchen worker. A hand extended to a Black woman who ...Read more

A few weeks after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, several published statements have called for a referendum and a transition beyond the Islamic Republic.

One of these, signed by 800 domestic and international ...Read more

Remember when then-candidate Donald Trump said during an Iowa ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into claims that national security officials participated in a conspiracy in late 2016 and early 2017 to link President Donald Trump to Russia�...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s expanded reciprocal tariffs will not apply to any products loaded onto a vessel for transport into the United States before 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, according to ...Read more