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Eight senators in the Democratic caucus broke ranks late Sunday, siding with Republicans to advance a plan to end government shutdown. The 60-40 vote followed a pledge from Senator John Thune, Republican majority leader …
President Donald Trump will welcome Syria's interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa to the White House on Monday, a first for a Syrian president, capping the former jihadist's rapid transformation from HTS commander to head of st…
Senators struck a bipartisan deal to reopen the government, advancing a 60 to 40 procedural vote on a stopgap funding through Jan. 30, while defections by seven Democrats and one independent, accompanied by a promised he…
Abigail Spanberger will enter the Virginia governor’s office amid an escalating fight over public universities, where Republican-appointed boards at UVA, George Mason and VMI have targeted leaders and diversity initiativ…
HuffPost says Americans have sent Trump a clear message, with Democrats calling it a 5-alarm fire for the president. Framing the moment as Washington chaos, the outlet invites readers to join its coverage and support unf…
President Donald Trump attended the Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders game Sunday, becoming the first sitting president at a regular-season NFL matchup since 1978. He joined the Fox broadcast in the third quarter, …
Defying a climate of fear from Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, Zohran Mamdani, described as New York’s first Muslim mayor and a Ugandan-born immigrant, celebrated victory in Brooklyn by embracing his identity: "I a…
An Arizona high school was engulfed in threats after a Halloween photo of Cienega High math teachers in blood-blotched Problem Solved T-shirts spread online and was falsely tied to the fatal shooting of conservative acti…
Three days after his win, mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani arrived at New York’s post-election retreat in Puerto Rico to a sudden embrace from rivals who once vilified him. In packed ballrooms and poolside receptions, union le…
Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to counter Republican gerrymandering, passed, redrawing California’s congressional map to favor Democrats and rattling Republicans in the Coachella Valley. Joy Miedecke, who led a…
Saturday Night Live’s Donald Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, ignored a man fainting in the Oval Office during a press conference, using the pause to gripe about New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Democratic e…
Back-to-back wins by a democratic socialist in New York and moderates in Virginia and New Jersey ignited a fight over the Democrats’ future. Centrists like Abigail Spanberger tout pragmatism; progressives like Zohran Mam…
Negotiators finalized President Donald Trump’s student-loan overhaul, with the Education Department to publish rules early next year before a July 2026 start. The plan ends Grad PLUS, caps borrowing at $20,500 a year or …
Facing a flurry of subpoenas from Miami, a nascent federal probe has widened into the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian election interference and the role of former CIA director John Brennan, according to people fa…
The article portrays mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech as sweeping and warns his plans—free buses, government groceries, more welfare, and free trans medical care, even for children—will collide with New York’s…
Images of President Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes during a Thursday Oval Office announcement on cutting prices for weight loss drugs raced across social media, drawing taunts from critics, including California…
Gov. Gavin Newsom, fresh off a California win to gerrymander congressional maps for Democrats, celebrated in Houston, speaking beneath a giant American flag as chants of 2028 rang out. He teased Texas Gov. Greg Abbott an…
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated Education Department employees' First Amendment rights by overwriting their furlough out-of-office emails with a partisan message blaming Senate Democrats for …
Palantir CEO Alex Karp used interviews with Axios and CNBC to cast his company as central to US economic growth, saying Palantir is growing the GDP and that most GDP gains now come from AI. He touted Palantir as a baller…
President Trump threatened military action in Nigeria over attacks on Christians, with the Pentagon preparing options. But the article argues his U.S. aid cuts are likely killing far more Nigerians than jihadi violence. …
The Justice Department launched a fresh probe into the Obama-era intelligence assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election, issuing grand jury subpoenas from the Southern District of Florida, according to peop…
A year after Kamala Harris’s concession, Democrats shook off despair with coast to coast wins that exceeded expectations. Abigail Spanberger became Virginia’s first woman governor; Mikie Sherrill turned a tight New Jerse…
Zohran Mamdani, who will be New York City’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, defined his improbable run with vivid blue and orange graphics that nodded to Bollywood posters and the city’s bodegas, taxis, and carts. De…
New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said voters chose her to “get their costs down” — fast — and promised Day 1 action. In an interview with Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, the House Democrat and former Navy heli…
Voter fury over rising electricity costs is shaping next year’s midterms, especially in states confronting fast-rising bills or data center power fights. The issue loomed over contests in New Jersey, Virginia and Georgia…