Politics

Sohei Kamiya, leader of Japan’s populist Sanseitō party, has stormed Japan’s political landscape by winning 14 new seats.

Senator Marco Rubio fueled speculation about the 2028 presidential race after being pressed on whether he would consider running.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D‑Ariz.) acknowledged on CNN that the Democratic Party suffers from a severe “messaging problem,” citing national polls.

Stanford University suspends a student-run co-op accused of targeting Jewish students with antisemitic harassment.

Southern states like Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee are leading the nation in reading and math recovery after COVID-19.

On CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought launched a scathing critique of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), charging that the agency “does nothing more than DEI research.” Vought argued that while the world faced a deadly pandemic, NIH leadership engaged in mismanaged science that helped create risks rather than solving them.

Republican leadership in the U.S. House dispatched lawmakers home early Wednesday, cutting short the session by a day before the standard six‑week August recess. The move appeared designed to stall votes on Democratic efforts to publish full case files on Jeffrey Epstein—the politically connected sex offender who died in custody in 2019.

The University of Pittsburgh’s Justice Scholars Institute enrolls high school students in courses promoting social justice activism.

Kentucky businessman and Senate Republican candidate Nate Morris defined amnesty in a single word: “treason.” During an appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend, Morris, 44, urged full deportation of an estimated 20 million illegal immigrants who entered during the Biden administration, alongside a halt to new arrivals until the issue is resolved.

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte shut five Northern California clinics due to Medicaid defunding under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.