Less than two weeks before the 25th anniversary of September 11, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick handed foreign ministers something money can't buy: small squares of steel melted down from the World Trade Center, each one a piece of the building where his brother Gary died alongside 657 of his colleagues.
A record-breaking 43-day shutdown orchestrated by congressional Democrats last year still fresh in memory, Republican lawmakers moved decisively this week to take the threat of another government closure off the table before November's midterm elections.
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman has single-handedly torpedoed at least four separate Democratic war powers resolutions since February, voting with Republicans to block his own party's attempts to restrict President Trump's military operations in Iran.
A former close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Black, has filed a lawsuit against the House Oversight Committee after refusing to appear for a sworn deposition.
This column is not a verdict on Lindsay Clancy. That is not our job, and it was never going to be settled by a Tuesday deadline for a column deadline. What is worth examining, closely and without the squeamishness that has come to define public conversation about crime and mental illness, is why an American jury in the year 2026 finds it so difficult to look at the strangulation of three children and render a clean moral judgment either way. That difficulty did not begin in a Plymouth County jury room. It began in the classroom, the therapist's office, and the op-ed page, decades before these particular twelve citizens were ever summoned.
A federal judge appointed by Joe Biden has blocked President Donald Trump's latest effort to crack down on birth tourism, setting up yet another clash between the administration and the judiciary over immigration enforcement.
President Trump rejected reports that the ongoing war with Iran has depleted the nation's munitions stockpiles, arguing that the United States has "virtually unlimited amounts" of ammunition.
The Trump administration sent a letter to the Smithsonian Board of Regents, urging them to abandon its "radical political agenda" and pivot to a faithful "American story."
Only one House Democrat broke ranks Wednesday to support protecting the Supreme Court from political manipulation, as 205 of his colleagues voted to kill a constitutional amendment that would have permanently fixed the court at nine justices.
With roughly nine weeks until voters head to the polls, House Speaker Mike Johnson is turning to one of the most powerful men in America for help keeping Republicans in power.
Former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is seeking the dismissal of drug trafficking charges, with his attorneys arguing that his position as head of a country grants him immunity.
Michigan's top law enforcement officer is urging Jewish Americans to give up "the very future of our own people" for the Democratic Party, even as she confesses she's afraid to show her face at her own party's convention due to anti-Israel hostility.
Denmark granted asylum to 864 people in 2024. That is the lowest total in four decades outside the COVID lockdown year of 2020, and it happened under a Social Democratic government, the same political family American progressives cite as proof that generous welfare states and open borders can coexist. Denmark's left concluded they cannot, and built a policy around that conclusion years ago.