There are two Americas colliding this week, and they could not be more different. In one, the federal government is drafting a plan to pay married mothers and fathers real money for the work of raising their own children. In the other, a TikTok trend has mothers publicly declaring solidarity with a woman on trial for strangling her three children to death. Both stories broke within days of each other. Both are about motherhood. And the gulf between them tells you everything about where the American left has drifted.

The Trump administration has requested that the Supreme Court allow the government to confirm the citizenship of voters.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) launched a program that allows those without a plane ticket to go through security and see their loved ones to the gate.

Just months after his father's sweeping pardon erased his federal gun and tax convictions, Hunter Biden is now publicly entertaining a run for the White House in 2028.

Convicted parent killers Erik and Lyle Menendez have been granted an early shot at freedom, with California officials scheduling a parole suitability hearing for March 2027, more than a year ahead of when they were originally eligible to apply.

Lindsay Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, has urged President Trump to grant his client a presidential pardon.

The Trump administration's sustained campaign against what it called "radical, activist ideology" at America's national museums has claimed its biggest scalp yet: Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III announced he's stepping down by the end of the year.

President Trump posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther, a volunteer firefighter who saved up to 18 people's lives during 9/11.

Danbury, Connecticut, will allow some migrants who are noncitizens to become police officers, the Hartford Courant reports.

Just one in four American women say they're extremely proud to be American, a stunning 13-point collapse in a single year that's prompted a new campaign to revive the patriotic spirit that once defined generations of women who built this nation.

Twenty-five attorneys general have demanded that federal agencies and Congress cut funding for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) over its use of taxpayer dollars in climate-related lawsuits.

The Republican National Committee is making history with an unprecedented midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, and the speaker lineup reads like a who's who of the America First movement.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that he will launch the city's first public portal for records relating to the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.

A staggering 72 percent of Gen Z now believe they have a mental illness, with more than 40 percent having received official diagnoses and 60 percent taking pharmaceutical drugs "to help manage their mental health."

The Trump Department of Justice submitted a court filing arguing that artificial intelligence can legally train from copyrighted content.

The Texas State Board of Education gave final approval to high school social studies curriculum that dictates how students will learn about Islam and Christianity.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) said during an interview with "PBS NewsHour" that the socialist party's ideas are being worked into the Democratic platform.

Tehran is openly threatening to attack South Korean military and economic assets across the Persian Gulf if Seoul deploys forces to help secure the Strait of Hormuz against Iranian aggression.

The largest union representing federal workers has now filed 19 lawsuits against the Trump administration, waging a legal war that critics say amounts to bureaucratic resistance against an elected president's authority to manage his own government.

A political earthquake shook Germany Sunday as voters in Saxony-Anhalt handed the Alternative for Germany party a crushing victory that left the nation's mainstream parties scrambling to keep the populist movement out of power.