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The closure of the Department of Homeland Security has now become the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history, at 45 days and counting. It...
Watch enough Pentagon press conferences and a running theme emerges: Pete Hegseth whining about media coverage of the war in Iran. “You’re either...
If I stopped taking the medication that suppresses my HIV, at first I’d feel fine. But over the next few months, my viral load would rise. In the...
President Trump keeps signaling that the Iran war he started with Israel is nowhere close to completion, despite his repeated assurances otherwise —...
While diplomatic discussions appear to be underway between the U.S. and Iran, as of now there is still no end in sight for the Iran war. It’s also...
The political world is, understandably, focused on 2026 Senate and House races. The question of whether the Republican Party will maintain its...
Though President Donald Trump continues to insist that the war with Iran is a spectacular success, four weeks after the U.S. and Israel attacked, the...
As travelers languished in hours-long security lines at more than a dozen U.S. airports this week, President Trump boarded Air Force One headed for...
In the middle of Thursday night, in a near-empty Senate chamber, an end to the most perplexing conflict of the second Donald Trump term finally came...
On paper, the couple seemed perfect, ticking all the boxes for their wedding to be featured in Vogue: career, family history, luxury photographer and...
This is the most transparent Justice Department in the history of the United States and maybe all of human existence. Just ask them. When pressed in...
The Department of Homeland Security has been shuttered for more than a month as congressional lawmakers remain at an impasse over funding for the...
On Tuesday, a New Mexico jury found that Meta had violated state law, misleading users about safety measures and engaging in “unconscionable”...
Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced he was taking the first step toward delivering on a vital campaign promise: establishing a new way for the...
In 2024, Anthropic tested out a feature called “computer use,” a tool that could “try to manipulate a computer desktop environment,” clicking...
When Andrea Bartzen moved to New York in the late 1990s, it may have looked like she was living out a season of HBO’s then-new Sex and the City. She...
The Department of Homeland Security shutdown will reach its 40th day tomorrow, and it seems this partisan dispute over immigration enforcement cannot...
Seven years after officially decamping to his Palm Beach estate from New York, President Donald Trump will be represented by a Democrat in the Florida...
I love college basketball more than I should, and spend a disturbingly large percentage of my life watching it. And as we head into the second weekend...
Last week, the internet watched Taylor Frankie Paul throw barstools at her ex-boyfriend while another reality-star scandal received far less...
When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care,...
Amid the chaos and bloodshed of Donald Trump’s military excursions into Iran and Venezuela, it’s easy to overlook the needless misery America is...
Representative Hakeem Jeffries is so close to becoming Speaker of the House that he doesn’t even need to measure the drapes. In the literal office...
“Stay close, my tiny little noodles,” the mother spaghetti strand says, desperately clinging to her two adorable pasta daughters as a disembodied...
In January, Vice-President J. D. Vance delivered a Jewish prayer during a wedding at a synagogue in Rockville, Maryland. The bride was Rachel...
Shortly before midnight on Sunday, Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a Canadair CRJ-900 operated by Jazz Aviation LP, collided with a firetruck after...
More than three weeks into the Iran War, President Trump has failed to accomplish any of the constantly changing objectives he has laid out along the...
The women sound like men who have been to war: They can only try to tell you. “It was a place,” says a former camper, “I have been doing my best...
Days after the killing of Charlie Kirk in September, the Department of Justice announced a crackdown on “antifa,” or anti-fascist groups. Federal...
How long will President Donald Trump’s new war with Iran last? That depends on whom, how, or when you’re asking (or how freaked out the markets...
On March 7, as the World Baseball Classic was starting to ramp up, Team Venezuela manager Omar López kicked off a press conference with a plea to...
Why are the United States and Israel at war with Iran? No one, least of all the men waging the conflict on our reluctant and terrified behalf, seems...
In the aftermath of air strikes on gas fields and oil facilities around the Middle East, the global energy crisis touched off by the war in Iran has...
Even as the Supreme Court has granted Donald Trump expanded presidential powers, it has tried to warn him: Don’t mess with the Fed. But the...
While testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, former Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem denied that her top aide, Corey...
Dubai prides itself on being a cosmopolitan city immune from the volatility that defines some of its neighbors in the Persian Gulf. President...
The day before Joe Kent resigned from the Trump administration as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, declaring he could not in...
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez likes her car. For a congresswoman, it’s not exactly flashy — a 2013 Volkswagen Jetta — but it has an upgraded engine,...
There are enormous gaps in the information available about the war with Iran. In the country at the center of the conflict, tight media and internet...
The race to succeed five-term Democratic Illinois senator Dick Durbin, which exposed political fault lines from Illinois to Washington, D.C., all but...
Oklahoma senator Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation hearing to become the next Homeland Security secretary soon became a battleground of old grudges as...
In 1992, Illinois became the first state to elect a Black woman to the U.S. Senate after Carol Moseley Braun upset incumbent Democratic senator Alan...
Aaron Rivkin said it was “the worst 40 minutes of my life.” On Thursday, March, 12, his mother-in-law planned to pick up his 3-year-old daughter...
As Niccolò Machiavelli pointed out five centuries ago, “wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.” Donald Trump is about to...
An Israeli air strike on Tuesday killed Iranian security chief Ali Larijani, one of the most important figures inside Iran’s regime, who had...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently got the political equivalent of what baseball players call a brushback pitch — a fastball deliberately thrown...
The CoreCivic employees stop me when I turn off Highway 85 onto the road to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. The men are gleaming, barrel...
An iron law of running a large internet service is that your users will figure out how to use it to share, consume, or make porn. Explicit adult...
There’s a lot of drama in the world of conservative broadcasting and podcasting these days. But rarely do the spats get as personal as the brewing...
There was a time when Ro Khanna boasted of “working with the American Jewish Committee and AIPAC to build ties between the Indo American and...