Category: North America

At a Bayside Queens town hall, Chuck Park, a former member of the foreign service and a Democratic challenger to Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., was […]

Graham Platner is at the center of another scandal, this time after reports he sent sexual messages to multiple  women during his relationship with his […]

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Six states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to cancel a […]

A self-described “MAGA lefty” stunned political analysts and observers on Wednesday by calling on President Donald Trump to issue new stimulus checks because of the […]

The House Ethics Committee has sent letters to former committee members asking them to provide information about leaks stemming from a case that was later […]

Democrats are reportedly “not happy” that Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D) is pushing for a vote on a war powers resolution to limit U.S. support […]

After widespread bipartisan outcry, the Justice Department says it is permanently abandoning plans for a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. Widely branded as a “slush fund,” […]

For the second time in three weeks, the Roberts Court on Tuesday night green-lit an Alabama congressional map that a lower court has repeatedly found […]

As I was writing this, the House actually passed a war powers resolution. This is from NBC News: The House offered a rare rebuke to […]

The FIFA Men’s World Cup starts next week—and some players still don’t know whether they’ll be able to travel to their matches. On Wednesday, Switzerland’s […]

NA Last night, the Trump Administration revealed plans to use Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose massive new tariffs on imports […]

Famed “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley was fired Tuesday night. “We have parted ways with Scott Pelley,” Nick Bilton, the tech journalist who CBS News’ […]

This is what I got when I asked Canva’s AI illustration generator to give me a picture of “donkeys debating,” in case you wondered whether […]

The success of Organize NYC, a new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for […]

It is official. Senate Democrats scored two huge wins in the Republican reconciliation bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol. Republicans put themselves in a […]

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, befuddled an analyst on Wednesday by making several wild claims about President […]

The New York Times editorial board issued a blistering verdict on President Donald Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence Wednesday, […]

While most California races were called by the morning after Election Day, a handful of key holdouts remain. “This is normal,” Secretary of State Shirley […]

In the first chapter of his new book, Weissmann makes clear that Trump’s political lying has damaged American democracy more than any of the singular […]