Politics & Policy
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You Vote: With SCOTUS decision on late-arriving ballots and Speaker Johnson's warning, what now?
The implications of the case are fairly narrow, as the case only determined that federal law did not bar states from tabulating ballots received after election day but postmarked by it.
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Trump claims rise in socialist candidates is 'biggest threat to our nation'
“I think it’s the biggest threat to our nation there is, maybe since our founding," Trump said. "That includes World War I, World War II, September 11, it includes the Pearl Harbor attack.”
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Johnson sends housing bill to Trump's desk after canceled signing ceremony
Johnson's action starts the 10-day clock for Trump to either sign or veto the bill. If he takes no action, the bill automatically becomes law.
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More than 41K Wisconsin voter registrations don't match driver, ID database, state data shows
A judge ruled state regulators must check voter registration information with state identification database to ensure the voter rolls are accurate.
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Ohio Secretary of State refers more than 1,200 criminal cases to Justice Department
The state election official's recommendations include 1,084 noncitizens who appear to have registered to vote unlawfully in Ohio, including 167 noncitizens who appear to have voted in a federal election in the past four election cycles.
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Mamdani’s dad claimed ‘moral equivalence’ between U.S. and Al-Qaeda, compared Afghan war to 9/11
Nepo babies of the world, unite! A man is not his father, but Zohran Mamdani's views on 9/11, terrorism, and Western culture may have been informed by the radical claims made in a book by his father, Mahmood Mamdani, a well-off, prominent left-wing academic.
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Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica as Category 5 storm
Hurricane Melissa is the strongest storm on record to hit Jamaica
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Dems reject union calls to end the shutdown
The AFGE represents more than 820,000 federal workers.
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Top DOJ official threatens to punish states that don’t clean up voter rolls, follow law
Though many blue states protest, states are required to submit voter data to the DOJ under federal election laws to enable verification of voter eligibility, prevent non-citizens from voting illegally, and detect duplicate registrations or multiple votes across jurisdictions.
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Republicans flock to Hawley's SNAP bill amid shutdown
The shutdown is nearing the longest on record as Democrats demand the reversal of healthcare cuts made in the One Big, Beautiful Bill.
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Federal workers union asks Dems to end shutdown
The American Federation of Government Employees represents more than 820,000 federal workers.
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Students under cellphone ban in FL school district have better test scores, fewer absences: study
The study shows disciplinary incidents leveling out and an increase in test scores by about two or three percentiles compared to scores before the ban
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Mamdani’s 'aunt' from his Islamophobia speech wasn’t his aunt after all
Mamdani's speech framing his family and fellow Muslims as victims of the post-9/11 era received a stark fact-check.