In all the arguments over whether President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for director of national intelligence is fit for the job, it’s easy to lose sight of why it matters.

It matters a lot. To speak of telling truth to power seems terribly old-fashioned these days, but as a veteran of White House intelligence operations, I know ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans will enter the 119th Congress with a razor-thin majority after an election that saw Democrats score a net gain of one seat — a rare bright spot for the party that decisively lost the White House and the Senate last month.

The final race to be decided — nearly one month after Election Day — was in ...Read more

MIAMI — Nearly two years ago, former Miami-Dade Congressman David Rivera was charged with secretly operating as a foreign agent for the Venezuelan government.

But an associate who helped Rivera obtain a $50 million contract with a U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela’s national oil company ended up conspicuously absent from Rivera’s conspiracy ...Read more

DETROIT — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan launched a campaign for governor of Michigan on Wednesday, declaring he'll run as an independent and not seek the Democratic Party's nomination in 2026.

Duggan, a 66-year-old longtime Democrat, launched his gubernatorial bid with a video that highlighted his decade of accomplishments as mayor, saying "my ...Read more

During a whirlwind few hours in South Korean politics, President Yoon Suk Yeol placed the country under martial law on Dec. 3, 2024, only to lift it just a short while later.

It marked the first time that a South Korean leader has imposed the emergency power since 1979. And although short-lived, the measure provoked concerns of the ...Read more

Parisians navigating the narrow streets of the 4th arrondissement in recent days may have heard a familiar, yet nearly forgotten, sound. The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral have been ringing again after nearly five years, in preparation for the famed building’s long-awaited reopening.

Notre Dame officially reopens on Dec. 7, 2024, ...Read more

The United States isn’t mostly red or mostly blue. It’s mostly purple. That’s what I’ve learned from a quarter-century of making maps based on the results of presidential elections.

The country is, however, becoming more split along party lines.

This work started as a curiosity project. Back in 2000, most maps of ...Read more

President Joe Biden is rounding off his trip to Angola by announcing $600 million in new financing for a multi-country railway as the U.S. looks to bolster its investment in critical minerals infrastructure in Africa and curb Chinese influence.

Today’s announcement builds on $553 million the U.S. International Development Finance Corp pledged...Read more

President Joe Biden gave the American people a final kick in the teeth with his about-face pardon of son Hunter Biden.

It’s a huge win for the Fortunate Son — he’s now spared a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions.

Joe Biden, who’s been fond of garnishing his speeches with the phrase “believe me,” ...Read more

In one fell swoop on Sunday, President Joe Biden erased whatever remaining claim he might have had in history to being a reformist president who restored the rule of law and political normalcy torn down by his predecessor. Biden’s blanket pardon for his son Hunter was such a self-dealing, corrupt and corrosive move that there’s no better ...Read more

President Joe Biden’s legacy leaves much to be desired, but his decision to pardon his son Hunter on the way out of the White House leaves another irreparable stain.

The move, announced Sunday, contradicts the 46th president’s repeated assurances that he would abide by the justice system’s handling of his son’s case, which involves tax ...Read more

The U.S. Census Bureau and a growing number of states are starting to gather more detailed information about Americans’ race and ethnicity, a change some advocates of the process say will allow people to choose identities that more closely reflect how they see themselves.

Crunching and sorting through those specific details — known as data ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Parents whose kids died allegedly because of social media content are pushing lawmakers to require tech companies to alter practices to minimize such harms.

Attorneys general in more than half of U.S. states support the same legislation, saying “many social media platforms target minors, resulting in a national youth mental ...Read more

Now that Donald Trump will be headed to the White House, it is all but certain that he will pursue significant new taxes on imported goods. Although a widely criticized policy, there is little stopping him from doing this due to trade powers that Congress has given the executive branch over the years. Before President Joe Biden leaves office, ...Read more

In the late 1970s, when Jimmy Carter was president, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was less than a decade old and still developing basic workplace safety rules. As unimaginable as it is now, workers did not have the right to know the names and toxic properties of the chemicals to which they were exposed, or to be ...Read more

There is an understandable urge among many Americans to cast aside America's essential principles in a frenetic effort to oppose Donald Trump. And there's a logic to this approach: He does it, so why shouldn't we?

Yet doing so would be a big mistake.

For starters, it often backfires. Take the essential principle of respecting the rule of law. ...Read more

All indications are that President-elect Donald Trump has every intention of following through on his promise to ramp up deportations, suspend due process and restrict legal status for millions of people living in the United States.

These include the children of immigrants, survivors of domestic violence and skilled foreign-born tech workers. ...Read more

Donald Trump secured a surprising 43% of the Latino vote, enough to swing the election in his favor. Now, Democrats are forced to confront the fallout of their failure, which is rooted in decades of disinvestment and disregard for the diverse Latino communities. Articles, conferences and white papers have warned of these consequences for years. ...Read more

President Joe Biden's Sunday move to pardon his son Hunter weeks before he was set to be sentenced for his federal convictions served as Jon Stewart's comedy fodder this week.

During Monday's episode of "The Daily Show," the guest host said that while he respects Biden's decision to protect his son, the sweeping pardon is a knock for Democrats ...Read more