The US and Iran are trading accusations after violence erupted in the Strait of Hormuz, with the Americans claiming three of ...

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Anthony Scaramucci, the extremely short-lived former White House director of communications during Trump’s first term, and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the battle to control the ...

Gerrymandering is proliferating in states across the U.S. Republicans and Democrats alike have been redrawing voting ...

It’s not their war. But it’s becoming their political and economic nightmare. World leaders who opposed the US-Israeli attack on Iran are being torn between Donald Trump’s ire at their failure to join ...

For nearly four decades, American political discourse worked assiduously to sideline the subject of class. This was not because economic inequality had ...

President Donald Trump speaks to the press ahead of his travel to Texas and Florida on February 27, 2026, in Washington D.C. On Feb. 27, around the time he was giving the order to launch military ...