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A guest post by Georgetown legal scholar Peter E. Harrell.
Textualists cannot rest on Justice Scalia’s laurels. They need to address modern criticisms.
Georgia lawmakers are expected to try to clean up an election mess of their own making when they return to the Capitol this week for a special session
The Kentucky Republican senator, after past tension with the president and Rep. Thomas Massie's ouster, looks more White House-aligned.
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Secret memos show that the White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants.
The emerging agreement ends a costly war but leaves Iran’s leadership intact and its nuclear future still subject to negotiation.
President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron are scheduled to meet Monday at the G7 summit in France. The meeting comes after the Trump administration on Sunday reached a preliminary deal with Iran that it said would open the Strait of Hormuz. Trump is also threatening France with 100 percen...
The U.S.-Iran deal was signed electronically on Sunday by President Trump, Vice President Vance and Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, senior administration officials told reporters on Monday. Why it matters: The deal is already testing whether Washington and Tehran can turn a b...
The dispute rejected by the Supreme Court involved the scope of students' free speech rights and schools' ability to restrict expression that could be viewed as reflecting their endorsement.
Representative Barry Moore, an early backer of the president during his first campaign, faces Jared Hudson, a former Navy SEAL tapping into the excitement for outsiders.
The Iran War obviously imperils the vice president’s path to power. The post Vance’s Next Move? appeared first on The American Conservative.
When the chancellors of Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis commissioned a committee chaired by the New York University philosopher Paul Boghossian to assess the condition of humanistic and social-scientific scholarship, they invited a particular sort of reply. The post T...
FBI agents reportedly raided Ohio Organizing Collaborative headquarters as part of a federal fraud investigation into the liberal voter mobilization group.
Donald Trump will celebrate his 80th birthday on Sunday with a UFC fight at the White House, as the oldest-ever US president looks to eclipse recent political setbacks with a massive spectacle.
Why are so many “afraid” of Pulte serving as the acting DNI? If the president is genuinely confused, he’s not paying close enough attention. The post If Trump really wants to know why Pulte is so cont...
President Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday on Sunday by hailing an initial agreement to end the war in Iran and staging a cage-fighting show on the White House's storied South Lawn.
A bill tightening Colorado's civil asset forfeiture laws passed the state legislature by wide bipartisan margins and was signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis.
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Vice President Vance said he’ll explore next steps for his political career after the midterm elections as speculation about a potential 2028 presidential bid stirs. “Usha and I will absolutely sit down and talk about what comes next for our family,” Vance told CBS, noting it will be after the Nove...
President Trump is celebrating his 80th birthday with a UFC fight on the White House lawn. A closer look a the political message behind the event and why some Republicans are uneasy.
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The South Lawn event was meant to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary and the president's 80th birthday.
California’s criminal justice system is so weak that it will release child predators on bail after they have been convicted of their crimes, with no mind to the consequences and the threat to the public. The FBI has tracked down Carl Cacconie in Arizona after he spent nearly 10 months on the run. He...
The Supreme Court rejected former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page’s attempt to revive a lawsuit against former FBI Director James Comey and others over their roles in a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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A spokesman for former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Kentucky republican was admitted to a hospital on Sunday.
After demolishing Gov. Janet Mills in Maine's Democratic primary, the political newbie confronts a major challenge running against the Senate's longest-serving Republican woman.
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Keir Starmer has announced his social media ban for under-16s. The proposals are tougher than expected, and include a ban on major apps such as TikTok, Instagram, X, Snapchat, YouTube and Facebook. Plus, the Makerfield byelection is on Thursday. How will team Starmer be preparing for a potential And...
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Crude oil prices fell over 4% to their lowest levels in over three months Sunday after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a ceasefire extension that could lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.Why it matters: Severe restrictions on oil traffic through the strait since the conflict began in late Feb...
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is facing a major challenge ahead of his first monetary policy meeting leading the central bank on the heels of an alarming May inflation report. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is almost certain to keep rates unchanged at the end of its two-day meeting Wed...
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President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron avoided any public tussles over foreign policy at the opening events of the G7 summit in Evian, France, on Monday. The two leaders have had a complicated relationship during Trump’s second term as the United States imposed “Liberation Day” ...
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ICE arrested an alleged leader of two foreign terrorist organizations in North Carolina after a vehicle pursuit and crash as he allegedly fled to Mexico.
The administration keeps confronting opportunities to make clear it won’t deploy ICE agents to polling places. It also keeps leaving the door wide open. The post The problem(s) with Mullin’s answer on...
George Conway pledged to pursue Trump's third impeachment and put him "away for good" in a new ad as he runs for Congress in Manhattan's primary.
As Washington and Tehran move to end the war, Gulf governments face the risk of deepening sectarian tensions.
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear gunmakers’ challenge to New York’s law allowing civil lawsuits against gun manufacturers, wholesalers, and dealers, leaving in place a lower court ruling that upheld the measure. The move is a setback for the firearms industry, which argued that New York’s l...
Democrats are approaching what could be their most wide-open presidential primary in decades, but I'd venture a confident prediction today: one of the two Georgia senators will be on the party's ticket in 2028.
A plurality of respondents to a recent NBC News survey said they want Democrats to win back control of Congress, with less than five months before the midterms. The poll, conducted from May 29 through June 7, found that 49 percent of 2,400 registered voters want Democrats to control Congress after ...
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The GOP appointee said the justices should weigh in on the standard for evaluating student free speech claims. He was alone on Monday. The post Alito dissents from rejection of anti-abortion student’...
A new report claims Trump's Liberation Day tariffs suppressed hiring by up to 1 million jobs and cost American families roughly $1,000 more in 2025.
Kemp’s last-minute public blessing is a boon for the lieutenant governor ahead of Tuesday’s runoff against billionaire Rick Jackson.
President Donald Trump’s demand that Congress attach a voter identification bill to an extension of a government spy program will complicate efforts to pass reauthorization of the intelligence authority. Over the weekend, the president urged Congress to tie the SAVE America Act to a renewal of Secti...
No, the State Department isn’t orchestrating a secretive, neo-Nazi plot. The post The Overblown ‘Remigration’ Office Controversy appeared first on The American Conservative.
Democratic heads exploded last week. It could have been for any of the typical reasons. A black teen who cruelly stabbed a white kid was convicted of murder. Congress passed the Secure America Act, providing an additional $70 billion in funding for immigration enforcement (every single Democrat vote...
The White House last year weighed suspending habeas corpus rights, which allow for a challenge of someone’s detention, for immigrants in the country illegally, according to a new book from two New York Times reporters. According to a report from the Times published Monday featuring details from “Reg...
Boris Epshteyn is such a fixture in Donald Trump's White House that he's in Oval Office meetings when some attendees don't even know it.Epshteyn, the president's senior personal counsel, speaks with "the boss" so often that Trump sometimes puts him on speakerphone without telling others in the room,...
The Ninth Circuit illogically excludes firearm parts from the text of “arms.”
Washington Examiner White House reporter Christian Datoc described the various political, military, and diplomatic pressures on President Donald Trump as the United States nears a peace deal with Iran. “Ultimately, President Trump has a mountain to climb, not only because of ending the war itself, b...
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. The post Monday’s Campaign Round-Up, 6.15.26: On Primary Eve, Kemp and Trump differ on Georgia race appeared first on MS NOW...
The Big Bone Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky, on May 19, 2026. | Jeffrey Dean/Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s been a pivotal last week for the largest Protestant Christian denomination in the United States. The Southern Baptist Convention took a series of moves to the social and theological righ...
It's becoming common for campaigns to seek out viral moments and the support of internet stars to reach new voters. But the strategy, albeit flashy, has yielded mixed results in key races this year.
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After congressional Republicans let expanded subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans expire at the end of last year, some families have decided the price is too great of a financial burden and canceled their coverage.
There’s been win after win for the nation’s most ardent gun rights groups, but backers of tighter limits say the push could endanger the public.
French President Emmanuel Macron refused to drop the country’s digital tax after Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on wine, setting the stage for a confrontation when the two leaders meet at the Group of Seven summit in Evian.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into him.Why it matters: Newsom alleged in a video that the DOJ is going after him at President Trump's direction because he's "considering running for president."The big picture: The apparent probe w...
Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 was not for the fighters – or for the audience. The post The White House’s UFC fight had only one big winner appeared first on MS NOW.
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Tournament favorite Spain is at odds with the U.S. president over Iran, Gaza, defense spending, immigration and green energy.
President Trump celebrated his 80th birthday Sunday night with a UFC cage-fighting event on the south lawn of the White House.
Since trying to improve American policy seems pointless at the moment, I’ve turned to make-believe. But useful make-believe. How much more prosperous would China be if Xi Jinping had been a modest pro-market reformer when taking over in late 2012, and stayed that way? The post What If Xi Was An Econ...
Georgia federal judge Eleanor Ross apologizes to former law clerk amid sexual misconduct allegations as House Republicans file impeachment articles.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is urging Black voters to turn out in the midterm elections, speaking at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s former church in Atlanta, while also drawing on the energy of Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" to build a multi-racial coalition of Democratic voters....
The UFC extravaganza at the White House was not a celebration of a sport, it was a celebration of slop. We have always been a violent country, but have we always been such a shameless one?
President Donald Trump makes his way to board Air Force One before departing Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on June 15, 2026. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images One should never underestimate President Donald Trump’s ability to use sheer obfuscation to extract “victory” from a situation where the ...
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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is on a hot streak.In the last month alone, four progressive House candidates she's endorsed in open primaries have cruised to victory, making her an early kingmaker as she weighs a 2028 presidential run.Why it matters: AOC has gotten on a roll by deploying a d...
The deal is a major breakthrough in the conflict that set the Middle East aflame and shook the global economy. However, it did not resolve critical issues set aside for further negotiations.
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Platner’s backers in Maine say with Trump in office and Senate control on the line, the bar is low and the stakes are high: “Purity politics don’t get us anywhere.”
The US Supreme Court declined to put new limits on President Donald Trump’s tariff authority, leaving in place import taxes imposed during his first term on hundreds of billions of dollars in goods from China.
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Trump joins G7 summit with world leaders to discuss trade, artificial intelligence, China dependency, and NATO amid America First tariff tensions.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with investigative sports journalist Karim Zidan about the politics of the UFC fight night at the White House.
The prospect of a reopened Strait of Hormuz and a pending U.S.-Iran peace deal could help ease the big inflation risk hanging over Kevin Warsh's first Federal Reserve meeting as chairman."Ships are starting to move, many loaded up with Oil, out of the Strait of Hormuz," President Trump said Monday m...
The post Why We Changed Our Code of Ethics to Address Prediction Markets appeared first on ProPublica.
Aaron Terr (FIRE) reports, based on accounts from various publications. Some excerpts: The incident occurred outside a conference hall where… The post "American Diabetes Association Ejects Researchers from Conference for Sharing Editorial from Its Own Journal" appeared first on Reason.com.
With fewer competitive House races and a new redistricting arms race underway, voters need more choices – not fewer. According to the Cook Political […] The post Locked Out of Democracy appeared first on No Labels.
Haitian national sentenced for $58 million health care fraud conspiracy exploiting the 340B Drug Pricing Program, prompting congressional calls for reform.
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As the West debated a green energy future, Beijing was building it.
Supreme Court declined to revive Carter Page's lawsuit against ex-FBI Director James Comey over alleged unlawful surveillance in the Russia probe.