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  1. Trump’s Tariffs on Hold as President Claims Deal With Canada Is Near

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:08:31 -0000

    Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada was less definitive about what the intense talks produced, saying ‘important work’ remained.
  2. A Stunning Win for the Left in Florida: 6 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Primaries

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:56:00 -0000

    State Representative Angie Nixon, a progressive firebrand, defeated a moderate who dramatically out-raised her with grass-roots enthusiasm. Can it carry her to victory in November?
  3. Mary Peltola and Dan Sullivan Advance in Key Alaska Senate Contest

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:05:21 -0000

    The Democratic former congresswoman and the incumbent Republican senator will face off in November. Whether a potential spoiler candidate with the same name as the senator qualifies alongside them has not been determined.
  4. ‘I’m Not That Informed on National Security,’ Graham Says in South Carolina Debate

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:17:56 -0000

    Senator Darline Graham made the remark in a debate against Representative Ralph Norman, her opponent in the runoff election to succeed her brother, Lindsey Graham. Here are five takeaways from the debate.
  5. Trump to Nominate Heidi Overton, a Top Domestic Policy Aide, for F.D.A. Commissioner

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:01:28 -0000

    Dr. Overton is a fierce opponent of abortion rights and a supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again agenda.
  6. Natalie Harp, Trump’s Most Devoted Aide, Is Always by His Side. What Exactly Does She Do?

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:29:43 -0000

    President Trump’s White House aide Natalie Harp is always by his side. What, exactly, does she do?
  7. Trump’s Ballroom Is Rising at Breakneck Speed: 20 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:47:54 -0000

    Although the fate of the ballroom is tied up in court, the Trump administration argues that the project is too far along to be stopped now.
  8. U.S. Cuts Back Military Drills With South Korea, as Trump Woos Kim Jong-un

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:15:13 -0000

    President Trump had ordered the Defense Department to reduce joint exercises with the key U.S. ally, declaring the drills “hostile” toward North Korea.
  9. Threatening Friends and Courting Enemies in Trump’s ‘Upside-Down World’

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:07:15 -0000

    The president’s hostility to allies like Oman, Canada and South Korea, and his affection for adversaries like North Korea, may still shock some. But it comes as little surprise after a decade of upheaval.
  10. Deadly Israeli Strike on Gaza Raises Doubts About Trump Peace Plan

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:13:16 -0000

    A day after President Trump’s envoy, Jared Kushner, visited Israel to advance a stalled plan for demilitarizing and rebuilding Gaza, the Israeli military said it targeted Hamas commanders.
  11. Humans Love Having Pets. Seems Like Some Other Primates Do, Too.

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:25:45 -0000

    We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may stretch deep into our primate past.
  12. Boyfriend Who Abused Hayden Panettiere Had Returned to Her Life

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:10:31 -0000

    Despite the actress’s efforts to move on from a turbulent relationship with Brian Hickerson, they were together when she went into cardiac arrest and died.
  13. Liberia Agrees to Take 1,200 Deportees From U.S.

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:54:23 -0000

    The arrangement is one of the largest known deals that the Trump administration has struck to expel migrants who cannot be sent back to their home countries.
  14. Haitians in Springfield Hunker Down as ICE Begins Detentions

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:22:12 -0000

    Federal agents have begun detaining Haitians in the Ohio city, signaling an increase in ICE activity that has panicked the community and kept many from leaving home.
  15. Judge Orders New Oversight of Immigrant Children’s Detention

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0000

    After reviewing claims of persistent safety and sanitary failures, the court named two experts to monitor detention conditions across several facilities.
  16. ICE Bars Its Workers From Wearing Meta’s Smart Glasses on the Job

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:53:47 -0000

    The agency joins a growing number of workplaces and groups to ban Meta’s devices, which have spurred privacy concerns.
  17. ZZ Top Drummer Frank Beard Dies at 77

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:33:53 -0000

    The only member of the Texas power trio without a beard, he propelled the band’s blend of boogie, Southern rock and blues for more than a half-century.
  18. Yes, Woke 1.0 Was Crazy. Now Where’s the Accountability?

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:00:07 -0000

    The damage was real and long-lasting.
  19. The ‘Crack Spread’ Is Going to Make Your Life Unpleasant

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:30:16 -0000

    Gas prices are going to remain high. Don’t blame the price of crude oil.
  20. Rosie O’Donnell Rags on Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Claims

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:45:43 -0000

    “I’ll put it this way: If the U.S. is in charge of the strait, then I’m also straight — and let’s face it, I’m not,” the guest host said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
  21. California Passes New Rule Regulating Replacement Car Tires

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:13:45 -0000

    The rule to require efficient replacement tires was praised by environmentalists. But manufacturers warned that the change would hurt American companies and increase tire prices.
  22. Nayib Bukele’s Content Machine Is Reshaping Latin America

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    How El Salvador’s authoritarian leader loomed over Colombia’s Presidential race.
  23. The Big, Dumb, Gluttonous Fun of America’s Semiquincentennial

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In D.C. and the Dakotas, at rodeos and powwows, celebrating the country means taking in pride and disappointment and fellow-feeling.
  24. How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil?

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country.
  25. The End of the European Summer

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand.
  26. The Children a Scientist Took Home

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S.
  27. Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The SAVE America Act is just one part of a package that includes an executive order and threats of prosecution, all in an effort to make Trump’s math work.
  28. How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them on.
  29. Is D.N.C. Chair the Worst Job in Washington?

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:13:00 -0000

    The organization is holding its annual summer meeting, and onlookers are calling for the head of its leader, Ken Martin. Then again, the Democrats are always doing that kind of thing.
  30. Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo?

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A death during an ICE traffic stop raises outrage in Houston—and in Mexico.
  31. What Do India’s Gen Z Protests Mean for Modi?

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:19:00 -0000

    A movement of young people frustrated with India’s education system and economy has become the most serious challenge yet to an increasingly authoritarian government.
  32. Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
  33. Will Left-Wing Democrats Reinvent the Party or Hurt Its Chances in November?

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Bernie Sanders’s erstwhile campaign manager explains why he thinks it’s the former.
  34. The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

    Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
  35. How I Became a Subaru Socialist

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark.
  36. A Trump Grift Too Far?

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A scheme to charge Wall Street traders for an early look at the President’s comments on Truth Social has generated outrage and a lawsuit.
  37. The Red Sox Cannot Be Made to Make Any Sense

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Teams get hot, then cold; they get lucky, then unlucky. Records rarely paint a full picture of a season—especially for fans determined to believe in another comeback story.
  38. If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.
  39. Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0000

    The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do.
  40. Israel’s Leaders Find Allies Among the Global Far Right

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:36:48 -0000

    Support for the nation is becoming an increasingly polarizing issue in politics around the world.
  41. What Francesca Hong’s Defeat Means for Democrats

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:23:56 -0000

    The democratic socialist’s rise in Wisconsin was supposed to portend a major breakthrough for the left. Her narrow loss should still be a wake-up call for the Party’s establishment.
  42. Minnesota Primary-Election Results

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:37:23 -0000

    Peggy Flanagan wins the state’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate; Mike Lindell, a close ally to President Donald Trump, loses the Republican gubernatorial primary.
  43. South Carolina Primary-Election Results: Graham and Norman Advance

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:37:02 -0000

    In the special Republican primary to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away in July, his sister Darline Graham and Representative Ralph Norman will move on to a runoff election in late August.
  44. Wisconsin Primary-Election Results: David Crowley Wins

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:36:31 -0000

    The Milwaukee County executive defeated Francesca Hong, a Democratic Socialist who was widely considered the front-runner in the Democratic primary for governor.
  45. What a Blighted Beach Town Says About England’s Forgotten North

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Blackpool, a vacation spot known as the Vegas of the North, has become a symbol of working-class fun.
  46. An Israeli Satirist’s Bid to Save His Country’s Democracy

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:25:35 -0000

    Lior Schleien used to host hit TV shows. Now he posts videos of discussions with young people, the majority of whom currently tend right, which garner millions of views.