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WASHINGTON — The House did not pass a short-term extension of a powerful surveillance tool Thursday morning as members headed out of town for a recess, all but ensuring the spy power’s statutory authority would lapse ...Read more

NEW YORK — Like legions of young adults before her, Claire Valdez moved to New York in 2015 looking for a better life and a creative outlet for her budding career as a visual artist.

Valdez quickly realized she had to ...Read more

Contrary to any of the polite things Kimberly Guilfoyle has said about Donald Trump Jr. leaving her for Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, America’s ambassador to Greece was privately “seething,” according to a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso boasts of living just a stone’s throw away from where he was born and raised in south Williamsburg.

Four decades later, Reynoso points to a potent track record of ...Read more

More than any other U.S. president in decades, Donald Trump has aggressively pursued military interventions in Latin America.

On Jan. 3, 2026, U.S. special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on...Read more

On June 6, 1966, on a stretch of Highway 51 just south of Hernando, Mississippi, a portly, middle-aged white man named Aubrey Norvell stepped out of a gully, lifted his shotgun and fired three shots at James Meredith, a...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Biden-era push to remove certain social media posts about COVID-19 and the 2020 election and more recent pressure by the Trump administration against TV broadcasters have brought together a bipartisan ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With their sixth consecutive win, Republicans have secured a baseball dynasty, at least on the congressional level.

The GOP clobbered Democrats 11-2 at Wednesday night’s Congressional Baseball Game, ...Read more

NEW YORK — The three rival congressional candidates in the NY-07 Democratic primary agree on two things: President AOC in 2028 and the Knicks in 5.

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Assemblywoman Claire Valdez...Read more

BALTIMORE — U.S. Rep. April McClain Delaney and Democratic challenger David Trone are filling the airwaves with attack ads in their expensive congressional primary race, but have skipped a series of candidate forums ...Read more

The late broadcast journalist David Brinkley once observed: “Objectivity is impossible to normal human behavior. Rather, we ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Despite warnings from the architect of the Capitol about a dire need to renovate the Rayburn House Office Building, lawmakers say they still aren’t fully sold on the project, which could last until 2045 ...Read more

People and businesses nationwide are reckoning with rapidly rising electricity costs. Last year, 80 million people struggled to afford their utility bills. At the same time, electricity demand is newly surging ...Read more

When the Obama Presidential Center opens on June 19, it will arrive with the kind of civic gravity Chicago understands well. A dedication ceremony. A weekend of programming. A new landmark rising from Jackson Park after ...Read more

At this time of year, family calendars implode under the weight of school performances, sports tournaments, award ceremonies, teacher gifts, graduation traditions, summer camp forms and holiday travel plans. How to deal ...Read more

The Trump administration’s embrace of coal power is a timely and essential response to a three-headed energy emergency. The United States is facing an electricity supply crisis shaped by rapidly eroding grid reliability,...Read more

The turmoil engulfing CBS News and “60 Minutes” has left me wondering what my grandfather Andy Rooney would make of it all.

Rooney died in 2011 after more than three decades as a fixture of the newsmagazine, and with ...Read more

The fact that a pair of Republican senators are being heralded for doing their jobs reveals just how much Congress has atrophied, especially during President Donald Trump’s second term.

Freed from the president’s ...Read more

While the president of the United States has the power under Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution to appoint justices of the Supreme Court and other federal judges, all of whom have lifetime tenure, the ...Read more

For all the consternation surrounding the choice of Bill Pulte to oversee U.S. intelligence agencies, it’s hardly the first time the White House has elevated a partisan with few evident qualifications to fill a top ...Read more