Section

Politics

More in Politics

An empty veterans clinic exam room with a vacant chair and cold light through the blinds

Not Just Kids: Transgender Health Care Rollback Now Reaches Adults, Veterans, and Federal Workers

For three years, the political fight over transgender medicine was sold to the public…

By Mark Masterson · May 26

A black presidential limousine and SUV motorcade parked at the covered entrance of a US military medical center under an overcast sky

Trump Heads to Walter Reed for a Third Checkup in 13 Months as Health Questions Outpace the Answers

President Donald Trump arrives at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday for…

By Mark Masterson · May 26

Rows of white marble headstones with small American flags at a military cemetery at sunrise

Trump Marks Memorial Day With a 6 a.m. Truth Social Tirade Against ‘Dumocrats’

President Donald Trump opened Memorial Day with a pre-dawn run of Truth Social posts…

By Mark Masterson · May 25

Law enforcement officers stand behind yellow police tape on a cordoned street outside a neoclassical government building at dusk

A Gunman Is Dead Outside the White House, the Third Gunfire Incident Near Trump in a Month

A gunman who fired on Secret Service officers outside the White House was killed,…

By Mark Masterson · May 25

A lone traveler seen from behind pulls a suitcase and holds a passport and documents in a quiet airport departure hall at dawn

Green Card Overhaul Could Force Hundreds of Thousands to Leave the U.S. to Apply

The Trump administration will require most green card applicants to leave the U.S. and…

By Mark Masterson · May 25

Colbert Signs Off Tonight as Fallon and Kimmel Go Dark for His Final Late Show

Colbert Signs Off Tonight as Fallon and Kimmel Go Dark for His Final Late Show

Stephen Colbert signs off CBS's Late Show tonight as Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel…

By Mark Masterson · May 21

Dark wood-paneled government office with a financial trading terminal on the executive desk beside stacked federal disclosure documents, an empty leather chair pushed back, US flag in deep background.

3,700 Trades by Trump: The Inside-Information Corruption Question

The Office of Government Ethics released two Form 278-T disclosures last week showing roughly…

By Mark Masterson · May 19

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington D.C. at dusk, American flag flying above warmly lit interior windows

$10 Billion IRS Suit Becomes a $1.8 Billion ‘Slush Fund’ for Trump’s Allies

Trump dropped his $10 billion IRS lawsuit on Monday. The same day, the DOJ…

By Mark Masterson · May 19

Older voter in a barn coat slipping a ballot into a wooden ballot box at a Kentucky polling place at dusk, with a wall of red, white, and blue Republican primary signs to one side, an American flag and curtained voting booth, and a county courthouse silhouette through the window

Trump Bet $32 Million on Crushing Thomas Massie. Kentucky Voters Get the Final Word Today

The most expensive House primary in American history reaches its conclusion today in Kentucky.…

By Mark Masterson · May 19

Night view from a Moscow apartment balcony of an oil refinery burning in the distance, searchlights crossing the sky and faint drone tracers overhead, residential apartment blocks in the mid-ground with windows lit

Ukraine’s 556-Drone Barrage Brings the War Home to Moscow

Ukraine's 556-drone barrage on Moscow killed three near the capital and hit the city's…

By Mark Masterson · May 18

Cinematic dusk view of a four-reactor nuclear power plant complex in an arid desert with sodium-amber security lighting, distant mountains, and a faint drone silhouette in a stormy violet sky; an orange emergency glow rises from a peripheral generator suggesting recent damage

Drone Strike Hits UAE Nuclear Power Plant: Houthis Claim Attack as Iran War Spirals Beyond Borders

A drone struck the perimeter of the UAE's Barakah Nuclear Power Plant on Saturday,…

By Mark Masterson · May 18

Dimly lit federal data operations center: wall of monitors showing voter registration records with flagged entries, a holographic US map highlighting database queries, and a paper voter registration form on a desk.

67 Million Voter Records Checked: Inside the Trump Administration’s Controversial Midterm Eligibility Purge

The Trump administration has run 67 million voter registrations through DHS databases ahead of…

By Mark Masterson · May 18

Archive

Broadcast news studio scene with curved video wall showing a Brent crude candlestick chart climbing, a glowing amber map of the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, and a stacked data panel reading gasoline 3.58 per gallon and inflation 3.8 percent year over year. A ticker bar runs across the bottom of the wall and a dark anchor desk sits in the foreground

Iran Ceasefire Expires With No Deal in Sight as Gas Prices and 6% Inflation Squeeze American Households

Pacific Ocean map showing a broken golden arc from Washington DC to Taipei with a pause symbol and a red beam from Beijing, with data panels labeled Taiwan Arms Package 14B Status Pending and US China Summit Beijing May 2026

Trump Waffles on $14 Billion Taiwan Arms Deal After Xi Summit, Leaving Taipei in Limbo

A generic American gas station at golden hour with a tall illuminated price sign showing regular at 4.89, plus at 4.99 and premium at 5.19 per gallon, a sedan parked at the pump, long shadows across the asphalt, small-town buildings in the distance

Trump Says Americans’ Finances Aren’t ‘Even a Little Bit’ a Factor

The U.S. Supreme Court building west facade at dusk with marble columns lit and a closed case folder resting on the topmost marble step in the foreground

The Supreme Court Just Saved Mifepristone Telehealth, Days After Trump Pushed Out the FDA Chief

The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Building in Washington D.C. at twilight, with an empty news-press podium in the foreground and a faint candlestick chart and .53 gas-price digit board overlaid in the background

Kevin Warsh Takes the Fed Today, and the Country’s Inflation Math Just Got Harder

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping stand together in the red and gold Great Hall of the People in Beijing as a Chinese honor guard stands at attention

Xi Downgrades Trump in Beijing

A dark map of the North Atlantic shows a thick bright arc of aid from Europe reaching Ukraine and a thin faint arc from North America fading before it crosses the ocean

Europe Approved €90 Billion for Ukraine. Washington Is Still Fighting Over $400 Million

Supreme Court of the United States exterior at sunset with a face-down campaign sign on the plaza, evoking the Court's vacatur of the Alabama redistricting order

SCOTUS Lets Alabama Erase a Black-Majority District Eight Days Before the Primary

Empty wooden press-briefing podium with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seal in a dim federal press room, suggesting an unfilled commissioner post

Makary Out as FDA Chief One Day Before Senate Testimony, Pushed Over Mifepristone and Vape Fights

An empty eastern European urban street at twilight, autumn leaves on cracked pavement, low brick apartment buildings, faint columns of smoke against a dusk sky

Trump’s Three-Day Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire Buckles on Day Two as Both Sides Trade Strikes

An open leather portfolio of unreadable typed pages on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office at sunset

Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts Drug Cartels Above ISIS as America’s Top Threat

A US passport on a wooden desk next to an open envelope from the United States Department of State and a legal pad

US Passport Revocations for Unpaid Child Support Start Friday: Who Is Affected and What to Know

An empty judge's chair under the Department of Justice seal in a deserted American immigration courtroom

Trump DOJ Fires 100+ Immigration Judges, Recruits ‘Deportation Judges’ to Speed Mass Removals

A single etched glass bottle of amber bourbon on a polished dark walnut desk, with an out-of-focus federal seal on a wood-paneled wall, a banker's lamp, a leather portfolio, and a closed laptop in soft warm light

“Ka$h” on the Rocks: Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Bottles Push the FBI Director’s Self-Branding Past the Ethics Line

Paparazzi photographers with cameras and a single flashbulb burst gathered around a black SUV outside a Parisian hotel at dusk, with a newspaper kiosk in the foreground

The Perry-Trudeau Relationship Is Justin Trudeau’s Most Effective Post-Political Move

Obama Colbert Interview

Obama’s Colbert Appearance Turns a Sunsetting Late Show into a Closing Argument [VIDEO]

Rudy Giuliani found liable

Rudy Giuliani Hospitalized in Critical Condition: The Fall of ‘America’s Mayor’ From Ground Zero to a Big Zero

wind farm projects cancelled by windmill hater trump

Pentagon Blocks 165 US Wind Farm Projects: Trump Administration Cites National Security to Freeze All Onshore and Offshore Wind Development