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Billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Yass along with crypto industry donors helped President Donald Trump raise $236 million for his political operation in the first six months of 2025 — an unprecedented sum for a second-term...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Josh Hawley's bipartisan proposal to ban members of Congress from trading stock advanced through a Senate panel last week and stirred a dustup with the White House, just a week after U.S. Rep. Mike ...Read more

Secretary General Antonio Guterres is slashing more than $700 million in spending and laying plans to overhaul the United Nations as its largest sponsor, the U.S., pulls back support.

Guterres’s plan calls for 20% cuts ...Read more

The same day President Donald Trump launched his AI Action Plan, his Energy Secretary Chris Wright pulled federal support for a power project with ties to renewable energy that could help that plan. Not coincidentally, ...Read more

One of the barriers to understanding the world is our fixation on sports thinking: Who is winning and who is catching up? This has long been true of politics — we focus obsessively on the race for the White House while ...Read more

This editorial board is a firm believer in the importance of the Fourth Estate, which serves as a fundamental check on power. But we’re well aware many Americans have their doubts.

Trust in the press has been on the ...Read more

Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. director of national intelligence, admittedly struck the wrong note in a melodramatic video she put out after visiting Hiroshima, which was destroyed by an atomic bomb exactly 80 years ago.

“As ...Read more

There is an ominous sense in the air in Britain — a sense that the country is headed toward the rocks and that the captain has no idea how to steer the ship. This feeling is vague — hardly the stuff of graphs or ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A jar of pickled mango, a popular Indian condiment, costs $2.99 at Pioneer Cash & Carry in Artesia. But that price won’t hold for long.

The grocery store, nestled in the heart of Artesia’s Little India...Read more

MAYFIELD, Ky. — Mitch McConnell has heard the messaging, and he’s seen the ads.

Saturday morning, in front of a crowd of Republicans gathered before the famous political speaking event Fancy Farm, the retiring Senator...Read more

Canada’s decision to retaliate against U.S. tariffs earlier this year appears to be driving a divergence in how President Donald Trump is dealing with America’s neighbors.

Until this week, Canada and Mexico received ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — University of California leaders face a difficult choice after the U.S. Department of Justice said this week that UCLA had violated the civil rights of Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests and ...Read more

Six months into his comeback term, Donald Trump has taken full ownership of the U.S. economy. For better or worse, his party must now sell it to voters.

The president has hailed the world’s “hottest” economy – ...Read more

President Donald Trump suddenly has a chance to fill an opening at the Federal Reserve earlier than expected, after Fed Governor Adriana Kugler announced her resignation Friday.

It may also force him to pick the next Fed...Read more

Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a scientific researcher who has lived in the U.S. since he was 5 and who holds a valid green card, traveled to his native South Korea recently for his kid brother’s wedding.

But when Kim ...Read more

History predicts that Republicans will suffer losses in next year’s midterm elections, and Democrats have made clear they will try to use President Donald Trump’s big, beautiful bill against the GOP. The progressive ...Read more

Two scenes. Two storytellers. Two visions for a climate-altered American West.

On an overcast spring morning, I hopped a low metal fence off a lonely dirt road in the Nevada desert, following botanist Naomi Fraga. She ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — It’s been roughly six months since President Donald Trump brought a slew of Floridians with him to Washington, appointing them to key positions in the White House and across the federal government.

The ...Read more

As we approach the 80th anniversary of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this month, on Aug 6 and 9, respectively, the danger of nuclear war is great and growing.

So far this year, five of the nine nations that ...Read more

Texas has the world’s 8th largest economy, with its sights on No. 7 France, and has been a model of strength and resilience for decades. Since the pandemic, it has had higher GDP growth and a lower unemployment rate than...Read more