To understand why the Chinese Communist Party still treats a Beijing house-church pastor as a matter of national security, you have to go back roughly two centuries, to a period when the cross arrived in China not on…

Companies tied to President Trump's adult sons and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's sons stand to profit from federally financed critical-minerals deals their fathers' administration negotiated; in July, Congress opened formal inquiries, while the Trump family says the sons are passive investors who influenced nothing.

Iran let dual citizen Dena Karari go home as U.S. airstrikes continued, with no swap announced, even as Tehran's judiciary denied that anyone had been released.

Kyiv says its drones struck more than a hundred Russian ships in the near-enclosed Sea of Azov in nine days while an industrial-scale campaign sets Russian refineries and tankers ablaze, a strategic turn toward Russia's fuel and sea power that this piece weighs against what independent evidence can actually confirm.

A symbolic amendment that could never become law drew yes votes from nearly half the House Democratic caucus, including the party's own whip and its speaker emerita, even as the minority leader voted no, exposing how much of the fifty-year bipartisan consensus on U.S. aid to Israel has eroded.

Gabriel Perez, who has run Trump's teleprompter since 2016, is on unpaid leave and in settlement talks with federal regulators after Kalshi flagged more than $100,000 in bets he allegedly placed on which words the president would say, a case that tests whether trading on inside knowledge of a speech is even illegal.

After the Supreme Court ruled the president cannot tax imports under emergency powers, the administration is racing to rebuild the same tariffs under older trade statutes before its stopgap 10% surcharge expires on July 24, and its 25% tariff on Brazil is the first one actually imposed.

Eight senators introduced the PROMISE Act to fast-track a solvency plan through Congress ahead of the retirement trust fund's projected 2032 depletion, when an automatic 22 percent benefit cut would take effect; the bill sets the procedure and leaves the hard choices on taxes and benefits for later.

The men who wrote the Constitution had just fought a revolution against a king who could plunge his subjects into war on his own word, and they built the new government to make that impossible.

A U.S. citizen has spent nearly two years in a Chinese jail on an espionage charge his family and the U.S. government both call baseless (The Guardian), and the case fits a pattern that reaches well past one man or one…