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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For most of the nineteenth century, an American did not so much read the time as look up at the sun.

Long before Concordia Parish, the machinery of legalized segregation was assembled in Louisiana.

To understand why Russian tanks rolled toward Kyiv in 2022, you have to start roughly eleven centuries earlier, with a medieval federation of principalities called Kyivan Rus.

The framers of the Constitution did not leave the taxing power to inference.

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.