Creature From the Green Lagoon
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Trump’s slimy, stinky swamp within the swamp.
JoAnna Mendoza, a Democrat challenging Representative Juan Ciscomani in a tossup district, is leaning into her painful and unique life story...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Beto Coral’s criticism of a presidential candidate in his home country of Colombia undermined U.S. forei...
The arts center says it pulled President Trump’s name from the building front. But the result remains hidden by tarps, prompting questions a...
President Trump showed off the new red, white and blue Boeing 747, a gift from Qatar that prompted a storm of criticism from lawmakers, befo...
As National Park Service crews try to clean the algae that turned the water bright green, another problem has developed: The “American flag...
President Trump said the Italian leader had “begged” him to take a photo together at the Group of 7 summit in France. The remarks come as th...
The president is planning another self-aggrandizing spectacle.
Mr. Charles, a conservative Republican, had led the field ahead of a ranked-choice runoff. But Ms. Pingree, a former Maine House speaker, ha...
Mr. Vance said earlier at a press briefing that he did not know if he would travel to Switzerland on Friday for the talks, where he was init...
The director of national intelligence’s office was created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Now some lawmakers want to shrink it.
Two members of Gov. Jared Polis’s board that reviews commutation requests came forward to say the secretive panel had twice rejected the rel...
A three-judge appeals panel threw out a lower court’s order requiring the federal government to restore a memorial and historical display at...
I emigrated from the Soviet Union decades ago, and recently toured Thomas Jefferson’s home with my American-born history-buff son.
A new book by John Leganski, the floor manager for former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, offers a rare behind-the-scenes account of how President T...
James Dolan said he was “very proud” to bring his championship team to Washington. It would be the first N.B.A. team to visit the White Hous...
It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billi...
Democrats and some Republicans excoriated President Trump’s pick for a top national security job. The president pushed ahead anyway.
The president upended the majority leader’s plans by yanking his intelligence nominee from a confirmation hearing and insisting on an end to...
The 2024 election showed that the party is simply not large enough to command a majority of the country.
The administration argues that FISA Section 702 must be renewed to preserve national security, but the president himself has threatened to v...
Cameron Hamilton, who briefly led the agency on an acting basis last year but was fired for contradicting the president, also said he would...
President Trump denied that the United States would be part of a $300 billion rebuilding fund for Tehran and argued that his agreement was b...
“Voter fraud” is not about fraud. It is about who votes and how.
The runways at Ronald Reagan National Airport will be closed after noon on July 4, and for several hours on July 3. Other celebrations surro...
Four G.O.P. senators crossed party lines to back the resolution to direct President Trump to halt the war in Iran and seek authorization fro...
Officials announced that the Education Department’s civil rights office would also be broken off, the most aggressive move yet to dismantle...
Only the hackiest screenwriter imaginable would script America’s debasement this way.
In a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and national parks officials, lawmakers said that members of the administration could face fin...
The health secretary is trying to restart the work of a panel that advises the government on vaccines, after a judge froze its decisions and...
Administration officials have suggested suspending a legal principle that protects against unlawful detention, and struggled to accurately d...
Plus, crafting the perfect grass for the World Cup.
Secret memos show that the White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit habeas corpus rights f...
A bitterly fought Democratic primary in New York’s Hudson Valley will determine who takes on Representative Mike Lawler, one of the more vul...
Nominating Mr. Blanche to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer crosses a red line, and the Senate needs to defeat him.