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When a new administration moves to Washington, DC, there are always changes in policy priorities and personnel. Alex, a lawyer in the Department of Justice’s Voting Section, had survived Donald Trump’s first term, and thought he could make it through the second. Within hours of the president’s inauguration, he knew he had misjudged the situation.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing a potential floor revolt Wednesday that could derail three major GOP priorities and bring the House to a standstill. The House Rules Committee advanced a procedural measure on Tuesday to tee up floor consideration of three separate bills: an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance

East Asian countries have long balanced U.S. and Chinese influence, but the two countries’ intensifying rivalry is increasingly pushing them to choose a side. China’s explosive economic growth over the past few decades has threatened the United States’s long-standing role as the dominant power in East Asia, with China now outcompeting the U.S. in trade

The Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases in which the Trump administration is trying to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria on Wednesday, marking the latest major test to the administration’s immigration agenda at the high court. The justices will hear oral arguments in the consolidated cases Mullin v. Doe and

A robot’s claw hurtles toward a light bulb on a table. I wince, waiting for the crunch. But suddenly the claw decelerates. It starts gingerly pawing around the table, as if searching for its glasses on the nightstand. It gently positions the bulb between its two pincers. The bulb rolls away. The claw goes chasing

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) was a no-show at a Minnesota House oversight hearing on Tuesday about how his administration is actively combating fraud in the state’s taxpayer-funded childcare services, notably declining to testify on the same day that the FBI raided nearly two dozen facilities in Minneapolis, including daycares, suspected of stealing federal public assistance

When a new administration moves to Washington, DC, there are always changes in policy priorities and personnel. Alex, a lawyer in the Department of Justice’s Voting Section, had survived Donald Trump’s first term, and thought he could make it through the second. Within hours of the president’s inauguration, he knew he had misjudged the situation.

Benching the federal voter ID and election bill, a procedural move that removed the proposal from official pending business, was required to advance the GOP’s $70 billion plan last week to end-run Democrats and advance a three-year funding framework for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But with no commitment to return to the SAVE Act, its

Like the brand’s easy-to-assemble desks, the Align chair has a deceptive simplicity with relatively few parts. The chair required less than 15 minutes and only three screws to put together, using an Allen wrench that came in the box. (While the QR code, on a chair released in March, did not yet link up to

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has been floated as a possible Republican candidate in the 2028 presidential election. His recent governing style, marked by legislation aligned with broader GOP priorities and a sharpened political posture, is reminiscent of the approach he took leading up to his 2024 presidential run. DeSantis challenged President Donald Trump in 2024