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President Donald Trump is staring down what allies and political operatives are describing as the most challenging stretch of his second term in office, just months before voters are set to determine control of Capitol Hill in the midterm elections. Trump’s approval rating as of Monday was nearly 17 points underwater in the RealClearPolitics polling

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is putting his political capital on the line in a trio of closely watched House primaries, backing a slate of progressive challengers that could reshape the city’s congressional delegation. Mamdani has endorsed three progressive Democratic candidates: Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Brad Lander. The New York City mayor

Who’d have thought Helen of Troy would cause so much trouble? Earlier this year, certain quarters of the internet spun out at news that Kenyan-Mexican Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o was rumored to appear as the impossibly beautiful Spartan noble Helen—whose face, it was later written, launched a thousand ships—in Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming Hollywood Homeric epic

The model I tested isn’t the base configuration, which only features a 1920 x 1200 display. While that’s perfectly usable, the $60 upgrade to the 2880 x 1800, 120-Hz display is a no-brainer. Unfortunately, HP forces you to also upgrade the CPU to at least the 12-core Snapdragon X2 Elite to get it. It’s a

If you’ve given much thought to the Federal Communications Commission in recent years, it probably had something to do with Brendan Carr. The group’s chairman since 2025, Carr has been on an ongoing, public rampage against freedom of speech: he’s gone after late-night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, threatened to revoke broadcast licenses over Iran war

The contents of a ransom note sent to an Arizona television station claim that Nancy Guthrie died shortly after she was abducted. The note was sent in February, shortly after Guthrie disappeared, and claimed that she died soon after her abduction. Guthrie, 84, is the mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie. She was last seen

EXCLUSIVE — A conservative Latino advocacy group isn’t waiting until the fall to ramp up its campaign to help Republicans perform well with Hispanic voters in November’s midterm elections. Five months before voters go to the polls, LIBRE Action, part of the center-right Koch political network, has started campaigning for Republican Senate candidates in the

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has introduced legislation to create a $7 trillion AI sovereign wealth fund, to be managed by a seven-member commission that would have sweeping influence over the emerging sector and the broader U.S. economy. The Sanders proposal is an enormously ambitious one, particularly as artificial intelligence has been the fastest-growing technology in

In May, the White House announced that its new app would be automatically downloaded onto the work phones of millions of government employees. The problem: Federal workers hate it and can’t get rid of it. Employees of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the State Department, and the Department of Labor (DOL), who spoke to

As the owner of an above-ground pool, I can attest that cleaning leaves, bugs, and other detritus is an everyday chore if the cover is off. I put up with it since my pool is only in use seasonally, but WIRED reviewer Chris Null has an in-ground pool he uses year-round, so he does not