ArticleTrump dis­misses con­cerns over con­di­tions on US air­craft car­rier

Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump dis­missed con­cerns Fri­day over liv­ing con­di­tions and the men­tal health of ser­vice mem­bers on a US air­craft car­rier deployed against Iran, while con­firm­ing the ship would soon rotate out. Asked by report­ers...

ArticleIf even Trump’s right-hand woman can’t cope as a work­ing mother, what chance for ordin­ary mums?

ArticleFBI reports sharp drop in viol­ent crime rate

Viol­ent crime and murder rates across the United States fell sharply between 2024 and 2025, accord­ing to FBI data, the largest year-to-year decrease since the fed­eral gov­ern­ment began track­ing nation­wide crime rates in 1936. The 2025 murder...

ArticleGOP offers free lot­tery access to midterm con­ven­tion

A lot­tery is com­ing to Texas that even some Repub­lican gambling oppon­ents may want to win. Any­one can now enter for a chance to receive free gen­eral-admis­sion or VIP tick­ets to Repub­lic­ans’ first midterm con­ven­tion, sched­uled Sept. 9-10...

ArticleTrump used cater­ing truck, Air Force One decoy in Tur­key

To thwart an alleged Ira­nian assas­sin­a­tion plot fol­low­ing a NATO sum­mit, Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump secretly slipped out of Tur­key on July 8 using an elab­or­ate decep­tion, accord­ing to reports from The Wash­ing­ton Post and The New York...

ArticleThe polit­ical changes you make today can bite you tomor­row

Some­times things go one way, and then they just turn around. What was once an advant­age dis­ap­pears or even turns into a dis­ad­vant­age. It’s that way in just about everything, most espe­cially in polit­ics, where par­tisan advant­ages ebb and...

ArticleThe Trump fam­ily’s unpre­ced­en­ted cash grab

The US gov­ern­ment has ear­marked $1.6 bil­lion to help a small Amer­ican com­pany, Kaz Resources LLC, mine tung­sten in Kaza­kh­stan. There’s a good argu­ment to be made that such an invest­ment is in the national interest. China dom­in­ates the...

ArticleDemo­crats’ pro­gress­ive clashes widen

Pro­gress­ive can­did­ates for gov­ernor in Wis­con­sin and U.S. Sen­ate in Min­nesota made their final pushes ahead of Tues­day’s elec­tion, increas­ing the pres­sure on a Demo­cratic estab­lish­ment that has spent the year on its heels. The...