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Ever since Donald Trump won the 2016 election, I have operated under the assumption that all Americans would understand the ...

When President Donald Trump signed the pardons of Jan. 6 defendants, many 2028 Democratic hopefuls didn’t acknowledge it. And few got sucked into an outrage cycle over Elon Musk’s straight-arm gesture ...

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Michael Madigan’s jury is made up of ordinary Illinoisans whose lives have likely been affected by the former speaker, given ...

Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the ...

If you’re looking for me to sugarcoat the reality we’re facing, I can’t do that,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett tells Harper’s Bazaar ...

We saw two assassination attempts, the most consequential presidential debate ever, the withdrawal from the race of an incumbent president after he won nearly all of his party's primary delegates, and ...