Bitter partisanship threatens to engulf Senate as critical deadlines loom
The battle over nominations is spelling trouble for the Senate in other areas, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle feel the pressure to ratchet up the partisanship...
How Texas Republicans want to dismantle Democratic districts
The congressional map Texas Republicans hope to enact so efficiently distributes GOP voters that last year, President Donald Trump would’ve won all of the 30 districts...
Rwanda to take migrants deported from US
Rwanda agreed to take as many as 250 migrants deported from the US, part of efforts across the continent to placate Washington in the face of tariff threats and travel...
He fled Haiti and became integral to a conservative community. Now they’re fighting his deportation.
LIMA, Ohio — Andy and Amy Schafer live with their five children in a reliably conservative corner of rural Ohio, where they hit the pool in the summer and attend high s...
Democrats draw up plans to retaliate if Republicans gerrymander Texas — but they face legal hurdles
Democrats in America's two biggest blue states are hatching plans to respond in kind to a mid-decade move by Texas to draw a friendlier House map for Republicans.Retali...
Trump administration rolls back Elon Musk’s email telling federal employees to justify their jobs
Federal employees will no longer have to meet Elon Musk’s demand that they list their weekly accomplishments in an email or risk termination, the Trump administration s...
Trump cuts shut down an LGBTQ+ youth suicide lifeline. What happens now?
Becca Nordeen had just left a town hall for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline when she received some shocking news. As the senior vice-president of crisis intervention...
FBI report disproves Trump’s claim of a Biden-era out-of-control crime wave
When Donald Trump fought for and won the 2024 presidential election, his victory was built partly on the false assertion that Democrats were responsible for an out-of-c...
Voters share the economic impacts of Trump’s megabill in battleground Arizona
Opening a new restaurant is always a risk, but this one even more so: It’s a scorching summer in the Arizona desert, meat prices are up and the economy is unpredictable...
Contributor: The true cost of abandoning science
A view of the Milky Way arching over Joshua trees. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)Any trip to the dark night skies of our Southern California deserts reveals a v...