Opinion - Why Columbia gave in to Trump’s extortion
On July 23, Columbia University entered into a resolution agreement with the federal government to settle claims that it didn’t do enough to prevent harassment of Jewis...
‘A nightmare that no one wants’: GOP fears Mastriano’s down-ballot drag in Pennsylvania
President Donald Trump’s team is worried it has a Doug Mastriano problem on its hands.Trump’s advisers privately fear the far-right firebrand could cost Republicans the...
Paul signals Jill Biden, Anthony Fauci could be looked at in autopen probe
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that former first lady Jill Biden and Anthony Fauci could be examined during Congress’s autopen probe.President Trump has railed agai...
Socialism Was Dead. Trump Revived It.
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Trump could get burned by conspiracy theory fires he’s helped spread
Ezra Klein begins one of his recent podcasts by telling a joke that has been making the rounds. Basically, a conspiracy theorist dies and ascends to heaven. God is ther...
Head Start faces new worries about its future with Trump, GOP
Supporters of Head Start are worried about the program’s future as it faces Trump administration calls for budgetary cuts ahead of the next school year.The free, federa...
Trump team’s ‘pocket rescission’ idea runs into GOP opposition
Some Republicans in Congress are uneasy about the possibility the Trump administration will use a “pocket rescission” to claw back already approved government funding a...
Trump's demand for Washington NFL team name change ignores years of psychological data, experts say
President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal if Washington’s NFL team did not restore its name to a racial slur, despite decades of psychological...
Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump’s gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US
The road to four struggling rural hospitals now hosts a political message: “If this hospital closes, blame Trump.”In a series of black-and-yellow billboards erected nea...
Trump once decried the idea of presidential vacations. His Scotland trip is built around golf
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — During sweaty summer months, Abraham Lincoln often decamped about 3 miles (5 kilometers) north of the White House to the Soldiers' Home, a pr...