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Air National Guard airmen work clearing leaves and debris from McPherson Square Park in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2025. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)

In April 2022, US authorities extradited Juan Orlando Hernández from Honduras to stand trial for running a violent drug trafficking conspiracy and helping to smuggle hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US. In 2024, he was convicted by a New York jury...

Shocking as this moment is, none of us should pretend we weren’t warned. When Donald Trump installed Pete Hegseth — a television provocateur whose public record is soaked in belligerence, booze, and culture-war performance — as America’s Defense...

Terri McCullough, the first woman to serve in a formal role as chief of staff to a House speaker, worked alongside Pelosi on big policy wins and broke a marble ceiling of her own. By Grace Panetta ,�

Apparently, confabulating Trump thinks Somalis are Afghans, as Trump moves to suggest that Somalis in the US are a threat to national security. Money laundering threats might be a little closer to home, considering Epstein’s money laundering. Why did...

Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture. In the beginning, there were turkeys. Benjamin Franklin, of Founding...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been eviscerated over her refusal to help after ICE detained her nephew’s mom. The White House official has gone radio silent since Bruna Ferreira—who is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew—was swept up by...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy groaned to reporters Monday about the “degradation in civility” at airports, urging people to dress “with some respect” as they travel for the holidays. ��

Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, has made it to the big time. The hottest satirical show in town, South Park, has featured the beef-brained, self-branded, paleolithic Homo stultus (aka Homo ignoramus) in its latest commentary on Trump and his fellow...

When court-assigned prosecutor Peter J. Skandalakis dismissed Georgia’s election-interference case and justified his decision by claiming that “reasonable minds could differ” about Donald Trump’s conduct — and that therefore Trump was “entitled to the...