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8h ago

21-year-old identified as gunman in shooting on security checkpoint near White House, sources say

Sources identified the suspected gunman as Nasire Best, who had previous encounters with the Secret Service. A bystander was wounded in the crossfire.

10h ago

The MAGA-backed โ€˜Enhanced Gamesโ€™ are an ethical nightmare

Donald Trump Jr., Peter Thiel and other MAGA figureheads are paying to watch athletes while hopped up on steroids.

10h ago

The reason Trump may not care about his plummeting popularity

The president is making himself less popular on an almost daily basis, for the pettiest of reasons.

10h ago

Polls show many Republicans don’t believe these three facts. That’s bad for America โ€” and the GOP.

The party canโ€™t make good arguments or put forward solutions unless itโ€™s grounded in reality.

10h ago

This omission in Todd Blancheโ€™s testimony says so much about the Trump Justice Department

How a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing became a window into institutional collapse.

10h ago

There’s one clear takeaway from the hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks

Cases of the Andes virus have been rising in Argentina. Government-supported research is critical if we hope to address evolving pathogens.

22h ago

Trump announces โ€˜largely negotiatedโ€™ agreement with Iran

โ€œFinal aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced shortly,โ€ Trump announced on Truth Social.

1d ago

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tells West Point graduates theyโ€™re โ€˜readyโ€™ for war

Without citing the U.S. war with Iran, Hegseth told the graduating cadets, โ€œWe are sending you, perhaps, to war, and you are ready.โ€

1d ago

โ€˜They are being scammed:โ€™ The week Republicans told Trump no

GOP lawmakers broke with the president on Iran, a compensation fund that could go to Jan. 6 rioters and his ballroom renovation โ€” and they are increasingly bleak about November.

1d ago

Trumpโ€™s loyalists face a reconciliation mess of his own making

The presidentโ€™s impulses keep getting in the way of Republican lawmakers trying to deliver for him.

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