Senators vote to withhold their own pay during government shutdowns
WASHINGTON — Senators unanimously approved a measure Thursday to withhold their own pay during federal government shutdowns
Suspect arrested in connection to murder of University Washington student
A man wanted in connection to the slaying of a transgender University of Washington student surrendered to police, authorities said Thursday
Bill Cassidy’s vaccine advocacy is putting his Senate future in peril as contends with MAHA
Sen. Bill Cassidy’s advocacy for vaccines and his résumé as a doctor have defined his political career
Seven years after Biden predicted a GOP ‘epiphany’ over Trump, Democrats are moving on
Seven years ago, Joe Biden boldly proclaimed that Republicans would have an “epiphany” after Donald Trump lost the election. That didn’t pan out.
Several former Hamas hostages in Gaza share accounts of sexual assault
Guy Gilboa-Dalal is among several former hostages, mostly women, speaking publicly about alleged sexual assaults at the hands of the militants in the Gaza Strip.
Xi warns Trump of possible conflict over Taiwan at grand Beijing summit
BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Thursday of “clashes and even conflicts” with the United States over Taiwan, cautioning President Donald Trump that tensions over the Beijing-claimed island could jeopardize ties between the...
Shakira, Madonna, BTS to headline World Cup Final’s first-ever halftime show
Pop icon Madonna, Latin music superstar Shakira and K-pop sensations BTS will headline the first-ever halftime show at a FIFA World Cup final, organizers — and The Muppets — said early Thursday
While Donald Trump Adventures in China, D.C. Entertains Itself
On the National Mall, where Trump’s new tinge of paint made its way up the basin of the Reflecting Pool, three video-game consoles had been installed with an interactive game called Operation Epic Furious:...
Keir Starmer Won’t Survive This
Local elections in England—to town and city and rural councils across the country—are usually low-turnout affairs, in which the national government of the day takes a bit of a shellacking, apologizes, reassures voters that...
The End of Refugee Resettlement
On a brisk morning this past fall, I took a taxi up the sloped roads of a densely populated neighborhood in the eastern part of Amman, the capital of Jordan. The neighborhood, called Jabal...