Soon after, it was common to see reports quoting CDC insiders referring to the agency in the past tense. The New York Times published a report with a headline and subhead that immediately generated ...

Donald Trump’s discomfort with facts has become the stuff of legend. But given recent events, it’s worth dwelling on a specific part of the president’s rejection of reality — specifically, the war on ...

Up until two weeks ago, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics was a relatively obscure federal office, which most Americans had probably never heard of. Indeed, for the last 140 years, the ...

The U.S. generals and admirals who were summoned to listen to bizarre remarks from Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had nothing to say publicly in the aftermath of the event. That was ...

When the U.S. Space Command was formally created six years ago, it was temporarily based in Colorado and military leaders recommended that it stay there. There was no great mystery as to why: Colorado ...

Gov. JB Pritzker began the week with a rather extraordinary speech in Chicago, responding to Donald Trump’s apparent plans to deploy National Guard troops to public streets in the Midwest’s largest ...

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. * It’s Election Day in the late Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly’s Virginia district, where Democrat James Walkinshaw is ...

Donald Trump was in Pennsylvania this week, speaking at an energy and innovation summit, when his comments veered off on an odd tangent. “I have to brag just for a second,” the president said, before ...

* At the White House’s direction, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe, signed into law a newly gerrymandered congressional district intended to boost his fellow Republicans. If implemented, the map will ensure ...

Donald Trump’s second term has clearly been challenging for U.S. intelligence agencies. It was just a few months ago, for example, when the leaders of the National Intelligence Council were fired ...

After Donald Trump’s re-election defeat in 2020, a variety of far-right media outlets eagerly embraced the Republican’s baseless conspiracy theories about the outcome, fueling widespread confusion ...

While there was quite a bit of talk in Republican circles earlier this year about impeaching judges, the chatter largely disappeared in recent months. Is Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio poised to ...