The popular El Grito festival in downtown Chicago has been postponed amid concerns over the potential for heightened U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement operations.The two-day event was slated to be held Sept. 13-14 in the city’s Grant Park, but officials and organizers said they decided t...

Politics • 2 min read President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, September 5, 2025.Alex Brandon/AP See all topicsUS President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order creating a “state sponsor of wrongful detention” designation m...

TrumplandHACK JOBReports indicate that E.J. Antoni has been posting sexist and bigoted attacks on Twitter for a decade, from handles that have since been deleted.Adam Downer  Breaking News Reporter Published Sep. 5 2025 3:48PM EDT  Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/...

Anna Wintour defended her new U.S. Vogue successor, 39-year-old Chloe Malle, from “nepo baby” criticism on Friday. Speaking to The New Yorker, Wintour, 75, insisted that Malle, the daughter of Murphy Brown actress Candice Bergen and director and screenwriter Louis Malle, “really had to prov...

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with President of South Korea Lee Jae Myung in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday. Photo by Al Drago/UPI | License PhotoWASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- I watched closely the summit between President Lee Jae Myung of the Republic ...

A Silicon Valley super PAC backed by OpenAI President Greg Brockman and VC heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz is putting $100 million toward supporting AI-friendly politicians. The super PAC will align with White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks’ pro-private industry stance on regulation and w...

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily.Every story about Gavin Newsom must be prefaced by the acknowledgment that the California governor is a bloodless political chameleon whose m...

by Gregory Lyakhov Aug. 9, 2025 8:45 am President Donald Trump holds a press conference with Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on Friday, June 27, 2025.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a cornerstone of American culture for three generations, announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by Congress — marking the end of a nearly six-decade era in which it fueled the production of re...