Amanda Feindt sat in the fourth row during the Senate confirmation hearing of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. A U.S. Army major and former whistleblower who had submitted a letter supporting his nomination, Feindt listened as Hegseth spoke about troop readiness, military lethality, and protecting...

“I helped set in motion a revolution that aims to rebuild something like a true liberal democracy in America,” Barry C. Lynn wrote two years ago in Harper’s. The claim is notable less for being impossibly grandiose than for being more or less correct.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Scott Feinberg at Meta House on May 14, 2026. Though she did not grow up with parents in the entertainment business — her father was a businessman in commodities, while her mother worked as a teacher — Julia Louis-Dreyfus wanted to be a performer from “the earliest ...

A flyer featuring a pink background was the top Instagram post on California state superintendent candidate Sonja Shaw’s page on Saturday morning. It read, in blue, “a male athlete” held the top spot for an upcoming high school girls’ track and field meet, listing the event start times fo...

JUNEAU — An Alaska Senate panel removed sweeping restrictions on the use of social media by minors from a bill that would criminalize using artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse material, along with imposing other restrictions on AI usage that harmfully impersonates real people...

Last August, Trump promised an executive order written “by the best lawyers in the country” to end all mail-in ballots. Last month, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared poised to curtail at-home voting by rejecting a Mississippi law that allows ballots postmarked by Election D...

Kyle Werner   Des Moines Register Show Caption Speaking to hundreds of Iowa educators, gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand invoked Iowa’s legacy as a national leader in education while laying out a vision for the state’s future should he be elected governor. Running as a Democrat, Sand was the...

A sweeping school bus lockout in New York City has been averted, for now.The remaining bus operators announced Thursday night they were signing a series of emergency extensions, which was later confirmed by city education officials.Early last week, the companies threatened to discontinue bus ser...

A warm and Western howdy to you, saddlepals. We’ve a most interesting trek ahead, what with man-eating grizzly bears, the naming of a district and a little kick-off party for some newfangled neighborhood called, “Valencia.” All right now. Everybody up in the saddle, sit tall and give the ...