Politics

The Reflecting Pool: A Century of Engineering, Marble, Concrete and American History

Few places in Washington, D.C., are as instantly recognizable as the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Stretching between the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, the long sheet of water has...

DC Road Closures Expected as Freedom 250 Grand Prix Brings IndyCar Racing to the National Mall

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington is preparing for one of the most unusual sporting events in the city's history...

The Remarkable History of State-Owned Companies

How Japan Post, Deutsche Post, Saudi Aramco, Singtel and other government-backed enterprises became publicly traded giants For much of...

Why Rhode Island may oust a sitting governor over a bridge

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee has a month to turn around primary challenger Helena Foulkes’ 20-point lead or...

Dasha Burns presses Mike Johnson on the economy, Iran and Trump's agenda

Dasha Burns presses Mike Johnson on the economy, Iran and Trump's agenda lead image Published Date : 2026-08-06 04:00:00 Source...

Troy Jackson jumps out to big lead in race to replace Graham Platner in Maine

WISCASSET, Maine — As Maine Democrats began the rushed and convoluted process to name a successor to scandal-plagued former nominee Graham Platner, it became...

Dems have a big cash advantage in key Senate races

Democrats continue to rake in cash across some of the nation’s most pivotal Senate races, outpacing their Republican counterparts several times over. In Georgia,...

Texas Hispanics swung hard to Trump. A new poll shows they’re furious at his deportations.

Benny Melendez voted for President Donald Trump in 2024. But since Trump returned to the White House, it has been increasingly difficult for Melendez...

'They got their rear end kicked,' DeSantis says of US team

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (former captain of the Yale University baseball team) said he’s not “a soccer fan.” But he did take some time...

The California Democrat who says he ‘won’t cheer FIFA’s capitulation to power’

Sam Liccardo said he “groaned excessively” when the U.S. national team’s Folarin Balogun was given a red card. Yet the Silicon Valley representative objected...

The populist trick that turned a soccer shirt into a campaign uniform

MAGA-friendly Abelardo de la Espriella's decision to make Colombia's national soccer jersey a defining feature of his victorious right-wing presidential campaign has sparked a...