5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (288+ words) President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow states to resume using a federal citizenship database to identify potential noncitizens on voter rolls ahead of the November midterm elections. The Justice Department is seeking to overturn…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (344+ words) Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch III announced Tuesday that he will retire by the end of the year, ending his tenure as the Trump administration pushes for major changes at the taxpayer-supported museum complex. Bunch, who has led the Smithsonian…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (258+ words) Americans’ dissatisfaction with the quality of K-12 education in the U.S. has dropped to 32 percent, a new low in Gallup’s 27-year trend and down 11 percentage points over the past two years. According to Gallup News, the trend appears to be…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (283+ words) A federal judge on Friday extended an order blocking the Trump administration from implementing new mail-voting requirements, creating another legal hurdle for the president’s election-integrity agenda as states begin sending ballots for the November midterms. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (402+ words) The Trump administration has threatened to take away the support of federal agencies from the Smithsonian Institution in an ongoing dispute of how the world’s largest museum complex presents U.S. history. Fox News reports that the administration says it has…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (356+ words) House leaders announced Thursday that lawmakers are not expected to vote during the final two weeks of September, sending members back to their districts ahead of the midterm elections with several major legislative issues unresolved. The House had originally been…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (286+ words) Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 11:00 AM THE PRESIDENT receives his Intelligence Briefing 12:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting 3:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting 5:00 PM THE…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (346+ words) An American journalist who admitted helping Chinese intelligence recruit sources and obtain sensitive U.S. government information was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison. Thomas Pauken II pleaded guilty in June to acting as an unregistered agent of China from…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (791+ words) America is surging ahead while Canada stagnates, and that growing asymmetry—not trade alone—is driving the acrimony between two longtime allies. At first glance, the current American-Canadian trade “war” is absurd. We are neighbors with a long history of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (973+ words) The Supreme Court settled a fight Monday that never should have needed settling: whether a preservationist with a bad case of aesthetic heartburn gets to […] Source The Supreme Court settled a fight Monday that never should have needed settling: whether…...