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Another Democrat exits crowded campaign for California governor

Another Democrat exits crowded campaign for Califo...

4 days ago 3

U.S. Has Turned Back 27 Ships Since Strait of Hormuz Blockade Started

U.S. Has Turned Back 27 Ships Since Strait of Horm...

4 days ago 8

House Ethics Panel Defends Handling of Sexual Misconduct Allegations

House Ethics Panel Defends Handling of Sexual Misc...

4 days ago 7

Kash Patel Sues The Atlantic for $250 Million Over Article Claiming Excessive Drinking

Kash Patel Sues The Atlantic for $250 Million Over...

4 days ago 7

Justices to Hear Case on Catholic Preschools That Reject Children of Gay Parents

Justices to Hear Case on Catholic Preschools That ...

4 days ago 5

Officials deliberately withheld Mandelson vetting result from me, Starmer says

Officials deliberately withheld Mandelson vetting ...

4 days ago 4

The 9/11 terrorist attacks were a catalyst for a closer relationship between the government and tech firms

The 9/11 terrorist attacks were a catalyst for a c...

4 days ago 4

Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans

Phones to be banned in schools by law in England u...

4 days ago 5

The Justice Department’s antitrust division is investigating whether large meatpackers that supply U.S. consumers engaged in criminal anticompetitive conduct, after President Trump called for a probe

The Justice Department’s antitrust division is inv...

4 days ago 3

Democratic Senators Fault Hegseth’s Leadership on Iran

Democratic Senators Fault Hegseth’s Leadership on ...

4 days ago 3

Key points from Starmer's Mandelson statement

Key points from Starmer's Mandelson statement

4 days ago 3

Home Office blocks anti-Islam influencer from entering UK

Home Office blocks anti-Islam influencer from ente...

4 days ago 3

Watch: Starmer faces MPs as Mandelson row drags on

Watch: Starmer faces MPs as Mandelson row drags on...

4 days ago 4

'Huge relief' as students given loans 'in error' get repayment reprieve

'Huge relief' as students given loans 'in error' g...

4 days ago 3

With no end in sight to their deployment, National Guard troops roam Washington

With no end in sight to their deployment, National...

5 days ago 3

There will be a lot of noise in the next few days as President Trump and the Iranians are posturing to try to create leverage ahead of any negotiations. Read more in today’s WSJ politics newsletter:

There will be a lot of noise in the next few days ...

5 days ago 3

Chris Mason: PM facing awkward hours ahead as Mandelson questions remain

Chris Mason: PM facing awkward hours ahead as Mand...

5 days ago 3

Five questions awaiting Starmer as he faces Commons over Mandelson scandal

Five questions awaiting Starmer as he faces Common...

5 days ago 8

Reform pledges to review all asylum claims since 2021 if it wins power

Reform pledges to review all asylum claims since 2...

5 days ago 8

U.S. Military Strikes a Boat in the Caribbean, Killing 3

U.S. Military Strikes a Boat in the Caribbean, Kil...

5 days ago 7

A dispute between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is occurring in the midst of unprecedented military commitments around the world

A dispute between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a...

5 days ago 7

Democrats Eye a Broader Battlefield to Capture Congress in November

Democrats Eye a Broader Battlefield to Capture Con...

5 days ago 3

A Senate committee is weighing Trump’s choice for the next Federal Reserve chair this week, but there’s someone blocking his confirmation: North Carolina’s Sen. Thom Tillis.

A Senate committee is weighing Trump’s choice for ...

5 days ago 11

Trump is grappling with his own fears about the war, the record stock market rests on some big one-offs, and America is obsessed with mahjong. Read more in today’s What’s News newsletter:

Trump is grappling with his own fears about the wa...

5 days ago 8

GOP plans big spending to keep Ohio Senate seat; bribery scandal adds challenge

GOP plans big spending to keep Ohio Senate seat; b...

5 days ago 9

Ex-Scottish Labour leader Dugdale appointed as Stonewall chairwoman

Ex-Scottish Labour leader Dugdale appointed as Sto...

6 days ago 5

Muslim Southerners Face a Fresh Wave of Hateful Political Rhetoric

Muslim Southerners Face a Fresh Wave of Hateful Po...

6 days ago 3

Book publisher and RFK Jr. ally Tony Lyons seems to be everywhere in the MAHA movement

Book publisher and RFK Jr. ally Tony Lyons seems t...

6 days ago 3

Reform's Richard Tice responds to reported failure to pay £100,000 tax

Reform's Richard Tice responds to reported failure...

6 days ago 3

Foreign secretary concerned ministers not told of Mandelson vetting fears sooner

Foreign secretary concerned ministers not told of ...

6 days ago 11

Billionaire's spending binge dwarfs rival campaigns in California governor's race

Billionaire's spending binge dwarfs rival campaign...

6 days ago 12

Potential 2028 Democrats Audition in Michigan,With a Focus on Trump

Potential 2028 Democrats Audition in Michigan,With...

6 days ago 11

Maine’s new levy shows that wealth taxes aren’t just for states chock-full of tech founders and hedge-fund billionaires

Maine’s new levy shows that wealth taxes aren’t ju...

6 days ago 9

Behind Trump’s public bravado on the war in Iran is a president grappling with his own fears.

Behind Trump’s public bravado on the war in Iran i...

6 days ago 5

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Cons...

6 days ago 6

Virginians face a ballot measure asking them whether to approve redrawing their state’s congressional districts, which would give a big lift to Democrats’ goal of taking back the U.S. House

Virginians face a ballot measure asking them wheth...

6 days ago 7

Influential soft-left MP to 'unite Labour' in new intervention

Influential soft-left MP to 'unite Labour' in new ...

6 days ago 5

Obama meets Mamdani in New York City before reading to preschoolers

Obama meets Mamdani in New York City before readin...

6 days ago 6

Indiana primary will test Trump's control over Republican Party

Indiana primary will test Trump's control over Rep...

6 days ago 5

Senior official ousted over Mandelson security row to face MPs

Senior official ousted over Mandelson security row...

6 days ago 10

The Primary That Could End a State G.O.P.’s Independent Streak

The Primary That Could End a State G.O.P.’s Indepe...

6 days ago 10

President Trump signed an executive order Saturday that seeks to fast-track research into certain psychedelic drugs used to treat PTSD and other disorders

President Trump signed an executive order Saturday...

6 days ago 11

Starmer accused of 'skulking' and shunning Sarwar in Scotland

Starmer accused of 'skulking' and shunning Sarwar ...

6 days ago 9

‘Turning Point Was Charlie Kirk’: Why This Student Group Moved On

‘Turning Point Was Charlie Kirk’: Why This Student...

6 days ago 9

Appeals Court Again Allows Ballroom Construction to Go On, for Now

Appeals Court Again Allows Ballroom Construction t...

6 days ago 8

The Doctor Will Seek Your Vote Now

The Doctor Will Seek Your Vote Now

6 days ago 8

Inside the Supreme Court’s Risky New Way of Doing Business

Inside the Supreme Court’s Risky New Way of Doing ...

6 days ago 3

For Iran, Flexing Control Over Waterway Is New Deterrent

For Iran, Flexing Control Over Waterway Is New Det...

6 days ago 3

Why Starmer still can't move on from the Mandelson mess

Why Starmer still can't move on from the Mandelson...

1 week ago 4

Senior civil servants knew weeks ago that Mandelson had failed security vetting

Senior civil servants knew weeks ago that Mandelso...

1 week ago 4