NYC mayor abandons reelection campaign
U.S. Politics
September 29, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams ended his struggling reelection campaign Sunday, an acknowledgment that he was no longer a credible contender after a year of scandal and political turmo...
U.S. Politics
September 25, 2025
By JOSHUA GOODMAN AND RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work. The General Ser...
A burglary’s revelations
U.S. Politics
Trump’s use of FBI to target ‘enemies’ echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover
‘Almost beyond belief’
September 24, 2025
The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By BETTY MEDSGER Professor Emeritus of Journalism San Francisco State University At the ...
U.S. Politics
September 22, 2025
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli sparred over the economy, President Donald Trump’s leadership and political division as they faced off Sunday night f...
U.S. Politics
By By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press 
September 17, 2025
A U.S. judge said that she was powerless to stop the return of four men in Ghana’s custody to countries where U.S. immigration judges determined they faced torture or persecution, declining to interve...
The Orwellian echoes in Trump’s push for ‘Americanism’ at the Smithsonian
U.S. Politics
By By LAURA BEERS Professor of History, American University 
August 21, 2025
The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. When people use the term “Orwellian,” it’s not a good sign. It usually characterizes an ...
U.S. Politics
August 19, 2025
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Democrats are making a partisan push to draw new congressional districts and reshape the state’s U.S. House representation in their favor, but to pull it off, lawm...
How closely do congressional delegations reflect how people vote? Not very
U.S. Politics
By By ROBERT YOON Associated Press 
August 11, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Constitution makes it clear: “The People” get to pick those who’ll represent their interests in the U.S. House of Representatives. But just how closely do those choices reflect t...