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Lying in politics has changed. Politicians used to lie in hopes of getting away with it. Now they don't care. If you throw enough mud on the windshield, some of it will stick. Case in point: Sen. Dick Durbin's use on the Senate floor of an obviously ...

The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress." Standing five feet, five inches tall, with a thick mustache and a warm smile, Henry Waxman says that he came to Congress to ...

Congress is debating major funding bills that would avoid another of those phony government "shutdowns" now scheduled for January 30. One sticking point is that Democrats want to either defund ICE, or greatly reduce its budget even though it is ...

Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries may call it common-sense solutions, but I would call their list of 40 demands for amnesty-like attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nothing less than abolishing ICE altogether, and ...

Something changes when you watch hordes of your political opponents gleefully celebrate the assassination of a man because he believed what you believe. On Wednesday, Charlie Kirk visited Utah Valley University. He was talking to a crowd of thousands ...

There was no Labor Day holiday for Chicago criminals, who murdered nine people and wounded another 51; most (if not all) were black or brown people with names and stories we will never know. Meanwhile, crime is down sharply in Washington, D.C., where ...

The shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah looked like the opposite of the Washington Post motto. It's "Democracy Dies in Sunlight." Thousands of people gathered joyfully to hear freedom of speech and saw it end with a ...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) - President Donald Trump described his face-to-face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday as a roaring success, saying he would cut tariffs on China, while Beijing had agreed to allow the export of rare earth elements ...

Catholics have been some of Trump's most important voters. But right now, 55% of Catholics give Trump a D or F grade on handling inflation. Affordability is the central issue for most Americans, especially swing voters. Patriotic middle-class ...

New York Times reporter James Stewart wrote a big article based on a series of interviews with CBS owner Shari Redstone, and buried deep in the piece was something wild that should have been obvious: CBS settled Donald Trump's lawsuit to keep the ...