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Abdul el Sayed’s chronic, brazen lying

Guy Benson · October 23, 2026 5:45 am

Abdul el Sayed.

Is it too late to move the midterm needle in Michigan?

Bucks County demonstrators.

The conservative who said yes to Bucks County, USA

El Sayed and Rogers.

What’s ahead if the polls are right — or wrong

Aleppo-Workers giving visitors a tour 900 feet down the Bailey coal mine that straddles Washington and Greene counties in Pennsylvania. (Salena Zito)

In Pennsylvania coal country, follow the climate money

Pennsylvania Rep. Greg Rothman, R-Cumberland County, attends a hearing of the Pennsylvania State Senate Majority Policy Committee.

Pennsylvania GOP all in on No

Salena Zito October 16, 2025 7:05 pm

President Donald Trump announced Monday his plan to activate hundreds of National Guard troops and federalize the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department to address violent crime in the nation's capital.

DC attackers go free, showing limits of Trump crime crackdown

Byron York October 16, 2025 12:32 pm

President Donald Trump and Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi hold signed documents during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

Trump defies conventional wisdom … so far

Michael Barone October 15, 2025 2:22 pm

A group of migrants walk to a van as hundreds of migrants gather along the U.S.-Mexico border in Lukeville, Arizona.

The absurdity of California Democrats voting to pay rent for illegal immigrants afraid of ICE ‘raids’

Christopher Tremoglie October 15, 2025 11:37 am

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaking at rally.

Zohran, Big Tish, and the New Resistance

Byron York October 14, 2025 4:55 pm

Jay Jones, Virginia's Democratic attorney general candidate, speaks to an audience holding signs for Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger.

The unconscionable loss of conscience for Virginia Democrats

Salena Zito October 14, 2025 3:59 pm

The American flag flies atop the Capitol Building.

Democrats want the GOP to destroy norms

David Harsanyi October 14, 2025 2:00 pm

Hamas gunmen on pickup trucks escort buses carrying freed Palestinian prisoners.

What the Middle East peace has brought, and what it hasn’t

Hugo Gurdon October 14, 2025 1:42 pm

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., center, speaks with reporters at the Capitol subway, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Pennsylvania Democrats praise Trump for release of Israeli hostages

Salena Zito October 13, 2025 4:12 pm

President Donald Trump poses for a photo with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before he boards Air Force One at Ben Gurion International Airport, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, near Tel Aviv, as Israel's President Isaac Herzog, left, watches.

Trump triumph is bad news for his adversaries

Byron York October 13, 2025 10:37 am

Trump holds up a newspaper article featuring Letitia James.

Letitia James and an eye for an eye

Byron York October 11, 2025 11:34 pm

CBS sign

Bari Weiss vs. the intolerant Left

David Harsanyi October 10, 2025 2:00 pm