Policy

Commuters enter and exit the Bethesda Metro station in Bethesda, Maryland, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Orbach)

The next big housing bill: Building more near train and bus stops

Joseph Lawler · October 26, 2026 7:00 am

Elon Musk

Musk says SpaceX closed Starlink ‘loophole’ allowing lethal Ukrainian drone strikes

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, center, poses with members of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets on the sideline during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Kentucky, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026, in College Station, Texas.

Hegseth’s ‘Arsenal of Freedom’ and ‘Send me’ tours resemble a campaign trail

Marco Rubio.

Intelligence chief Jay Clayton warns Rubio of rising Iranian threats

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Paxton sues OpenAI over ‘litany of harms’ as campaign races to win over voters

Congress Lawsuits Federal Government Business Legislation Oversight Attorneys General

The business of suing the federal government

Jeremy Lott June 26, 2026 5:15 am

A protester waves a transgender pride flag outside the Supreme Court during arguments over state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Federally funded gender center ‘under guise of care’ uses dubious diagnoses for hormone drugs

Hudson Crozier June 26, 2026 5:00 am

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani arrives at the NBC studios to participate in a Democratic mayoral primary debate, June 4, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool, File)

Panel approves Mamdani’s rent freeze for nearly 1 million NYC apartments

David Zimmermann June 25, 2026 10:43 pm

A Getty Images illustration of Medicaid forms, face masks, and a stethoscope

California referred few Medicaid fraud cases for investigation: ‘Not even a 50% success rate’

Mia Cathell June 25, 2026 6:13 pm

The Lincoln Memorial is reflected in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

National Park Service to drain Reflecting Pool after July Fourth

David Zimmermann June 25, 2026 4:50 pm

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai reportedly spared from tough Senate hearing on child safety

Victoria Baeza Garcia June 25, 2026 4:35 pm

In this photo taken on June 2, 2018, a health worker checks people's temperatures as they disembark a plane at the airport in Kinshasa, Congo.

White House requests $1.4 billion from Congress to fight Ebola outbreak

Rena Rowe June 25, 2026 4:21 pm

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Tuesday, June 2, 2026.

Dr. Oz demands fraud audits of union dues of home-health workers

Gabrielle M. Etzel June 25, 2026 2:45 pm

Florida Immigration Detention Center

DeSantis permanently closes ICE detention center ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Rena Rowe June 25, 2026 2:43 pm

Mullin DeLauro

Republican chairman intervenes against Markwayne Mullin at heated hearing

Brady Knox June 25, 2026 2:01 pm

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at a news conference

New York’s Medicaid director ‘can’t commit’ to turning over fraud risk reports

Mia Cathell June 25, 2026 1:50 pm

a motorist fills up with gasoline containing ethanol

Conservatives press House to overturn EPA ethanol-blending quotas, saying they raise costs

Maydeen Merino June 25, 2026 1:19 pm