Category: Politics

A Georgia congressman running for one of the country’s most competitive U.S. Senate seats has vowed in social media posts and interviews to make America’s roads safer — by taking commercial driver’s licenses away from noncitizens. “If you can’t read English road signs,” Mike Collins, a Republican, posted on Facebook in April, “you don’t belong […]

NPR’s A Martinez asks New York Times correspondent Reid Epstein what Democrats in Virginia are planning now, after their redrawn election map was struck down by the state’s Supreme Court.

More than a decade ago, a federal court found that the New York City Police Department had been unconstitutionally stopping and frisking Black and Hispanic residents. The ruling laid out required fixes, including something quite basic: The NYPD would review officers’ stops to make sure they were legal. But for most of the past three […]

Congress is back after a week-long break and is poised to move ahead with Republicans’ plan to fund immigration enforcement for the next three years.

President Trump said on social media that Iran’s response to a U.S. ceasefire proposal was “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President Trump on Sunday rejected Iran’s response to the latest U.S. proposal to end the war. Trump, in a post on social media, wrote he didn’t like Iran’s […]

The White House waits for Iran’s response to the latest deal to end the war, as President Trump prepares for a meeting in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jingping later this week.

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe looks ahead to President Trump’s visit this week to China with Patricia Kim of The Brookings Institution.

This is a locator map for the Gulf Cooperation Council member states: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates. AP hide caption toggle caption AP DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A cargo ship caught fire Sunday after being hit by an unknown projectile off Qatar’s coast, the British military said, in the […]

Can’t see the video above? Watch it here. TOLEDO, Ohio — “We were told that it was going to be different.” That’s what Alan Isbell of Toledo, Ohio, said when discussing what he sees as the rising cost of living. Isbell was on his way in to cast his vote in Ohio’s primary elections on March […]

Pussy Riot and FEMEN activists protest Russia’s presence after its absence following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine in front of the Russian pavilion at the 2026 Art Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, on May 6, 2026. Luca Bruno/AP hide caption toggle caption Luca Bruno/AP The 61st Venice Biennale opened Saturday in a chaotic atmosphere marked […]