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Updated Jul 21, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump admin releases MLK's files despite family objection

Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at the March Against Fear rally on the steps of the Neshoba County Courthouse in Philadelphia, June 1966. The march went to Philadelphia to protest the unsolved murders of three civil rights workers in 1964.

"I hate it": Redistricting arms race gives lawmakers heartburn

Illustration of brushes painting red and blue lines on a map of the US.

Thune stuck between Trump's demands, members' recess plans

John Thune
Jul 21, 2025 - World

White House confirms Trump objected to Israeli strikes in Syria

smoke in sky

White House pulls WSJ from Trump's Scotland press pool over Epstein reporting

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during a press briefing at the White House on July 17. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Trump blasts judge in Harvard funding case before she issues ruling

The exterior of John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse in Boston's Seaport neighborhood.

Grocery bills are rising as the planet cooks

Hunter Biden suggests Ambien contributed to father's infamous debate

Hunter Biden at the White House

Mount Rainier's quake swarm breaks seismic records

Illustration of a seismograph reading in the shape of an exclamation point.
Jul 21, 2025 - Economy

Why the Fed is running big losses

Updated Jul 21, 2025 - Business

Wall Street likes the economy more than voters do

An illustration of President Donald Trump and the Wall Street bull statue facing each other with a glowing line resembling a stock chart connecting their eyes, against a green grid background.
Jul 21, 2025 - Technology

Altman plans D.C. push to "democratize" AI economic benefits

CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman arrives at the Sun Valley lodge for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 8, 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Every year, some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful figures from the media, finance, technology, and political spheres converge at the Sun Valley Res

How Trump's game-planning for the 2026 midterms

Photo illustration of President Trump's head blurring into the Capitol dome

Wary Democratic establishment keeping New York's Mamdani at arm's length

A smiling Zohran Mamdani in a black suit and white shirt walking near glass doors, holding a phone and water bottle, with reflection of another person in the background.
Jul 21, 2025 - Business

What's at stake when public media funds are cut

Illustration of a broken TV with a shattered screen sitting in dry grass with a herd of elephants stampeding away in the background.

Chatbots' new job: minding tots

Illustration of a pacifier with a ring shaped like a speech bubble
Jul 21, 2025 - Health

Hospitals scoop up physician practices, driving prices up

Illustration of a pattern of caduceus's gradually becoming dollar signs
Updated Jul 20, 2025 - Energy & Climate

U.S. Northeast, Midwest face severe storms, flood threats

A screenshot of an NWS map of the US showing weather hazards, saying in part: "Severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall are likely across parts of the Northeast, portions of the northern and central Plains, and the Ohio Valley."

Number missing in Texas floods drops from 97 to 3, Kerr County officials say

A search group finds a victim from the Texas flood by the Guadalupe River on July 18, 2025 in Center Point, Texas.
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