Rachel Leingang

You wake up to dark clouds outside, so you check the weather on your phone: a storm is coming. That weather app uses data from the National Weather Service, a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a small […]

Donald Trump issued a bold campaign promise to his voters: he would eliminate the US Department of Education and give states all power to control education. He didn’t lay out how he could get rid of the cabinet-level agency, but

Using the power of the social media platform he owns and the threat of spending millions against Republicans in primaries, Elon Musk effectively tanked a bipartisan congressional spending bill that would have kept the government running. After their initial failure

Mike Johnston, the mayor of Denver, joined a drumbeat of local leaders in left-leaning cities across the country earlier this month to say he’s willing to protest the incoming Trump administration’s expected mass deportation efforts. He told local outlet Denverite

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump repeatedly disavowed Project 2025, saying he had “nothing to do” with the blueprint for a conservative presidency and didn’t know the people behind it. But as he starts to assemble his cabinet and White

After the 2020 election, a group of 84 people in seven states signed false documents claiming to be electors for Donald Trump. This year, despite the fact that four states have brought criminal charges against the fake electors, 14 of

In 2018, then acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) Thomas Homan told HuffPost that Congress needed to fix immigration laws because: “I’m the first one to say, I can’t arrest 11 million people.” Now, newly tapped as

Elections offices in the US have hardened their security measures this year, anticipating potential violence based on experience since 2020 and during an ongoing rise in threats and harassment focused on election workers. Many offices have now trained their workers

For many observers of the coming presidential election, especially those overseas, Donald Trump and his Maga-infused Republican party represent a foreboding stress test for American democracy. Historians have weighed in with analysis that Trump now heads a movement close to

A year punctuated by two assassination attempts, high levels of threats and harassment, and a number of troubling, violent incidents in the lead-up to election day will culminate on Tuesday with an election deemed existential by all sides. It’s the