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Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have been rampaging through the federal government. But before he was letting his DOGE team accidentally fire nuclear safety workers and declaring that he loved Donald Trump “as much as a straight […]

President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he signs an executive order to create a US sovereign wealth fund, in the Oval Office of the White House on February 3, 2025, in Washington, DC.  President Donald Trump’s first weeks

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After Donald Trump’s second electoral win, what comes next for the Democratic Party? Vox is launching a pop-up newsletter, called The Rebuild, aimed at answering that question. Every Friday between now and the inauguration, Vox senior correspondent Eric Levitz will

Donald J. Trump is headed to the White House again. He’ll have the help of a Republican Senate, almost certainly a Republican House, and a conservative Supreme Court that includes three justices he appointed the first time around. The former

Tuesday, November 5 is Election Day — and it will mark the end of a historically short, incredibly intense presidential campaign cycle between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. The candidates appear to be locked in a

But we know you may not want to spend your day anxiously waiting for results by reading more political news. So we’ve pulled together some favorite recent (and not-so-recent) articles that have nothing to do with the election to help

This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Helene and Milton, the two massive hurricanes that just swept into the country — killing hundreds of people, and leaving both devastation

In the seven weeks ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the Today, Explained podcast has been examining the major themes and policies impacting voters this year. We’ve been telling the story of the Donald Trump-Kamala Harris presidential match-up through each

The Democratic Party is extraordinarily unified behind Vice President Kamala Harris — a cohesion born of a defeat-Donald-Trump-at-all-costs strategy in an election with deep consequences for the future of American democracy. But the truce is a fragile one that is