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WASHINGTON — Despite warnings from the architect of the Capitol about a dire need to renovate the Rayburn House Office Building, lawmakers say they still aren’t fully sold on the project, which could last until 2045 ...Read more

People and businesses nationwide are reckoning with rapidly rising electricity costs. Last year, 80 million people struggled to afford their utility bills. At the same time, electricity demand is newly surging ...Read more

When the Obama Presidential Center opens on June 19, it will arrive with the kind of civic gravity Chicago understands well. A dedication ceremony. A weekend of programming. A new landmark rising from Jackson Park after ...Read more

At this time of year, family calendars implode under the weight of school performances, sports tournaments, award ceremonies, teacher gifts, graduation traditions, summer camp forms and holiday travel plans. How to deal ...Read more

The Trump administration’s embrace of coal power is a timely and essential response to a three-headed energy emergency. The United States is facing an electricity supply crisis shaped by rapidly eroding grid reliability,...Read more

The turmoil engulfing CBS News and “60 Minutes” has left me wondering what my grandfather Andy Rooney would make of it all.

Rooney died in 2011 after more than three decades as a fixture of the newsmagazine, and with ...Read more

The fact that a pair of Republican senators are being heralded for doing their jobs reveals just how much Congress has atrophied, especially during President Donald Trump’s second term.

Freed from the president’s ...Read more

While the president of the United States has the power under Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution to appoint justices of the Supreme Court and other federal judges, all of whom have lifetime tenure, the ...Read more

For all the consternation surrounding the choice of Bill Pulte to oversee U.S. intelligence agencies, it’s hardly the first time the White House has elevated a partisan with few evident qualifications to fill a top ...Read more

The private sector is cutting parental leave benefits. The U.S. fertility rate is at sub-replacement levels. Republicans in Congress seem rudderless in the face of affordability concerns. This is exactly the right time for...Read more

MIAMI — The 10-week sprint to become the Democratic nominee to succeed South Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson is officially underway after two leading candidates — both pastors’ sons — chose the preacher’s ...Read more

Saturdays in Greenwich Village require contending with the lines. Starting at 9 a.m., you see blocks-long queues of people waiting for all sorts of things: bagels, pastries, pizza, soggy sandwiches, premium frozen yogurt ...Read more

New York's Comrade Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is ready to seize the means of production, starting with the landlords. As always with communism, it’ll mean quality goes down and shortages will appear because the government ...Read more

Spencer Pratt had a few things going for him when he launched an insurgent campaign to become Los Angeles' next mayor.

He had a heart-tugging origin story that saw him transform from a has-been television star into one of...Read more

I woke up early to catch the latest news on the election results, only to find that the first text message I saw was not a news alert from Maine, but a warning from Apple Customer Support. Someone in Moscow, Russia, was ...Read more

Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried is the latest in a chorus of voices criticizing U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the unfolding backlash to her decision to seek reelection in a Black plurality district ...Read more

The Wall Street Journal asked a judge to dismiss President Donald Trump’s revised $10 billion defamation lawsuit over an article on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that the new complaint isn’t an improvement on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump got his mojo back with Republican primary voters Tuesday following a setback in Iowa last week when his preferred candidate lost the GOP contest for governor.

Trump-backed House ...Read more

Congressional lawmakers grilled Chicago Public Schools CEO Macquline King in an hourslong hearing Wednesday, pressing her and two other superintendents on policies supporting transgender students and other diversity, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican James Gallagher took the oath of office Wednesday, filling the seat of the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa in California’s 1st District and giving House leaders some breathing room in what has been a ...Read more