The death of David Koch on Friday — and the broader retreat he and his brother made from politics since the 2016 election — brings an end (if not the end) to one of the most influential (and controversial) chapters in modern American politics. Like them or hate them — and almost no one feels…… MORE
When President Donald Trump was asked Wednesday what victims of mass shootings are telling him about gun laws, he did not answer directly. Instead, he boasted of “the love for me” among the people he visited in hospitals in El Paso and Dayton after the August massacres in those cities. “Not only did they meet…… MORE
The US Navy sailed a warship through the Taiwan Strait Friday, a move that comes amid heightened tensions with Beijing over trade. “USS Green Bay (LPD 20) conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit Aug. 23 (local time) in accordance with international law,” Cdr. Reann Mommsen, a spokesperson for the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet, said in…… MORE
The Democratic primary dropouts are coming a mile a minute now. Earlier this week, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee decided to depart the 2020 presidential race. Now, Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton is bowing out. Both, like most of the primary field, were polling well below 5%. Both, like a majority of the field, were unlikely to…… MORE
Trump immigration official Ken Cuccinelli is defending the Trump administration’s proposed changes to the Flores settlement agreement that would allow undocumented families to be detained together indefinitely, saying the new proposal is meant to deter migrants from wanting to cross the US-Mexico border. “This is a deterrent, because they know that instead of rushing the…… MORE
Rep. Seth Moulton will end his presidential bid on Friday during a speech at the Democratic National Committee summer meeting in San Francisco, according to prepared remarks of the speech the Massachusetts Democrat plans to deliver. The decision closes out a campaign in which the candidate failed to get traction or make this year’s Democratic…… MORE
Conservative billionaire David Koch, who became a household name through the policy and political empire he created with his older brother, Charles, has died. He was 79. Charles Koch, the CEO of the family’s industrial conglomerate Koch Industries, announced the death Friday. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my…… MORE
The tide is starting to turn on one of President Donald Trump’s favorite industries: Steel. In Michigan, US Steel is temporarily laying off about 200 workers at a plant just outside Detroit. In western Pennsylvania, 78 people are about to lose their jobs when the Akers National Roll Company closes by the end of September…… MORE
The sheer gauziness of Taylor Swift’s celebrity is such that when people talk about her, they tend to reveal less about her and more about us, as a society. Swift has become a political and cultural cipher of sorts — at once nothing and everything. Between her fans and her detractors (there’s rarely an in-between),…… MORE
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Friday released a plan to combat addiction and provide mental health services, outlining a proposal that aims to reduce the stigma around mental health, penalizes insurance companies that do not offer mental health coverage and offers $10 billion in annual grants for communities to address the issues. The…… MORE
