Video: Living Under Threat of Political Violence
Our reporter Nick Corasaniti interviewed elected officials from across the political spectrum on what it’s like to live and work with threats of political violence.
Opinion: Kansas may surprise the nation and elect a Democrat to the US Senate. MAGA politics reshaped state.
Opinion from H. Edward Flentje: In 1932, Kansas voters elected Democrat George McGill to the U.S Senate. In the 32 senate elections since then, voters have consistently elected Republicans to represent them.This historic streak makes Democrat Adam Hamilton’s bid to prevail in his challenge to the reelection of U.S. Senator Roger Marshall an uphill climb. However, Marshall’s embrace of MAGA politics has changed the dynamics of the race and given Hamilton a credible shot at a dramatic upset.
US DOJ launches investigation into news networks for possible antitrust violations in TV pool
The investigation concerns the television pool, a longstanding arrangement under which ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC share responsibility for filming presidential events and distributing footage.
Indian-Americans back candidates beyond diaspora as they seek greater US political representation
Indian-Americans are strategically supporting candidates sympathetic to their community ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. Several Indian-American candidates are seeking re-election, while new contenders also emerge in battleground states. Community leaders emphasize the need for unity to enhance their political influence. They believe increased representation is vital for impacting public decisions at various government levels. The situation highlights ongoing challenges within the community regarding electoral support distribution.
‘We need less point scoring’: What party conference season taught us about UK climate action
Tories plan to scrap low-carbon housebuilding, Greens back new nuclear reactors, and Labour put oil-drilling decisions on hold
Justice Department investigating major TV networks over suspending pool coverage of Trump
The investigation into the five networks — CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News — is underway, and civil investigative demands were sent out Friday, a Justice Department spokesperson said.
A Senator Facing Re-Election Settles a Bakery Bill, 6 Years Later
Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in a difficult race, paid an old campaign debt for cookies, muffins and brownies after a baker’s story went viral online.
The Seamless Garment Pope: Two Overlooked Videos From Chiclayo and New Lenox Explain Leo XIV
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When the cardinals elected Robert Prevost on May 8, 2025, the world met a pope it could barely read.
He had spent more than two decades as a missionary in Peru, then twelve years running the Augustinian order from Rome. He wrote no books and built no academic career beyond seminary teaching in Trujillo. The heaviest item in his written record was a canon law dissertation from the late 1980s.
The people most eager to find his opinions came up nearly empty. Before the conclave, a well-funded conservative operation called the College of Cardinals Report assembled dossiers on the leading candidates, and its researchers found almost nothing in Prevost’s paper trail. Its profile of him, still online today, says nothing about where he stood on the death penalty, immigration or the life issues.
They were looking in the wrong place. Two videos, both posted to YouTube before anyone imagined an American pope, hold the clearest statement we have of how Leo XIV thinks about the moral life. I have now gone through every minute of both, and they belong together.
Read side by side, they reveal a seamless garment pope.
‘Not Pleasant’ but ‘Necessary’: Support at Trump Rally for Public Execution
A sample of people at the president’s midterm stump speech in Tennessee defended the Pentagon’s announcement that it would livestream the execution of a mass shooter.
Some Republicans Reject Trump’s Move to Import Diesel Fuel From Russia
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