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The Anti-Defamation League has identified 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents in its 2017 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents. That's up from 1,267 in 2016, marking the highest single-year increase since the organization released its first audit in 1979. The annual audit tracks incidents of vandalism...

A new study shows that viewers who get their news from Fox News are the most misinformed in the country. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers...

WASHINGTON — Senior Republican Party leaders began urging their most imperiled incumbents on Wednesday to speak out about the wrongdoing surrounding President Trump, with Representative Tom Cole, a former House Republican campaign chairman, warning, “Where there’s smoke, and there’s a lot of...

A British former spy has been exonerated by a US court for producing a dossier which made claims about the Trump campaign and its links to Russia. Christopher Steele and his intelligence firm, Orbis, were sued by three Russian oligarchs - Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan – for libel...

Facts are piling up, and it’s getting harder to deny what’s staring us in the face. At the NATO summit in Brussels, Trump attacked a close European ally—Germany—and generally questioned the value of the alliance. Next, he visited the United Kingdom and trashed Prime Minister Theresa May. Then...

This week, Barack Obama delivered a long and thoughtful defense of liberalism, pluralism, and democracy against strongman populism. The themes, which in nearly all respects tracked the ideas he promoted throughout his presidency, came in pointed contrast to the contemporaneous spectacle of his...

Senate Rebuffs Russia Interviews of Americans in Rebuke to Trump The Republican-led Senate effectively rebuked President Donald Trump for considering Russia’s request to question U.S. officials, giving voice to growing unease over the president’s shifting policies toward his country’s biggest...

After U.S. President Donald Trump’s Helsinki debacle, it is time to take stock of what the substantive damage caused by his conduct might entail. This is not to gloss over the anger in response to his betrayal of the United States in front of one of its most dedicated adversaries. I share that...

The FBI has obtained wiretapped conversations of a Kremlin-linked banker who later met with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 presidential election. Spanish national police provided the FBI with tapes of Russian oligarch Alexander Torshin's phone calls with a convicted Russian money launderer...

We told you yesterday why elected Republicans go so silent so quickly when they disagree so strongly with President Trump: They fear it's political suicide to speak up. Now we have an exclusive, new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll that shows why those fears are real: Data: SurveyMonkey online poll...

Conservative columnist George Will on Tuesday called President Trump a "sad, embarrassing wreck of a man" in criticizing his performance at this week's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Will said Republicans should be embarrassed by Trump's remarks at the summit Helsinki, Finland...

Now the import/export bank puts another squeeze on American manufacturing And who ran on bringing jobs back to the U.S.?

Here's what Americans think: Obama is the clear favorite. A little surprising that Trump did as well as he did.

CHICAGO — Illinois Republicans botched four opportunities to stop an avowed Nazi from representing their party in a Chicago-area congressional district. Now they’re paying the price. Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier who will appear on the November ballot as the GOP candidate against Democratic...

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Iowa Republican leaders voiced concern Tuesday about a trade war after President Donald Trump upped the trade ante with China, threatening to slap tariffs on another $200 billion of products. "We know what happens when tariffs are increased ... and there's retaliation. It hurts agriculture...

Flynn's lawyers and the prosecutors of his case are moving to delay his sentencing, and a judge is going to be asking why. The most likely case is that Flynn still has information that can buy him less time in stir, and the prosecutors are willing to wait until they have it all.

Can President Trump be forced to testify before a grand jury? Can President Trump be forced to testify before a grand jury? Two Supreme Court decisions may point the way to an answer. Trump’s former attorney says that Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading the Russia investigation, has...

During a Senate hearing in late January, Ed Markey asked then-EPA director Scott Pruitt about a little rumor that he’d overheard. “It’s my understanding,” the Massachusetts senator said, “that the EPA has finalized its conclusion that formaldehyde causes leukemia and other cancers and that [the]...

Trump finally does something to drain the swamp.