Haley Walks Treacherous Road for G.O.P. Women  —  Nikki Haley's presidential campaign is a major test of her party's views on sexism and female leaders.  Just don't call it identity politics.  —  EXETER, N.H. — According to Nikki Haley, bullies are best subdued by a counter kick — in heels.

Art Fair Visitor Breaks a Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculpture  —  A woman accidentally knocked over a bright blue dog sculpture at Art Wynwood in Miami, causing the $42,000 artwork to shatter, witnesses said.  —  The balloon dog sculptures made famous by Jeff Koons so closely imitate …

Statement on President Carter's Health  —  After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.  He has the full support of his family and his medical team.

28 Children Rescued, 59 Adults Arrested in Massive DFW Child Porn Investigation: Police  —  Local police, FBI work together to rescue 28 children investigators say were sexually abused, exploited online  —  More than two dozen children have been rescued and nearly 60 people …

‘Brainwashing a Generation’: British Schools Combat Andrew Tate's Views  —  Alarmed by an online personality's popularity among their students, educators are mobilizing to combat the sexism he promotes.  —  As the seventh graders settled into a lecture hall at a school near London …

Former president Jimmy Carter opts for home hospice care for final days  —  Jimmy Carter, at 98 the oldest living former president, has chosen to spend his final days at home in Plains, Ga., in hospice care after a series of brief hospital stays, the Carter Center announced Saturday.

February 18, 2023  —  Republican leaders are recognizing that the sight of Republican lawmakers heckling the president of the United States didn't do their party any favors.  —  It not only called attention to their behavior, it prompted many news outlets to fact-check President Biden's claim …

Bernie Sanders: ‘Oligarchs run Russia.  But guess what?  They run the US as well’  —  The veteran senator is now part of Joe Biden's inner circle, and is still fighting his country's vast inequalities  —  fter the State of the Union address at the beginning of this month …

Blinken Has Tense Meeting With Chinese Official Amid Spy Balloon Furor  —  The meeting resumed diplomatic contact between Washington and Beijing that had been frozen since the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon.  —  Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken held what American officials described …

Lawmaker Bares Blow-By-Blow Of Marjorie Taylor Greene Spy Balloon ‘S**tshow’  —  “She's unbelievable... she made a total, absolute fool of herself,” said Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.).  —  A Democratic lawmaker has spilled the tea on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's cringey performance …

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 18, 2023  —  Click here to see ISW's interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report.  —  Russian forces conducted another missile strike targeting Ukrainian infrastructure throughout the country.

Biden's ‘Buy America’ bid runs into manufacturing woes it aims to fix  —  Infrastructure officials complain they can't find U.S. suppliers for items they need to buy American by law  —  The “Buy America” initiative that President Biden says will promote domestic manufacturing and fuel …

‘One of the decisive moments of his presidency’: Biden heads to a troubled Europe  —  MUNICH — President Joe Biden heads to Europe this week in a trip meant to be a show of defiance.  —  He will mark a second year of war by denouncing Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and publicly declare …

Meet Moms for Liberty — the group leading book bans in schools  —  In the ongoing battle over school book bans in Pennsylvania and nationwide, one group is speaking with an outsized voice.  —  Founded in early 2021 in Florida, Moms for Liberty (M4L) has expanded since then and now has over 200 county chapters nationwide in 35 states.