Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles  —  With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.

Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment  —  The president-elect's early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.  —  Somehow disruption doesn't begin to cover it.

Enough  —  For the past decade, as Donald Trump has risen in political stature, I have waited for that precarious but inevitable moment when his well-documented liabilities would end his political ascendancy, when it would all finally be too much.  I waited through scandalous allegations …

Pollster Ann Selzer ending election polling, moving ‘to other ventures and opportunities’  —  Public opinion polling has been my life's work.  I collected my first research data as a freshman in college, if you don't count a neighborhood poll I did at age 5.

Trump Makes RFK Jr. Pose with McDonald's Meal  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's set to run the Health and Human Services Department, recently complained that flying with Trump means eating “poison”  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services …

Haitian immigrants flee Springfield, Ohio, in droves after Trump election win  —  City subjected to false rumors from Trump loses residents integral to community over mass deportation fears  —  From a tiny office behind a Haitian grocery store on Springfield's South Limestone Street …

Musk appears to pressure Trump on Cabinet and tariffs, irking advisers  —  Elon Musk, the billionaire who has become Donald Trump's “first buddy,” appeared to publicly pressure the president-elect on economic policy and a key Cabinet pick.  —  Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire …

Trump Team Is Seeking to Ease US Rules for Self-Driving Cars  — Policy leaders are being pursued for key Musk priority  — Tesla CEO, named to efficiency role, plans push on robotaxis  —  Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team have told advisers they plan …

In Donald Trump, the morality of civil society has been abandoned  —  Limiting access to civic education in US schools leads people to be less well educated in basic principles  —  The reason Donald Trump won is because he exemplifies men who think only of themselves.

Trump defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth denies sexual assault allegation, acknowledges payment to accuser  —  In a statement, Hegseth's attorney said the former Fox News host paid a woman in 2023 who had previously accused him of sexual assault but maintained that the woman lied.

Speaker Mike Johnson leaves the door open to recess appointments  —  The House speaker Johnson told “Fox News Sunday” that “we'll have to see how this develops” when asked whether he'd let Trump bypass the usual Senate confirmation process.  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday left …

From the Amazon rainforest, Biden declares nobody can reverse US progress on clean energy  —  Joe Biden witnessed the devastation of drought up close as the first sitting American president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that nobody can reverse “the clean energy revolution that's underway …

Donald Trump's Cabinet of Wonders  —  The President-elect's nominations look like the most flagrant act of vindictive trolling since the rise of the Internet.  But it is a trolling beyond mischief.  —  In the first few days after the reëlection of Donald Trump, one heard across …