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Finger-Pointing Won’t Save Anyone if Default Leads to Economic Collapse

Is it the Biden default? Or the Republican Default on America?Even as negotiators push forward with halting talks to resolve the federal debt-ceiling...

States where abortion is legal, banned or under threat

Access to abortion remains a patchwork of state-by-state policies after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, with abortion restricted across much of...

Why Dianne Feinstein, Like Many Before Her, Refuses to Let Go

Former Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, has put on a suit nine times since 2014, when he retired after serving in Congress...

Opinion | What it costs to cancel a trip to Papua New Guinea

Comment on this storyCommentYou’re reading the Today’s Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox.Pulling out the (nuclear) footballThe island nation...

Airman to Remain Detained as He Awaits Trial

A federal magistrate ruled on Friday that Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Air Force National Guardsman accused of posting scores of secret documents to...

DeSantis Amps Up His Retail Campaign in New Hampshire

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Friday hinted at how he might try to soften his image as a conservative hard-liner, a strategy...

Opinion | How to help Ukraine in the long-term

The war between Russia and Ukraine is the ongoing, life-or-death case study of a live, as-it-happens, conventional (nonnuclear, so far) war between two...

Opinion | On the Durham report, don’t fall for misinformation about misinformation

Comment on this storyCommentIf you read Marc A. Thiessen’s May 18 op-ed, “A damning indictment of the FBI — and the media” and...

Opinion | In Fairfax County, the eyes of Big Brother are on our children

Fairfax County School Board members are considering an Orwellian bias-incident reporting system for the district’s students. A similar reporting system is facing an...

Opinion | Crime doesn’t have to be violent to create a sense of lawlessness

Comment on this storyCommentBrazen shootings and carjackings are headline-grabbing offenses that spark calls for change in D.C.’s public-safety system. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser...

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