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When Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court was rocked by a pair of allegations of past sexual misconduct, the Trump administration announced that a speedy FBI investigation would get to the bottom of what the Senate deemed “credible allegations” against the judge. Christine Blasey Ford had alleged an assault …

At daybreak, a line of pilgrims stretch back a half mile from a spot that Donald J. Trump will consecrate as hallowed ground at sunset. The ex-president returns today for a rally to Butler, Pennsylvania, where he survived an assassination attempt on July 13. He will be joined by J.D. …

A year after Hamas led the Oct. 7 attacks from Gaza, stunning Israelis with unprecedented carnage, Israel has gone from disbelief in its own security failures to expanding an unprecedented war on all fronts with no end in sight. Israel’s troops are pushing a ground invasion into southern Lebanon as …

For years, Donald Trump had hoped — and tried — to implement programs and federal policies that would allow American police forces to act with impunity and cartoonish levels of brutality. When he was president, several ideas that Trump repeatedly bellowed about in the Oval Office included conducting mass executions, …

As he campaigned for the Democratic vice presidential spot, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz potently skewered Republican VP pick J.D. Vance as “weird” — creating a party-wide attack line on the GOP ticket that quickly got under Donald Trump’s skin. Team Trump has been baffled by the attack — as well …

The war in the Middle East is continuing to spiral toward catastrophe: Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles against Israel Tuesday, targeting what it said were three military bases around Tel Aviv. Only moments before, two attackers fired on a crowd of train passengers in the same city, killing seven …

After having his racist claims about Haitian immigrants challenged as lies, J.D. Vance made a shocking admission on live TV to CNN’s Dana Bash: He was happy “to create stories,” he said, in order to drive media attention to what he described as “the suffering of the American people.” It …

If you are in the business of seeking out public information, it can be frustrating when an agency denies your public records request or refuses to waive any fees it might require before handing over documents. It’s normal to call up the agency and say, Hey! This is important! If …

Thisarticlewas produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published by Rolling Stone with permission. In 2020, Donald Trumplost Georgia to Joe Biden by 11,779 votes out of nearly 5 million cast in the state, one of the closest races in that election. Since that time, the Peach State has seen …

JUÁREZ, MEXICO — It’s mid-June, and Yoemar has lost his shoes. He’s running in wet, muddy socks up the riverbank now. He’s running through thickets of thorny little bushes, his fingers wrapped up in the neck of his t-shirt, pressed to his stinging eyes, his feet skidding against the yellow …