The subhead on a now-infamous 2009 op-ed (paywall) by Republican operative Karl Rove detailing a plan to redraw district lines to make it easier for GOP candidates to get elected and stay in power succinctly summarized the goal: “He who controls redistricting can control Congress.”
The US is withdrawing about 60% of its embassy staff from Havana after attacks that caused traumatic brain injuries and permanent hearing loss in at least 21 diplomats and their families, according to the Associated Press.
A two-year FBI investigation into kickbacks and corruption at the highest levels of US college basketball has borne fruit. Ten people, including ex-National Basketball Association (NBA) star Chuck Person and a senior executive at Adidas, are facing federal charges including bribery and fraud, US federal authorities said this morning.
Anthony Weiner has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for sexting with a teenager and, if the photographs of him leaving the federal courthouse in Manhattan are any indication, the former US congressman has hit an all-time low.
Over the weekend, an aggrieved president Donald Trump took to Twitter fourteen times to denounce what he said was as an act of “total disrespect” by players who knelt during the US national anthem to protest racial injustice in the United States as well as his comments that owners who see a player taking a knee should “get that son of a bitch off the field right now.”
Mark Zuckerberg has revealed one of his deepest-held anxieties—and it apparently is not that the social platform he runs may have enabled Russia to increase its insidious influence on the 2016 US presidential election.
US president Donald Trump spoke for the first time at the UN General Assembly this morning, giving a bombastic address reiterating his “America First” message to the world.
US president Donald Trump will give his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this morning.
As Civil War monuments are toppled across America, a city in Ontario just debuted a new one. It is the only national monument for the tens of thousands of Canadians who fought in the US civil war.
In 1929, 17-year-old Mary Anne MacLeod left Glasgow on the SS Transylvania to join a “well-established community of countrymen and women,” which included two of her sisters, in New York City. Scots like MacLeod had been emigrating for years in search of a better life, the New Yorker’s Mary Pilon writes.
Last July, Sheryl Sandberg endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in a lengthy post that opened with her daughter’s poignant question:
After nearly two decades in space, the Cassini mission to Saturn is going out with an intentional bang.
As Hurricane Irma makes its way toward Florida, requisite preparations are underway at Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach private club and so-called “Winter White House” owned by US president Donald Trump.
Shortly after the Trump administration announced it would rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, former US president Barack Obama spoke out against the decision, calling it both “self-defeating” and “cruel.”
As Texans begin a long and expensive road to recovery in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, forecasters are already closely tracking another massive hurricane, Irma, which is quickly approaching the Caribbean.
As the floodwaters begin to recede from Harvey, a natural disaster that has claimed at least 38 lives, residents in Houston and beyond are grappling with a new reality in a car-dependent region: When the roads become passable, how will they get around?
Hurricane Harvey, which has already devastated much of Houston, Texas, made a second landfall early this morning (Aug. 30), hitting the state’s southeast coast as well as western Louisiana, inundating homes and businesses with rapidly rising floodwaters.
Just because you’re touring a natural disaster doesn’t mean you have to look like one.
Residents in Houston, Texas, awoke this morning to submerged roads, power loss, tornado warnings, and widespread damage as Hurricane Harvey’s relentless rain continued to fall over the nation’s fourth most-populous and notoriously flood-prone city.
Preparations are underway across the Gulf Coast of the southern US today as residents brace for the first big hurricane of the season.
In an increasingly polarized America, the sports giant ESPN has pulled off a highly improbable feat: simultaneously angering both conservatives and progressives—albeit for different reasons.
A bout of verbal posturing between US president Donald Trump and the North Korean regime has set the world’s nerves on edge. Could two ill-tempered leaders—with an eerily similar line in inflammatory rhetoric—goad each other into nuclear war? Quartz asked three Pyongyang experts to help explain what we know and don’t know about North Korea’s capacity to attack the US, and the US’s capacity to respond.
In his six-month tenure as press secretary for Donald Trump, Sean Spicer defended the US president’s inauguration crowd size as the largest ever (it wasn’t), accidentally claimed Hitler didn’t use gas on his own people, and memorably hid in the dark among several White House bushes.
Winter officially came for Game of Thrones viewers last week, and if the show’s first episode is any indication, we’re in for a tumultuous season.
