When President Donald Trump met Syria’s new president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, for the first time last month, he came away impressed with the man’s vision, stamina and looks. “Young, attractive guy, tough guy,” Trump told reporters after the session. “Strong past, very strong past. … He’s got a real shot at holding it together.”

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Usually when people announce, “Here’s the thing,” I want to ask, really? Did God stop by today with a cheese danish for the both of you, to tell you what the thing was?

But here’s the thing: We’re going to need you this Saturday.

What is happening in Los Angeles with the National Guard is not simply President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

Starting today, the Trump administration will impose a long-expected revamp of the cruel policy that made it very clear during the early days of his first term that the president was not bluffing on his desire to indiscriminately target entire classes of immigrants in his promised crackdown: the travel ban.

This time, President Donald Trump has...Read more

It’s time for President Donald Trump, despite his own casual relationship with the truth, to stop putting American lives at risk and get rid of his dangerous quack in chief, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In his latest broadside against science, Kennedy is removing all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for ...Read more

The race to develop artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities will play a decisive role in the “New Cold War” with China.

America currently enjoys a multi-year lead in cutting-edge AI technologies. This lead is protected by export controls that prevent China from obtaining America’s best technology and slow its progress in developing AI ...Read more

The actor Sean Penn has summed up the problem with Pete Hegseth, and by extension the administration of President Donald Trump. “I’ve never before seen a Secretary of Defense so aggressively demote himself to the rank of Chief PETTY Officer,” Penn said upon hearing that the Pentagon boss has ordered the Navy to rename an oiler called the ...Read more

President Donald Trump has resurrected the travel ban from his first term. This time, it’s more expansive and better designed to withstand a judicial challenge. But it’s still a solution in search of a problem — and likely to cause massive disruption for U.S. residents with friends and family overseas.

The ban went into effect at the ...Read more

Many voters elected President Donald Trump to end border chaos. Illegal immigration remains low, but voters’ opinions of his immigration policies as a whole have soured. The reason is that they view Trump’s actions away from the border as just more chaos. Americans aren’t against enforcement. But not like this.

So what’s the root ...Read more

From generation to generation, it seems, Los Angeles burns.

During World War II, white Angelenos attacked Mexican and Filipino Americans who wore zoot suits as identifiers of racial pride and protest. In 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called in to help bring a peaceful end to the Watts Riots. While condemning the violence, King called ...Read more

Like all sponsors of science programs, NASA has had its ups and downs. What makes it unique is that its achievements and failures almost always happen in public.

Triumphs like the moon landings and the deep-space images from the Hubble and Webb space telescopes were great popular successes; the string of exploding rockets in its early days and ...Read more

Finally obeying the Supreme Court’s ruling 9-0 to return to the U.S. Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland man with legal protections who was illegally sent to the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, the Trump administration has followed the law and brought him back. That is good.

But this being the Trump administration, Abrego García is now ...Read more

On April 24, President Donald Trump issued another questionable executive order, this one calling for deep-sea mining in both federal and international waters. The former is within his control; the latter would be a violation of international law.

Although the U.S. is not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea— the...Read more

American history has the receipts. As we approach the 250th anniversary of this nation’s birth, it ought to be common knowledge that putting the National Guard into the center of turmoil is not to be taken at all lightly.

Federalizing the California Guard to quell a supposed insurrection on the streets of greater Los Angeles is a bold move ...Read more

It should have made headlines when recently, 12,000 lives were placed on the line because a shipment of day-old chicks, turkeys, geese and quail was abandoned in a stifling U.S. Postal Service (USPS) truck. Trapped for days with no food or water, thousands of these vulnerable chicks perished before being discovered. The post office had deemed ...Read more

The popcorn emoji is out in force as the world’s richest person feuds with its most powerful leader. Even Thierry Breton, the European regulator who was a frequent target of Elon Musk’s ire, is at it. Still, as entertaining as the billionaire’s spat with President Donald Trump may be, it also carries costly lessons for a $630 billion space...Read more

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is on pace to set a record that no one should admire and that any Floridian of conscience should regret.

He will finish his second term having carried out 48 executions, the most in Florida since records have been kept, if he continues at his current accelerated rate.

Five executions have occurred since February, with...Read more

The roiling confrontation in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement has laid bare President Donald Trump’s hunger for confrontation with those sections of the country that oppose him and his agenda. In words and actions alike, Trump has shown he views blue states and cities not as legitimate partners in governing, but as hostile territory to...Read more

After President Donald Trump illegally federalized and deployed 2,000 California National Guard troops to ostensibly a nonexistent rebellion in Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom has sued the White House and Pentagon.

Good; in this country, these are battles that should be fought in the courts, not the streets, and an independent federal judge ...Read more

Twice in a recent two-week period, two men were arrested for terrorist attacks while invoking “Free Palestine.” For them, the phrase served as a rallying cry sanctioning violence.

Their targets were, in the deadly Washington, D.C., attack outside the Jewish Museum, a young couple, and in Boulder, Colorado, people attending a vigil for the ...Read more

The use of the military to quell protests is something associated with dictators in foreign countries, and as of Saturday night, with a president of the United States.

When President Donald Trump federalized 2,000 members of the California National Guard, deploying them because of protests against federal immigration authorities, he sent a ...Read more