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The first half of 2026 has been a chaotic time for U.S. foreign policy: new tariffs, threats to annex Greenland, the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the struggle for control of the Strait of Hormuz.

As a researc...

President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Walter Reed National Military Medical Center this week for what the White House descr...

President Donald Trump began Memorial Day with a familiar ritual: an early morning social media tirade that mixed patriotic messaging with attacks on political enemies, complaints about Republicans he views as disloyal and a broader sense of grievance that has increasingly defined hi...

Memorial Day weekend is ushering in the unofficial start of summer with two competing realities for travelers: hurricane forecasters expect a quieter Atlantic season than recent years, but Ameri...

Across the first six months of 2026, an unusually high number of theatrically released films have seemed like paired companion pieces, feature-length notes on a theme that can or should be watched back-to-back. This isn’t all that uncommon: Trends crop up in filmmaking all the time, as potential narratives emerge from real-life events and cultural obsessions. Sometimes this h...