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White House officials say they're planning to replace Tillerson with Pompeo, whose role as CIA head would be filled by Tom Cotton. Among our endangered English words: “proditomania,...
North Korea’s missile test, demonstrating that Washington D.C. is technically within its reach, puts new strain on US-China relations. A Russian television show in Syria shows grateful...
An explanation of the legal tug of war that's left the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with two acting directors, one newly appointed by Trump and the other tapped by...
ISIS has yet to claim responsibility for the attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt that killed 305. TIME says it didn’t offer its “Man of the Year...
Your Headlines Edition will be off for the next two days, and will return on Saturday, stuffed with dressing and deeply discounted smart TVs. After Zimbabwe's government had...
Putin hugs Assad during a rare meeting at a resort on the Black Sea. Putin promised to call Trump afterward to let him know how it went. Justice Department takes ...
Here they are: our favorite, Rooster-worthy novels from 2017. A few weeks from now we’ll narrow these down to our final list for the 2018 Tournament of Books presented by Field Notes.
US-led airstrikes in Iraq have killed many more civilians than we hear about—31 times more, in fact. Here’s the story of one man who found out why...
House Republicans passed their tax overhaul yesterday; the Senate will reconvene after Thanksgiving to vote on its own package. Under the new GOP plan, the only clear winners are businesses....
More women say Roy Moore made unwanted overtures when they were young. He pulled one of them out of trigonometry class to ask her on a date. Republicans who say...
In an apparent coup, Zimbabwe's military has taken custody of President Robert Mugabe, the country's only leader since its independence in 1980. The takeover seems to be in response...
Bob Corker convenes a Senate hearing to examine Trump's authority to deploy nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Sessions may investigate his boss's list of "conservative concerns"—what some call ...
A five-year study of online news chatter confirms that people’s opinions can shift to fit news outlets' ideologies. All those "Trump country" articles won't predict election outcomes;...
White House says Trump and Putin won’t meet officially in Vietnam. Putin’s staff says they’ll meet “on the sidelines.” Profiles of six...
Today Senate Republicans are likely to reveal their tax plan, which is expected to eliminate deduction of state and local taxes and partially remove the estate tax. The new House...
Democrat Ralph Northam won the Virginia’s governor race last night amid a broad sweep for Democrats. Interesting stories from the elections: Maine expanded Medicaid by ballot initiative; Danica...
Despite the Trump administration's attempts to cripple ACA awareness, signups doubled on the first day of open enrollment, compared to 2016. In a reversal of Bush and Obama policies, the...
Lost amidst all of this week's Facebook news was its admission that it now has around 270 million fake accounts. In 2012, when Facebook hit one billion users, many noted that...
The GOP’s new tax bill is both a “sensible framework” and a “deficit-exploding tax cut” for corporations and the wealthy. Here’s what...
Trump's call to execute the terrorist behind this week's attack in New York may compromise the court case, since defense attorneys could argue it prevents the defendant from...