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Eight people who federal prosecutors said had ties to the University of Michigan were accused in an indictment unsealed on Wednesday of threatening campus leaders and others to sever ties …

President Trump’s advisers gathered in secret in the Situation Room without him as they struggled to handle the Epstein files scandal, our reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan learned while …

Graham Platner, the progressive oyster farmer who toppled Maine’s political establishment even as a series of unsettling revelations about his past rattled his party, won the Democratic nomination for Senate …

Steve Hilton, a Republican former Fox News host who was endorsed by President Trump, has secured the second spot in the November general election for California governor, The Associated Press …

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A major Democratic super PAC hopes to stretch the midterm battleground map by kicking off a roughly $50 million advertising campaign targeting Republicans in more than a dozen House districts …

San Francisco voters appear to have rejected a significant tax increase on highly paid corporate executives that had been opposed by some of the most powerful people in the tech …

For President Trump, any Democratic election victory is suspicious on its face. Even, apparently, in one of the most liberal cities in America. “Not possible for Spencer Pratt to have …

Meta accused the Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group on Monday of allowing its intrusive surveillance technology to be used to target WhatsApp users, saying the move violated a court order …

Artificial intelligence degrees are no longer just for the universities that teach tech geniuses. Only five schools offered A.I. majors in 2021. Now, universities are setting up programs so quickly …