A slew of events across the nation is to culminate in the capital with the largest fireworks display in history, featuring more than 860,000 shells launched from 10 sites across the National Mall.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Liberty mattered more to them than living out their days in comfort under Britain’s king.
By DEAN KARAYANIS
| |Opinion (Columnists)
As increasingly accurate Ukrainian drones knock out refineries across the country, public pressure is growing for a negotiated end to the war.
By JAMES BROOKE
| |Foreign
A new Cato Institute showed broad civic ignorance among citizens.
By LUKE FUNK
|A recent study links chemical markers in a mother’s third-trimester blood to her child’s later autism diagnosis, though researchers caution the science is still far from clinical use.
By HOLLIE McKAY
|The former transportation secretary’s ordeal, in which his 4-year-old twins were taken into forensic interviews based on a false anonymous tip, is not as rare as it should be.
By HOLLIE McKAY
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What will a state focused on football, corn prices and Warren Buffett say about the new wave in politics?
By DAVID MASTIO
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The backers of the initiative secured 200,000 signatures more than required to get their proposal on the ballot.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Most visitors seem happily unaware of the deluge of criticism of a show extolling America’s successes with an emphasis on patriotism and conservative values.
By DONALD KIRK
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The copy is one of only 11 known to have survived from a batch printed at Exeter, New Hampshire, in July 1776.
By JOSEPH CURL
|Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso say the tribunal unfairly targets Africa — but their own records undercut the claim, even as the ICC’s two decades of stalled prosecutions hand critics on both sides fresh ammunition.
By HOLLIE McKAY
|An early test will come with the scheduled release of $6 billion in Iranian assets currently held by Qatar.
By HOLLIE McKAY
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Gustavo Petro says he delivered the request to President Trump Friday during a phone call.
By LUKE FUNK
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An initial study of a skeleton found under a Dutch church finds the age and sex are consistent with them belonging to the real-life inspiration for the Alexandre Dumas novels.
By DAVID JONES
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The attacker was a woman disguised as a man, a Monaco prosecutor says.
By LUKE FUNK
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Speaking Friday evening at Mount Rushmore, the president warned that America’s history of greatness is threatened by ‘a band of thieves, radicals and lunatics.’
By DAVID JONES
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A founder of the advocacy group United We Eat says many MAHA voters now feel misled by Republicans who never intended to follow through on protecting their health.
By HOLLIE McKAY
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The powerful, he charged, believe that America ‘belongs only to those with the right accent, or the right shade of skin.
By DAVID JONES
|El-Sayed is favored to win the primary in this year’s must-win Senate race for Democrats.
By MATTHEW RICE
|The Florida congresswoman and a small group of hardline conservatives have paralyzed the House for the last two weeks.
By MATTHEW RICE
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By GEORGE WILL
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By DANIEL McCARTHY
Conrad Black, in an excerpt from his new book, argues that America’s survival and prosperity can be traced to President Lincoln’s unique achievements.
By CONRAD BLACK
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A copy of the Declaration of Independence, an original manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous, and a stetson that never reached JFK go under the hammer.
By MARIE POHL
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In his re-imagining of the final months of the screen icon’s life, M. J. Moore avoids conspiracy theories, instead focusing on her fight for control of her career.
By CARL ROLLYSON
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The new Federal Reserve chairman says signaling possible rates changes in advance limits options for the central bank.
By LUKE FUNK
|As interest rates hold steady, the newly installed chairman said he is not committing to holding post-meeting press conferences.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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With interest rate cuts expected to be off the table for at least the near-term, the markets will look for signs of guidance for future rate decisions.
By LUKE FUNK
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The report by Mike Pence’s think tank says the aggressive trade policy wiped out 89,000 manufacturing jobs in the 10 months following its announcement.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Latino students have seen the sharpest rise in numbers since 2000, growing to 18.4 million enrolled students from 10.2 million.
By JOSEPH CURL
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The shake-up comes amid a search for a new president of the public university.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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The dean of undergraduate education described the result as ‘consequential.’
By NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
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Justice mistakenly emailed a copy of the special counsel’s Mar-a-Lago report to lawyers for a woman accused of leaking it herself.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
|The powerful, he charged, believe that America ‘belongs only to those with the right accent, or the right shade of skin.
By DAVID JONES
|After having his left arm amputated, Mr. Miller facing as many as 40 complaints of being a scammer.
By GEORGE WILLIS
|The fate of an additional $83 million owed by the president to the journalist could soon be decided by the justices.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
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