The rush to exonerate Trump from the implications of the Epstein birthday book message reveals a contradiction at the heart of MAGA. In the immediate aftermath of the Wall Street Journal July scoop about the smarmy message Trump included in the book of friendly tributes assembled in 2003 for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance said Monday while hosting Charlie Kirk's radio show that he is "desperate" for national unity after the conservative political activist's killing but that finding common ground with people who celebrated the assassination of his friend is ...

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 16, the 259th day of 2025. There are 106 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1893, the largest land run in U.S. history occurred as more than 100,000 white settlers rushed to claim more than 6 million acres of land in what is now northern Oklahoma. Also on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Family and friends of the 22-year-old accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk described his politics as veering left in recent years as he spent large amounts of time scrolling the "dark corners of the internet," Utah Gov. Spencer Spencer Cox said ...

Today is Monday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2025. There are 107 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1963, four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually ...

Some offenses are so heinous they can never be wiped from the record — criminal or moral. There's no normalizing first- or second-degree murder. Not by having done the time with good behavior, not by getting a college degree, not by apologizing. Other crimes don't, in themselves, warrant a ...