Kendra Secrett

If roles were somewhat reversed and Americans were grading the country’s schools, there’d be some explaining to do at parent-teacher conferences.

Approval of President Trump’s job performance has turned further negative over a year-and-a-half into his second administration, with his popularity likely to play a major role in the midterm elections two months from now.

The rapid buildout of AI data centers is drawing growing resistance across the US, with communities raising concerns about electricity bills, water usage, and new projects in their neighborhoods as data-center construction hit a record high in July.

President Trump announced a new oil deal with Venezuela on Friday that would give the US a stake in a private company with rights to a major portion of Venezuela’s oil fields, which contain world’s largest proven crude reserves.

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has intensified this summer, with ICE arrests of immigrants living in the US illegally surging to new heights as the agency increasingly targets people without criminal records.

On Monday, the Supreme Court lifted one of two court orders blocking key provisions of an executive order from President Trump seeking to change how mail-in ballots are handled in federal elections.

The US and Canada are back to trading blows in addition to goods and services, with a fresh round of tariff disagreements breaking out over the weekend.

America’s national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time this week, marking another milestone in Uncle Sam’s decades-long borrowing spree.

Disney-owned ABC sued the Federal Communications Commission yesterday, accusing the agency of violating its First Amendment rights by using regulatory authority to retaliate against the network’s speech.

Many of America’s largest cities are continuing to see a yearslong decline in violent crime through the first half of 2026, according to new data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association.

The ongoing primary season is sending mixed signals about which approach will prove most successful for Democratic party heading into November’s midterms, with Tuesday’s slate of elections producing different outcomes for progressive and moderate candidates.

Starting in fall 2027, all first-year students in Michigan’s College of LSA—which enrolls ~50% of the university’s ~8,000 incoming freshmen—will receive “pass” or “no credit” marks on their transcripts during their first semester, with their usual letter grades hidden.

For years, the road to owning an electric vehicle in the US came with plenty of financial help.

A Senate committee voted yesterday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, after the former top US infectious disease official repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right during testimony last week.

California’s Democratic party has endorsed the state’s proposed 5% wealth tax on all billionaires in the state, after a weekend meeting on Sunday cleared the 60% threshold needed to overcome objections and win the endorsement.

Late Thursday, President Trump announced that negotiators had reached what he called a "historic agreement" on the next phase of his Gaza peace plan, laying out a path for Hamas to relinquish its governing role and military capabilities.

Recent reports from federal agencies paint a conflicting story of how the US economy is doing.

President Trump this week intensified his push for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to eliminate the filibuster so Republicans can pass his voting bill, known as the SAVE America Act, before the midterm elections.

Sunday marked exactly 100 days until Americans head to the polls for the 2026 midterm elections.

Yesterday, President Trump unveiled plans to add a new condition to the landmark US-Saudi nuclear agreement announced earlier this week, saying the deal will only move forward if Saudi Arabia joins the Abraham Accords and normalizes relations with Israel.