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Government cuts under Trump’s second term weakened U.S. emergency, security, and foreign response capabilities, now under scrutiny amid Middle East conflict.

Public opinion polls - to say nothing of the election last year of Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of ...

New international polling from Gallup shows that Americans are exceptionally anxious about their political system.

A partial U.S. government shutdown began Saturday - the third during President Donald Trump's second term - after immigration negotiations between the White House and congressional Democrats collapsed ...

A year into Trump’s second term clarifies what his presidency aims to accomplish. On the one hand, his initiatives and their impacts are widely overemphasized. Far less well recognized are how ...

Divisions within the US population on social and political issues have increased by 64% since 1988, with almost all this coming after 2008, according to a study tracking polarization from the end of ...

The partial US government shutdown is on track to end later Tuesday after the House passed a funding deal President Donald Trump negotiated with Senate Democrats, overcoming opposition from both ends ...