When Michigan’s oldest operating nuclear power plant shut down in 2022, it was supposed to be for good. The plant, which sits on the coast of Lake Michigan, had company — dozens of other reactors had already been wound down. But soon after the turbines stopped spinning, those plans changed. A little-known company from Camden,…
Water in the Colorado River is dwindling to levels that haven’t been seen in decades, and the seven states whose residents and farmers depend on the river can’t agree on a fair way to divide up what’s left. Negotiations are going nowhere despite more than six months of ongoing talks, plus cajoling by the Trump…
“Somebody at 80 years old just doesn’t have the physical stamina, the mental stamina for that office,” said Rahm Emanuel, a prominent Democrat who is interested in running for president in 2028, and who has called for a mandatory retirement age of 75 for many top federal positions. Mr. Emanuel, who served as a chief…
Democrats are arguing and criticizing and buzzing about candidates like Jon Ossoff, James Talarico and Graham Platner. What about Republicans? The Texas Senate primary drew some attention, and angst. Anyone else? Anywhere in the country? Benjamin Domenech, opinion editor of The Daily Wire and the writer of the newsletter The Transom, assessed some of the…
An auction of oil leases in Alaska’s remote Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended on Friday with just nine bids covering only about 10 percent of the available land, undercutting President Trump’s claims that drilling in the pristine wilderness area would set off an economic boom. The sale brought in about $3.7 million, nearly half of…
Jill Biden knew something was wrong before her husband ever took the debate stage. In her memoir, “View from the East Wing,” released on Tuesday, the former first lady wrote that she did a “double take” when she saw President Joseph R. Biden Jr. just before the debate against Donald J. Trump in June 2024….
The Energy Department has issued new guidance that could prevent people from receiving rebates for replacing gas appliances with electric ones. The guidance, which took effect on Friday, would prevent states from offering rebates to people who buy an electric stove to replace a gas range. It would also end rebates for similar swaps of…
Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. sued the Justice Department late Tuesday in an attempt to block the release of recorded interviews he had with his ghostwriter while drafting his 2017 memoir. The recordings came into the Justice Department’s possession in 2023, under Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, when a special counsel investigated Mr. Biden…
Helen Comperatore has heard the conspiracy theories about the assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pa., that killed her husband. She has watched them migrate from the political left to the political right, elements in both holding that her husband, Corey Comperatore, was a human sacrifice to lend credibility to a plot to…
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A new government report accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of fomenting “anti-Christian bias” is being met with mixed reactions from Christian leaders, with some conservatives celebrating the study and others arguing it appears narrowly focused on the concerns of evangelical Christians and obscures President Donald Trump’s own conflicts with faith groups. The…
