13+ min ago   (792+ words) Mayor Brandon Johnson is launching his reelection campaign Sunday despite daunting approval ratings, betting the progressive coalition that helped elect him in 2023 is stronger now than it was four years ago. The mayor confirmed his plans to POLITICO ahead of…...

3+ hour, 41+ min ago   (453+ words) While it's common to gloss over, even celebrate, enemy combatants' deaths, it's much harder for most of us to dismiss civilian deaths, to believe they're either warranted or otherwise acceptable. But this isn't a given — and there is reason to…...

2+ hour, 56+ min ago   (402+ words) It is comforting to suppose that the resentment and anger we provoke arise from misunderstandings on the part of others. We like to believe that if only those who shun, reproach, or despise us grasped our good intentions, steadfast efforts,…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (146+ words) Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist to discuss President Donald Trump’s impact on campaigning for Republicans ahead of the November midterms elections and his message for voters to pretend he’s on the ballot. “That’s a…...

1+ hour, 26+ min ago   (328+ words) In an escalation of its decade-long hostility toward LGBTQ+ groups, particularly in the lead-up to elections, simultaneous police raids beginning at 1 a.m. took place in the major cities of Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Aydin and Mersin. Justice Minister Akin Gurlek announced on…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (439+ words) With record early voting reported ahead of Sweden's election Sunday, all signs point to the Scandinavian nation of about 10.6 million people as the site of Europe's next major gain for a nationalist party. The election comes a week after the…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago   (265+ words) MADISON, WI − The small plane carrying Rep. Tom Tiffany home from a campaign event lost power late Sept. 12, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in Lake Wausau where Tiffany swam to a shallow area to wait for help....

1+ hour, 9+ min ago   (618+ words) In southeastern Utah, crews had to call in a Chinook helicopter to extract a 75 million-year-old dinosaur fossil after a Black Hawk could not lift the nearly 5,000-pound block of rock around it. On July 13, the place where the fossil was…...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (110+ words) Yahoo Eleven activists were arrested after climbing onto a construction crane to protest against the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid on Sunday, according to media reports. Broadcaster Telemadrid said that the demonstrators planned to hang a banner on…...

1+ hour, 43+ min ago   (609+ words) Last week's Did You Miss It? looked ahead to the Republican Party's first midterm convention in Dallas. This week, the event put American Airlines Center at the center of national politics as President Donald Trump (R) and Vice President JD Vance…...