President-elect Donald Trump has rocked the boat and roiled critics with some of his controversial transition picks and campaign promises but most Americans believe thats just what he should be doing.

Grotesque inequalities of income, wealth, opportunity, and power have caused most Americans to feel angry, surly, cynical, and ready to take a wrecking ball to the whole system.

Columnist Steve Bousquet writes that as a choice for U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi is a major upgrade over Matt Gaetz, but that her record warrants close and critical scrutiny by the Senate.

It's nice to know most Americans have retained their sanity.

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is proposing a new rule to significantly expand coverage of anti-obesity medications for Americans with Medicare and Medicaid. Tens of millions of Americans struggle with obesity. An estimated 42 percent of the U.S. population has obesity, which is now widely recognized as a chronic disease, with increased risk of all-cause mortality…The post...

The European Unions top diplomat said Tuesday there were no excuses for Israel to refuse to implement a ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, saying all its security concerns had been addressed in the U.S.-French-brokered deal.Josep Borrell, the outgoing EU foreign policy chief, called for increased pressure on Israel to blunt extremists in the government who...

Special counsel Jack Smith filed to drop all four of the felonies he charged at Presdent-elect Donald Trump for the crime of telling the American people on Jan. 6, 2021, to peacefully protest, err, oops, to violently storm the U.S. Capitol and incite a riot. When asked why, he said with tears in his eyes, "The plan failed. Trump won." Not really. But it could happen.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) China deployed military aircraft and ships to track and monitor a U.S. Navy plane transiting the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, Beijing said, as the two nations continue to spar over self-ruled Taiwan.The U.S. Navys 7th fleet said in a statement a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft flew through the straits international space in accordance wi...

Millions of Americans with obesity would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with professor Beth Gazley of Indiana University about a U.S. House bill that would punish nonprofits that allegedly support terrorism.

WASHINGTON (AP) Biden seeks Medicare and Medicaid coverage of popular but costly weight-loss drugs for millions of Americans.Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

Fitch Ratings has put some of Adani Groups bonds on watch in preparation for a potential downgrade amid a bribery scandal that shook one of Indias largest industrial conglomerates. Last week, U.S. prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission launched probes into the company on allegations Gautam Adanis renewable energy arm had been giving bribes to local Indian government offici...

Peggy Noonan does what we try to do every day at The Free Press: tell the truth, make sense of things plainly and without pretension, frame the news in a way that helps the reader make sense of things, and put things in a historical context that gives the day-to-day depth and meaning.

Macy's announced an employee has "hid" up to $154 million, prompting the U.S. department store chain to delay the release of its third-quarter earnings report.

Walmart's moves underscore the increasing pressure faced by corporate America as it continues to navigate the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Courts ruling in June 2023 ending affirmative action in college admissions.

A headline on a Nov. 10 Telegram Opinion page op-ed reads “This is an obvious time for a centrist party in America.” I respectfully disagree. More appropriate would be: “Time to elect more centrist Republicans, Democrats and independents to federal offices.” Efforts to create third parties in the U.S. have failed miserably. A principal reason, […]