The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.

(Reuters) -The U.S. government is due to lumber back to life on Thursday after the longest shutdown in U.S. history snarled air traffic, cut food assistance to low-income Americans and forced more than 1 million workers to go unpaid for more than a month.

Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X unveiled a feature that lets users see where an account is based. Online sleuths and experts quickly found that many popular accounts, often posting in support of the U.

Campaign donations from the country’s richest are soaring. But only 12 percent of the public says billionaires have a positive impact on society. In the past decade, billionaires have been more empowered than ever before to spend money to influence American elections.

A National Guard member died on Thursday after being shot near the White House in an ambush that investigators say was carried out by an Afghan national, an attack President Donald Trump blamed on Biden-era immigration vetting failures as he ordered a sweeping review of asylum cases.

Photos and video of immigrants in custody have been a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s administration, and illustrate his agenda to crack down on immigration.

Newsom’s approval rating in California was on a downward trend from 2020 to 2024. A U.C. Berkeley poll conducted in April found that by more than 2 to 1, voters felt he was giving more attention to preparing for a presidential campaign than to fixing the state’s problems.

Latin America's political map is tilting to the right just as Washington signals deeper support for ideologically aligned governments, a convergence that investors say is starting to reshape how risk is priced across the region's assets.

The year 2026 marks a pivotal moment in Donald Trump’s second term: Americans head to the polls in the mid-term elections to decide the fate of the Trumpian reign.

A Democratic state lawmaker is calling for Native American representation to remain on the state flag while also raising concerns about the state commission tasked with redesigning it. State Sen. Nick Collins (D-First Suffolk),