Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios Colleges are reevaluating longstanding hallmarks of the admissions process as they try to figure out how to attract a diverse student body in a world without affirmative action. Why it matters: The Supreme Court is widely expected to rule later this year that schools can't explicitly consider applicants' race. And trying to achieve the same ends through […]

Photo: Rebecca Noble/AFP via Getty Images House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is privately telling big-dollar donors that bad candidates for governor and Senate were a top reason the GOP didn't win more House seats in 2022, emphasizing that quality candidates matter up and down the ticket. Why it matters: By explaining why his party underperformed in the last election, McCarthy […]

A memorial for the victims of the shooting at the club in Colorado Springs, Colorado in Nov. 2022. Photo: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post Right-wing extremists committed every ideologically driven mass killing identified in the U.S. in 2022, with an "unusually high" proportion perpetrated by white supremacists, according to a new report published Thursday. Driving the news: The high number of […]

Richard Tice has hit back against allegations that he offered £400,000 to a Tory MP to defect to Reform UK (previously the Brexit Party). With Reform UK hitting 10 percent in a poll this week as the Tories continue to struggle, there have been suggestions that Mr Tice has been attempting to woo Conservative MPs to defect. However, the bitterness […]

Former President Trump speaks at Republican Party event in New Hampshire in January. Photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images Part of an Atlanta grand jury's investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election will be made public on Thursday, Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney said Monday. Why it matters: The report's recommendations are expected to influence Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis' decision […]

PMQs: Rishi Sunak grilled on Liz Truss time as Prime Minister We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Liz Truss’s political ambitions have not ended with her […]

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the effort by relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to seize $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan central bank funds to pay off judgment debts owed by the Taliban, in part because he said doing so would mean effectively recognizing the militants as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. In a 30-page […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced he was suspending Russia’s participation in a new major arms control pact with the United States. The Startegic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, remains the only key nuclear arms control agreement between the two major nuclear powers. Signed in 2010 by the then U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev to […]