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Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.

Thailand urged Israel to ensure its citizens respect local laws and customs after a series of incidents involving Israeli visitors fueled tensions in some of the Southeast Asian nation’s most popular…

Foreign secretary Ed Miliband’s intervention expected to provoke rebuke from Washington

Canada struck back at U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday with tariffs on about $20 billion worth of U.S. goods. The outcome could resonate far beyond Canada.

New Hampshire primary voters are choosing candidates for Congress, governor and the state Legislature, with the retirement of U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen creating the most competitive races

Singapore government ministers, already among the best-paid in the world, will get a one-time salary bump of as much as 9%, reviving scrutiny of a pay system that has long been politically sensitive…

Australia proposed new legislation that would allow social media users to opt out of platforms’ algorithms, a potentially far-reaching step that deepens regulatory efforts worldwide to rein in Big…

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s lawmaker-cousin is seeking hospital detention after authorities arrested him for alleged plunder of $118 million in public works funds.

Canada's steep retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion in U.S. goods took effect just after midnight ET on Tuesday, deepening the trade war between the two countries.

A government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse

An alleged assailant forced his way Sunday toward Democratic candidate Amy Acton at a county fair, officials and witnesses said. Authorities said he was carrying two pistols and a Taser.

The 9/11 terror attacks, 25 years ago this week, were planned from inside the Taliban-controlled country of Afghanistan; a country that tonight is not only back under Taliban control, but with…

Economic growth remains the long-term answer to the rising concerns that people have about paying their bills.

Officials investigating cause of deadly Amazon cargo plane crash in Miami; state of emergency in Hawaii as Hurricane Lowell approaches.

Flávio Bolsonaro pulled even with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a new poll as the right-wing senator seizes on turmoil at Brazil’s Supreme Court to rally conservative voters.

Democrat Amy Acton vowed to continue on as a “fierce warrior” in her campaign for Ohio governor Monday, a day after law enforcement officials said an armed man aggressively attempted to confront her…

New York City mayor confirms he will attend memorial service but declines to respond to Giuliani’s remarksNew York mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to come face-to-face with Rudy Giuliani at the main…

David Rubenstein purchased the sculpture, which was removed from the center last week, from the artist’s foundation. He will display it at the National Gallery of Art.

Republicans face tough midterm polls, but two months remain to turn things around. Discover five key steps the GOP must take to keep control of Congress.

On this week's episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney mark Labor Day by giving their g...

Corporate America's woke machinery hasn't been dismantled - it's merely paused, and the midterm elections may determine whether Woke 2.0 returns.

Small business owners in New York sued the Mamdani regime for using taxpayer dollars to compete against them, threatening the American Dream.

This party is among the most extreme in Europe. To protect our democracies, liberal parties must urgently change their tactics, says Cas Mudde, author of The Far Right Today

The British government on Monday condemned the "intimidating and thuggish behavior" of anti-immigrant demonstrators who converged on a port in southern England where migrants were brought ashore…

Reform UK plans to bolster its plans to attract the rich back to the UK should it win power at the next general election, the insurgent party’s Treasury spokesman, Robert Jenrick, said.

A California lawmaker participated in a high-dollar NFL survivor pool run through a Sacramento dive bar and and signed his official work signature, records show.

The "extraordinary" result may be the "most consequential German state-election result of the postwar era," according to analysts.

John Healey wants “to gets things done,” Britain’s new finance minister said in his first major speech on Monday. The problem is that the country’s fiscal position keeps deteriorating as conflict in…

One of Argentina’s most influential business executives defended his investment strategy in the Falkland Islands as President Javier Milei seeks to pressure companies to sever ties with the British…

A liquefied natural gas tanker that loaded in Qatar early last month has sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, the first visible exit of the country’s LNG via the waterway since July.

France is on track with its plan to send SAMP/T air defense systems to Ukraine, according to an official in President Emmanuel Macron’s office who briefed reporters on Monday.

Former New York Gov. George Pataki said this week that he has a lung condition caused by exposure at ground zero of the Sept. 11 terror attack.

The September 11 attacks 25 years ago left a lasting impact on the United States, affecting not just those who lost loved ones but the entire nation

Rep. Lauren Boebert has joined the ranks of political leaders who want to rein in the growing use of Flock license plate readers on public roads.

Those who have walked through grief know that the waves never completely disappear; they aren't supposed to.

The comparison works in reverse too. To make Lindsay Clancy representative of ordinary women is to make ordinary women more like Clancy

Clancy's case became a referendum on mothers, healthcare, and the status of women

Trump and MAGA did not operate in a vacuum in the decade between 2015 and his re-election in 2024. His formal opposition was no longer the liberal Democrats of old but rather a new, far more radical…

It turns out most of us no longer believe in progress. And when that happens, it quickly becomes a crisis for societies like ours

Three weeks before the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt went to the polls to elect a new legislature on September 6, Germany's leading news magazine, Der Spiegel, ran a cover story

Tonight Germany stands on the brink of its biggest political crisis since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not since 1945 has a nationalist party of the hard-Right won power at state level in the Federal…

The left wing of the Democratic Party flourished this summer as fed-up liberals in key races across the country have eschewed traditional, more moderate candidates in favor of hard-charging…

Union bosses exploit Labor Day to push coercive policies like the PRO Act, which would repeal right-to-work laws and force compulsory union dues.

Americans need an economy that works for working people.

Gov. Joe Lombardo, one of the most vulnerable Republican governors this cycle, has zeroed in on a cross-border boogeyman in the Democratic governor of California.

The Alternative for Germany’s record election victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday marked a milestone not just for the far right but for Europe’s tilt toward Vladimir Putin.

A former staffer confirmed that Sen. John Fetterman has routinely dismissed and at times refused to do core aspects of the job.

HHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conductedThe US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released a report…

Undermining the rule of law and a relatively free market will have long-term ramifications.

America’s institutions are overproducing ambitious young people hungry for consequence. The DSA is exploiting that reality.

Socialism doesn’t protect the dignity of individual workers — the free market does.

At best, organized labor ratified improvements in living standards that were already enabled by rising productivity.

There’s a world in front of you to make better.

Antiestablishment candidate Randy Villegas is testing the conventional wisdom about what it would take to unseat Rep. David G. Valadao in California.

The swing state of Wisconsin had one of the most undemocratic State Assembly maps in the country. Now Democrats have a chance to take control of the legislature.

Steel drums, flag-draped floats, and the smell of jerk chicken will fill Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway on Monday, as hundreds of thousands turn out for the West Indian Day Parade, one of the largest…

Gen. Christopher T. Donahue’s vision for fighting future wars won him powerful supporters around the world. Could they save his career?

First, man unknowingly buys former plantation house where his ancestors were enslaved. Then, a look at the Amsterdam improv club behind comedy legends.

An Amazon cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport and struck several vehicles, killing at least five people. Gas prices rise for Labor Day weekend.

Proposition 3 would make California’s existing higher income-tax rates for people earning more than $371,000 permanent.

The following is the transcript of the interview with Sunoco chairman Ray Washburne, Republican midterm election chair, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Sept. 6, 2026.

The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. Lisa McClain, Republican of Michigan, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Sept. 6, 2026.

The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. Jason Crow, Democrat of Colorado, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Sept. 6, 2026.

The following is the transcript of the interview with Energy Secretary Chris Wright that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Sept. 6, 2026.

On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Rep. Jason Crow join Margaret Brennan.

Sen. John Fetterman said former staffers posting unflattering claims about him on X aren't telling the truth

The state has not elected a Republican to the Senate since 2010. But Chris Pappas, the likely Democratic nominee, anticipates a tough race against a well-known opponent, John E. Sununu.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said President Trump is right to question "partisan" television networks.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed executive orders recognizing the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and handed one of the pens to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who once…

The Maryland Democrat said Trump has “undoubtedly” committed impeachable offenses but that it was more important for Democrats to address healthcare and “ending the lawlessness.”

This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," with midterm elections less than two months away, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson joins as well as Reps. Jason Crow and Lisa McClain.…

Hosted by Lee Cowan. Featured: Looking back at 9/11; Robert De Niro on revitalizing Lower Manhattan; how Gander, Newfoundland responded to 9/11; postpartum psychosis; Gloria Steinem and the founding…

Public sentiment against data centers is running high this election season, leaving politicians of all stripes scrambling to respond. We look at how this is playing out in Pennsylvania.

A well-resourced Navy will lessen the burden on sailors, attract new recruits, and build the systems of tomorrow.

I don’t think I know how to.

Long live the professional fact-check.

Given Trump’s tirades about Chávez’s theft of American property, it’s worth spotlighting the cynicism.

The investigation appears focused on whether officials are adequately supervising children in and out of school, with scrutiny on attendance and social worker visits.

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held meetings in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Zelenskyy on Sunday, a day after lengthy conversations with Russian President Putin in Moscow.

Unlike dozens of similar strikes, no one was killed after people suspected of drug smuggling were removed from what the U.S. military described as a floating refueling station.

While DSA honchos inside Chicago’s Hyatt Regency were telling more than 2,000 comrades that “we need to rebuild labor power” as they unveiled their 2026 program, ironically titled “Workers Deserve…

Iran war sends gas, diesel prices soaring; U.S. strikes 3 Iranian oil tankers.

Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith and Miami’s Malachi Toney have wasted no time launching their respective Heisman Trophy campaigns

Guyana is one of more than 30 nations that have now signed deals with the Trump administration as part of President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.

Three Iranian crude oil carriers were hit by U.S. forces on Saturday near Iran's key oil export hub, Kharg Island, in the Gulf, U.S. Central Command reported.

The event with the Georgia and Texas Democrats will be hosted by Shonda Rhimes.

Activists are calling on the state attorney general to take action against hospitals that have ended gender-affirming care programs after Trump retook officeA group of trans activists from across…

From AOC’s viral egg-freezing to the proclamations of transhumanists, we are a society increasingly in denial about the limits of the human body.

Bill Gates’s cooling on climate change is part of a long-established pattern among doomsayers.

Solutions to the challenges faced by college sports can’t come at the expense of competitive fairness for female athletes.

Supporting a stable world order that promotes the rule of law has made the U.S. the most prosperous nation in history. Trump has little time for that.

The US defense secretary faces internal dissent and discord at the Pentagon, accused of focusing on culture war issues and his own political ambitions as the Iran war drags onIn a different…

Progressive candidates navigate their ties to the DSA as the group faces historic growth and mounting pressureDays before he won the Democratic primary for a US Senate seat in Michigan, insurgent…

As political races heat up heading into the midterms, candidates from both parties are increasingly joining the fray to voice concerns over Flock surveillance cameras.