The president maintains his hold on the Christian right, but his bluster, fight with the pope and portrayal of himself as a Jesus-like figure strain that bond.
A new team could mark a shift away from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unpopular vaccine agenda ahead of the midterms.
Rodney Mims Cook Jr. tried to build an arch in D.C. for years. Now his panel will review the president’s own proposal — and Cook says two more should be built, too.
Most of the almost $100 million raised to influence the vote, heavily favoring Democrats, comes from nonprofits that don’t have to disclose their donors.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has made revising the constitution’s “no-war” clause a priority amid rising threats in Asia, but any change is highly sensitive.
President Trump's timeline for an end to the Iran war continues to shift, U.S. and Iran block the Strait of Hormuz, trapping the Gulf's oil and gas, Trump's allies defend his remarks about Pope Leo.
The White House says it wants to choke off Iran's oil export revenue. But experts say that blockades are often unpredictable and difficult to enforce.
None of the 13 focus group participants — who all voted for President Trump in 2024 — said they would describe the military action in Iran as going well so far.
Data: Gallup; Chart: Axios Visuals New polling shows an uptick in religious fervor among young men, even as overall U.S. levels remain near historic lows . Why it matters: Gen Z still has the highest share of religiously unaffiliated adults in modern history. But small hints of a religious rebound have spawned speculation about how that could reshape politics, culture wars and church strategy for years to come. Driving the news: A Gallup poll released Thursday found that 42% of young men between the ages of 18-to-29 now say religion is "very important" in their lives. - That's up from 28% just a few years ago. - The uptick reverses a long-standing gender gap: "One of the truisms in American social science has been there's a gender gap…
Anthropic users across online forums are raising the same complaint: Claude suddenly feels… bad. Why it matters: The backlash lands just as Anthropic is testing a more powerful model, Mythos — raising questions about whether cutting-edge AI is becoming less accessible even as it gets more capable. Driving the news: Over the past few weeks, users on X, GitHub and Reddit have been swapping anecdotes, benchmarks and prompts in an effort to pinpoint what changed and why. - "Claude has regressed to the point it cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering," an AMD senior director wrote in a widely shared post on GitHub. - Others have posted side-by-side outputs and benchmarks they say show Claude generating answers that are less…