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Record numbers of people crossed the US border last year. Here’s a guide to understanding what’s happening. Migrants walk towards the US-Mexico border wall for processing by US Border Patrol agents in February 2024. John Moore/Getty Images The biggest spectacle…

The investigator said Biden presented as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” — a political gift to Trump and the GOP. President Biden addresses House Democrats at a retreat In Leesburg, Virginia, on Thursday. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Andrew…

Pakistan’s military drives its politics. And Pakistanis lose. Election workers sort ballot papers at a polling station in Lahore, Pakistan, on February 8, 2024. Rebecca Conway/Getty Images Ellen Ioanes covers breaking and general assignment news as the weekend reporter at…

Trump’s Supreme Court lawyer was a disaster, and it won’t matter one bit. Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump stands on stage during a campaign event at Big League Dreams Las Vegas on January 27, 2024 in…

The Court’s GOP-appointed majority is very likely to rule for Trump. But it also matters how they rule for Trump. US President Donald Trump stands with newly sworn-in Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett during a ceremonial swearing-in event…

What we mean when we say there’s a border crisis. An immigrant family wades through the Rio Grande while crossing from Mexico into the United States on September 30, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. John Moore/Getty Images Nicole Narea covers…

A fully funded IRS would bring in twice as much money as they previously thought, a Treasury report finds. A brave tax cop doing tax cop things in Palm Springs, California, during a corruption probe in 2015. Gregg Felsen/Getty Images…

The justices had their shot to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. Now they need to stop delaying his criminal trial. Former President Donald Trump at the swearing-in of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Getty Images Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox,…

Republicans are using impeachment as a political distraction. US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press conference at a US Border Patrol station on January 08, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas.  John Moore/Getty Images Li Zhou is…

It’s hard to imagine this Supreme Court removing Trump from the ballot. But his lawyers gave the justices very little to work with. Then-President Donald Trump greets two of his appointees to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, left, and Brett…