Multiple Trump supporters claim they suffered a mysterious eye injury and were forced to seek medical attention over the “unbearable” pain after sitting behind the former president during his rally in Arizona. Mayra Rodriguez was among Trump’s most loyal backers seated in a confined portion of the right side of the stage behind the former president at Ronstadt Music Hall in Tucson on Sept. 12, KVOA reported. Rodriguez claimed she started experiencing eye irritation when she...

The Federal Reserve announced its first interest rate cut in four years Wednesday, one of its most consequential decisions in recent memory, a move likely to be panned by former President Donald Trump and celebrated by Vice President Kamala Harris. Interest rates can become a hot-button issue around elections, considering lower rates are a much more popular policy as they can boost personal finances with cheaper mortgages and lower interest on student...

The instances detailed in the reports from the EPA’s inspector general pertain to situations where the employees who were victims of alleged retaliation thought chemicals should be considered more toxic while top officials sought to consider them safer.  In one such case, EPA scientist Sarah Gallagher says she thought the agency should consider the chemical as toxic to fetal development while another official wanted to classify it as a lower-priority body...

One of the seminal moments of presidential debates came in a 1980 tussle between the Republican challenger and the Democrat incumbent. Challenging Jimmy Carter’s record as part of his closing statement , Ronald Reagan asked: “Are you better off than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago?” Last Tuesday, in the very first question of her first presidential debate, Kamala Harris was asked that very thing — are Americans better...

Scores of Jews from around the world are visiting Israel to tour the grounds of the Nova music festival and burned out kibbutzim, bearing witness and reflecting on the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. The trips are shoring up Israel’s tourism industry after the war brought it to an abrupt halt—but critics say the narrow focus on this tragedy pushes the suffering of Gazans to the periphery, even as bombs drop less than 10 miles away from the tourists. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access...

Iranian hackers stole sensitive information from the Trump campaign earlier this summer and emailed it to individuals affiliated with the Biden campaign, U.S. investigators revealed Wednesday. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI and CISA released a statement saying the emails were sent in June and July and "contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump's campaign."

When immigration opponents make the case for closing the country's borders, one common argument is the costs that immigrants incur. But recent statistics throw cold water on those claims, finding that the foreign-born actually use fewer public health dollars than people born in the U.S. "Immigrant households have much higher use of…Medicaid (42 percent vs. 23 percent)" than native-born households, according to a 2015 report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). "Prior research...

Israeli officials announced Thursday the arrest of an Israeli man whom Iran recruited to carry out assassination plots against top Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The individual was identified as Moti Maman, 73. He was indicted Thursday, after which Shin Bet, Israel’s security agency, and Israeli police revealed it publicly. Maman was arrested after committing security offenses involving his contact with Iran. Maman was smuggled into Iran twice, according to...

Two years after former President Richard M. Nixon launched a war on drugs in 1971, calling substance use the nation’s “public enemy No. 1,” he made a startling admission during a meeting in the Oval Office. Speaking to a small group of aides and advisers at the White House in March 1973, Nixon said he knew that marijuana was “not particularly dangerous.” Nixon, who had publicly argued that curbing drug use globally warranted an “all-out offensive,” also privately expressed unease...

enator John Kennedy has sparked a backlash after he told an Arab American activist to "hide [her] head in a bag" during a hearing about hate crimes. Maya Berry, the founder of the Arab American Institute, appeared before a Senate Judiciary hearing to discuss hate crimes in the country on Tuesday.