An air of triumph surrounded D.C. Council member Trayon White after a judge declared a mistrial Monday in his federal bribery case, while some of his council colleagues have spoken up about the ethics violations revealed during his legal saga.
President Trump on Tuesday unveiled America.gov, calling it a front door to let citizens find federal services and information with a simple query instead of wandering through the Byzantine federal bureaucracy.
The Senate on Monday approved a bill that would put into law President Trump's policy to stop minting pennies, each of which costs 3.69 cents to produce.
Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two federal indictments against President Donald Trump, told lawmakers on Tuesday that he "will not be silenced by continued threats of prosecution" from the Trump administration and that he believes the rule of law is being threatened like never before.
The hit Israeli thriller Fauda — from creators Lior Raz, who also plays its endearing and reckless Rambo lead, Doron, and Avi Issacharoff — has long endeavored to depict Israel’s perennial conflict with its Palestinian neighbors with both accuracy and Hollywood grip. Earlier seasons indulged a more nuanced narrative, proffering glimpses into the deluge of […]
On Sept. 1, the House voted 370 to 48 to fund the federal government through Dec. 11, a stopgap the Senate had already cleared 90 to 6 three weeks earlier. Twenty-nine Democrats and 19 Republicans voted no. Everyone else called it done. Nobody called it a budget, because it isn’t one. A continuing resolution locks […]
The American College of Surgeons, self-titled “The House of Surgery,” invited Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to give the Olga M. Jonasson Memorial Lecture this past weekend at the annual ACS Clinical Congress. The ACS is the largest and oldest professional society representing the practice of surgery, and fellowship in the ACS is an […]
For the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, I am experiencing a deeply unfamiliar sensation. An election cycle is reaching its peak, but my name is not on the ballot. As a longtime resident of Maryland, I spent 24 straight years down in the political arena. My name was a fixture on […]
In education, accountability is usually measured by what governments require schools to do: administer tests, file reports, meet compliance standards, and undergo periodic reviews and audits. Those tools have a place, but they all share one limitation. They take years to reveal that a child is in the wrong educational environment. Parents whose child is […]
