The concept of “innocent until proven guilty” has long been recognized by the Supreme Court as a fundamental legal right of Americans, but don’t tell that to radical, left-wing Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. As much as Krasner touts the importance of constitutionality, one would think he knows this. But that hasn’t stopped him from […]
Responsible journalism has a standard — one that matters most when emotions run high. After 9/11, news organizations were careful to separate Islam from the extremists who claimed to act in its name. That distinction became a bedrock norm: separate a faith from those who weaponize it. The question raised by CNN’s recent documentary on […]
President Donald Trump is saying he wants to end the Iran war within the next few weeks, according to White House insiders. This fits his frequent comparisons of the action against Iran with the swift operation against Venezuela in January. He has compared the two expeditions many times, such as when, a week into Operation […]
The United States is building far fewer semiconductors today than it once did, leaving the country increasingly dependent on foreign producers. The U.S.’s share of worldwide semiconductor manufacturing decreased from 37% in 1990 to less than 10% in 2022. To ameliorate this shift, Congress had taxpayers front $280 billion via the 2022 Creating Helpful Incentives […]
The population of some of the largest U.S. metro areas is falling amid a decline in immigration, according to new estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday. The data found that most U.S. metropolitan areas saw slower growth between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, than during the previous year. Metro areas...
The Pentagon is contemplating diverting weapons meant for Ukraine to the Middle East as the U.S. military has blown through critical munitions in its war against Iran, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The lethal aid could include air defense interceptor missiles ordered through a new NATO program, the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative, through which partner...
Presented by Alliance for Aging Research {beacon} Health Care Health Care PRESENTED BY The Big Story ‘Medicare by Choice’ floated an alternative to Medicare for All While Medicare for All remains a popular policy goal among progressives, one group is putting forward its own proposal, “Medicare by Choice,” that it sees as a...
ATLANTA – March Madness is shining a spotlight on sports betting across the United States. The practice is already legal in a majority of states and Washington, D.C., leaving about a dozen, including California, Texas, Utah and Hawaii, where bets on sports are illegal. Americans will legally wager $3.3 billion on the NCAA men's and women's Division I basketball tournaments this year, the American Gaming Association...
Skeptics of a clean reauthorization of the nation’s warrantless spy powers are working on new language with the White House after a meeting with top Trump administration officials, lawmakers said. “I can tell you that we're working on fresh language right now, and I'm involved in that. And it's based upon an understanding and respect...
A GOP-led redistricting push in Utah failed to make the ballot after opposition groups campaigned for voters to remove their signatures from a petition required to ensure the measure was included in the general election later this year. The Beehive State requires support for legislation with 141,000 signatures from 8 percent of registered voters in...
President Trump announced Thursday that he is extending the Pentagon’s pause on striking Iranian energy infrastructure to April at the request of the Iranian government. “As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026,...
House Reps. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) and Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), co-sponsors of the Alzheimer's Screening and Prevention (ASAP) Act, said Thursday that proactively addressing Alzheimer's disease is "too expensive" of an issue for Congress to ignore. Appearing at The Hill's "Getting a Diagnosis ASAP: Progress in Early Alzheimer’s Detection" event on Thursday, the two congressmen discussed...
Concerns about energy costs are slightly up amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict against Iran, according to a new poll. In the Gallup poll released Thursday, 32 percent of respondents said various issues surrounding the economy are “the most important problem facing this country today,” with 15 percent labeling the “economy in general” as the most important...
