The European Union on Thursday said it would drastically reduce asylum claims from seven nations in Africa, the Middle East and Asia by considering them safe countries of origin, prompting widespread outrage from human rights groups on International Migrants' Day.
President Trump has added descriptive plaques below the portraits on the White House's Presidential Walk of Fame, and some take jabs at his forerunners.
President Trump has created Freedom 250 to help organize events for the yearlong celebration of the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
One of my favorite possessions is a 50th anniversary copy of George Orwell’s 1945 novella, Animal Farm, with illustrations by Gonzo artist Ralph Steadman, whose chaotic, ink-splattered satirical style only enhances the masterpiece. I was thinking of this book as I watched the first trailer of the new animated adaptation of Animal Farm, directed by Andy Serkis and distributed by the […]
Congressional Democrats have portrayed themselves as arbiters of truth, defenders of morality, paragons of virtue, and every other benign assertion one could fathom in U.S. politics. They regularly decry oppression, suppression, rights violations, and the weaponization of the justice system, among other hyperbole, while remaining conspicuously silent when it involves colleagues or infractions committed by […]
A new report from the Society for Family Planning suggests that there are now somewhere between 130,000 and 150,000 abortions per year in states that have enacted heartbeat protections, or further protections, for the unborn. Many pro-life states are apparently on track to have more abortions within their borders each year than they did under Roe v. Wade. To be […]
With the possible exception of John Hughes, it is difficult to think of a filmmaker who so thoroughly defined the texture, tone, and emotional vocabulary of the 1980s, and whose influence extended so cleanly into the decades beyond, as Rob Reiner. His tragic death this week, alongside his wife, marks not just the loss of […]
Sheriffs live with the real-world consequences of decisions made in Washington every day. We welcomed the depth of the New York Times’s recent 4,000-word opus on the Biden administration’s border failures, appropriately titled, “How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration.” But let’s be honest: This reporting is years late. Sheriffs — Democrats, Republicans, […]
The Treasury Department on Thursday announced new sanctions targeting 29 vessels that the U.S. says are part of Iran’s “shadow fleet,” used to transport oil and petroleum products through deceptive shipping practices. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the 29 entities, along with their respective management firms, which “have transported hundreds of...
President Trump’s “warrior dividends” of $1,776 will use funding appropriated for military housing subsidies under the administration’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The money for the one-time checks intended for U.S. service members, which the president announced during his Wednesday night national address, will come from the $2.9 billion Congress approved this summer to...
President Trump trumpeted his term's success so far in a rapid and aggressive speech Wednesday night that also announced a "warrior dividend" for troops. The $1,776 bonus checks will be funded by tariff revenue, Trump said in his remarks, but senior officials have since said the funding will come out of a congressionally approved housing...
Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 68 more photos from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the Department of Justice's (DOJ) deadline to release all of its information on the disgraced financier on Dec. 19. Some photos show lines from the Vladimir Nabokov novel...
President Trump is signing an executive order Thursday from the Oval Office that will drop marijuana into a lower drug classification — but it will not equate to full legalization. The move continues efforts begun by the Biden administration, which started the process to make marijuana a Schedule III drug in 2024 but did not...
