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Live updates: Justice Department hits Epstein files deadline

The Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday hits the deadline set by Congress to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed last month, orders DOJ to release all unclassified records and documents it has that are tied to the convicted sex offender. The files have consumed President Trump's MAGA base, and...

Julie Chrisley to star in new cooking show following prison release

Julie Chrisley says she wants the show to be authentic and wants to cook things that people can actually make.

Activists’ suppression of research on ‘gender-affirming’ care needs to stop

Suppressing scientific debate does not protect young people with gender dysphoria. Rather, it endangers them.

What the Founders would not celebrate at America’s 250th birthday

Let’s examine four of those “dangerous trends” our founders would not have celebrated.

DHS rips Dem-run county after illegal immigrant murderer released: ‘Blood on their hands’

An illegal immigrant from El Salvador with a lengthy criminal record was freed after Fairfax prosecutors dropped charges, then he allegedly killed a man in his Northern Virginia home the very next day.

Deadly strike on US troops tests Trump’s counter-ISIS plan — and his trust in Syria’s new leader

Deadly Syria attack kills two U.S. service members, intensifying pressure on Trump to reassess counter-ISIS strategy and partnership with Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Noem announces pause on immigrant visa lottery that allowed alleged Brown shooter to enter US

DHS Sec. Kristi Noem announced a pause on the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery, saying that the Brown University shooting perpetrator entered the country via the program in 2017 and was provided a green card.

Rubio unloads on ‘alarmists,’ touts State Dept disaster response after USAID closure

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended USAID closure, citing Hurricane Melissa response in Jamaica as proof critics were wrong about disaster aid.

Mossad man

Meir Dagan died in 2016, six years after his tenure as director of the Mossad, Israel’s vaunted intelligence agency, ended. But some of the fruits of his efforts were apparent this past summer, during the so-called Iran-Israel war, when the latter country carried out a series of daring and ultimately successful operations against the Iranian […]

The Trump Pencil Doctrine toward Christmas presents

Despite whatever misgivings I have about the current president, and I confess to having many, he’s right about pencils.  “How many pencils does a person need?” He famously asked recently. You only need “one or two,” he insisted. And when I read those words, I looked up from my newspaper to the three jars on […]

We must not go this way

In 2005, my Army unit searched an Afghan village for an enemy weapons cache. Our convoy consisted of a lead Humvee with a .50 caliber machine gun, a center civilian pickup, and my team’s trail Humvee, in which I manned the Mk 19 grenade-launching machine gun. It was a pretty average day. Then our convoy […]

False echoes of Weimar

Seven states seceded from the Union before James Buchanan left office in 1861, and within months of Lincoln’s inauguration, the forces of slavocracy directly threatened the capital with the Confederate victory at Bull Run. Whatever one thinks of American democracy in 2025, it is not under any more dire threat than the one contained in […]

NC Senate showdown escalates as Trump rallies behind Whatley to keep GOP seat

Trump campaigns in North Carolina for Michael Whatley's Senate bid as GOP works to keep the Republican seat from Roy Cooper in crucial 2026 midterm battle.

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

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