Thousands of demonstrators gathered in parts of South Africa to rally against illegal immigration on Tuesday in the biggest migration-related protests since anti-migrant violence broke out in the country in 2008.
President Vladimir Putin has signaled Russia’s disinterest in new peace negotiations with Ukraine. Instead, he is recharacterizing his war on Ukraine as an imperial restoration project. While he has always viewed Ukraine as a Russian limb, Putin’s rhetoric reflects his need to consolidate Russians amid a failing war effort. Putin’s latest comments came in an […]
As our republic marks its semiquincentennial, 2 in 5 people doubt it will endure as a single nation for another quarter millennium. The real threat is internal: can shared civic purpose, restraint on faction, and strategic clarity be recovered before the trajectory hardens? Recent polls also show that two-thirds of Democrats view socialism more favorably […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets, which arrives groggy after a day in the sun and a night staying up too late watching World Cup soccer. So just what is the Great American State Fair like? Well, in some ways, it is a perfect encapsulation of the nation in 2026: a raw display of […]
A band of conservative hardliners blocked a procedural rule that would have teed up debate and final votes on a slate of legislation Tuesday, dealing a huge blow to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as he aims to advance a packed agenda this week. The lower chamber voted 198-224 to reject the rule, with 14 Republicans...
Kevin Roberts, the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, called the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday upholding birthright citizenship a “tremendous betrayal of the public.” "The Justices in the majority have inflamed the all-out assault on our sovereignty and cheapened the sacred value of American citizenship," Roberts wrote on social platform X. "Universal birthright citizenship...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will allow Zyn nicotine pouches to be marketed as less harmful to human health than cigarettes, the agency said Tuesday. The agency allowed the company to market 10 flavors of Zyn products, which have been authorized for sale in the U.S. since January 2025. These are the first nicotine...
Justice Samuel Alito expressed discontent with the Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision to strike down the Trump administration’s restrictions on birthright citizenship, calling the ruling both “one of the most important decisions” in the court’s history and “a serious mistake" in a dissenting opinion. The high court ruled 6-3 that an executive order signed by President Trump on...
Bill Maher recently predicted that Democrats "couldn't help but win" in this year's midterm elections, but now he says a trio of "really crazy" far-left candidates winning their New York primaries could sink the party's chances come November. HBO's "Real Time" host said just last month that Democrats "cannot help but win" the midterms. "Even...
Whether you believe Trump or Carroll, one fact is undeniable: Carroll has spent years defending her credibility in court and in public. Multiple courts have now upheld the verdict in her favor. It’s time to stop revictimizing her.
White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought clashed with House Democrats on Tuesday over the administration’s spending cuts to foreign aid and grant approvals. The heated exchanges occurred during Vought’s testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee on federal spending, as lawmakers on Capitol Hill brace for another potential government shutdown this...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted that there was no deal with President Trump to end Moscow’s more than four-year-long war in Ukraine, after Kremlin officials insisted such an agreement was made between the two leaders last August during a summit in Alaska. “There were indeed no agreements reached in Anchorage,” Putin told a state...
A majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday ruled to uphold birthright citizenship, citing the 14th Amendment as clearly enshrining jus soli, Latin for "right of the soil." Chief Justice John Roberts and conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with their three liberal counterparts to strike down President Trump’s January executive order aiming to thwart...
