A federal judge who halted construction of President Donald Trump's $400 million White House ballroom clarified on Thursday that the administration can proceed with below-ground construction of a bunker and other "national security facilities" at the site.
Republican leaders across the U.S. are encouraging chapters of the conservative political group Turning Point USA in all public high schools in the wake last year's assassination of co-founder Charlie Kirk, an effort they describe as countering the oppression of conservative voices in education.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday challenged the believability of a House Democrat who accused him and the Trump administration of being "soft on fraud."
Congressional Republicans have sent President Donald Trump a resolution that would lift a federal ban on mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, hoping to clear the way for a South American company to extract precious metals from the region's pristine forests, lakes and bogs.
President Trump said Thursday that leaders in Israel and Lebanon agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, a major development that could accelerate peace talks between the U.S. and Iran.
To have a chance at joining Delta Force, the U.S. military’s most elite special operations unit, tryouts must first complete approximately three weeks of increasingly arduous marches while carrying increasing weight loads. This test phase of the selection course ends with a roughly 40-mile march known in the military as “The Long Walk.” Few are […]
President Donald Trump said last month that the war in Iran would be over “within two weeks … maybe three.” Yet, with the regime still intact and unwilling to give up nuclear enrichment, it seems things are just getting started. The Trump administration’s Iran war timeline feels a lot like the COVID-19 lockdown timeline. “Two […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. April 16, 1776 Tensions are high. Gen. George Washington is […]
Parenting today can feel like a never-ending exercise in risk management. We worry about what our kids eat, the air they breathe, and the schools they attend. Yet one of the most important questions rarely makes it into everyday conversation: Where do our children’s medications come from, and how confident are we in how they’re […]
One might never know it by the rhetoric of Pope Leo XIV, but the Islamic theocracy that rules over Iran is a brutal regime. The country is regularly linked to terrorist paramilitary organizations wreaking havoc and causing enormous amounts of violence, destruction, and suffering to innocent people throughout the Middle East. Despite such horrific acts, […]
There is a temptation, as the United States marks its semiquincentennial, to imagine history repeating itself with comforting symmetry. A British monarch will cross the Atlantic. Crowds will gather. The familiar language of kinship — “our cousins,” “the mother country,” “the special relationship” — will be dusted off once again. It is an appealing tableau. […]
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) have proposed a new tax on property owners who have second homes in New York City worth more than $5 million, in an effort to narrow the city's budget deficit by targeting the ultrawealthy. The “pied-à-terre tax” would be an annual...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday repeated an air rescue group's prayer, which borrows from a scene in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction." During a Pentagon service, Hegseth said the prayer — called CSAR 25:17, an apparent reference to Ezekiel 25:17 in the Bible — was recited during a mission to recover the pilot of a...
