Last week, the Israeli Air Force struck a guest house in Qatar. At the time, both Qatar-based and Turkey-based Hamas leadership were meeting to discuss their response to the latest ceasefire proposal and Israeli demands that Hamas release hostages they seized on Oct. 7, 2023, ironically during a ceasefire. Both Qatar and Turkey responded with […]
In January, in one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden issued a pardon to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The reason for the preemptive pardon, we were told, was a rumored “enemies list” said to include those who had crossed President Donald Trump politically. […]
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) late Sunday criticized President Trump's use of the word "scum" in his latest remarks criticizing left-wing groups and pushed back on the suggestion that political violence is a problem plaguing only one side. “No one party is immune from political violence,” Shapiro said in a post on the social platform...
Traditionally, Republicans are the first to argue that the federal government has no business meddling in energy markets. Trump has a different objective.
President Trump threatened to call a national emergency early Monday after Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said she expects local police to stop cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts now that the president’s 30-day emergency authority has expired. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump lashed out at Bowser, saying...
The Justice Department is reportedly considering a rule that would bar transgender people from possessing guns, on the theory that they are “mentally ill” and therefore “unstable.” The proposal, which has no obvious statutory basis, is so constitutionally dubious that it has provoked objections from every major gun rights group. The rationale for disarming transgender Americans nevertheless resembles...
If renewable energy is so great, why does California pay so much for its electricity? That's the question you need to ask — the one that exposes America's most inconvenient energy truth. Californians pay 35 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity, whereas Iowans, despite generating nearly twice as great a share of renewable energy, enjoy 14 cents. This paradox...
President Trump’s suggestions that the suspects in two high-profile killings face the death penalty add to his administration’s increasingly aggressive approach toward capital punishment. This week, Trump called for the 22-year-old accused of killing Charlie Kirk and the man charged in Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska’s stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail system to face execution. It...
Recent revelations about how artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are interacting with and affecting children are colliding with longstanding concerns about tech companies’ approach to safety and revitalizing efforts to pass kids’ online safety legislation. Chatbots from both Meta and OpenAI have come under scrutiny in the past few weeks, raising questions about how to protect...
Charlie Kirk's assassination at Utah Valley University highlights escalating political violence in America, according to former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan.
