NEW KENSINGTON, Pennsylvania — Thomas Tull is walking along the old wooden brick floor of what began as the Pittsburgh Reduction Company and later became Alcoa, a place where researchers and manufacturers created a hub of foundational aluminum manufacturing for nearly a century. In truth, this was the center of innovation and manufacturing in America. […]
The Department of Justice this month announced that IBM has agreed to pay the federal government more than $17 million to resolve allegations that the company engaged in illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion practices while performing billions of dollars in government contracts. The settlement marks the first resolution under the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Fraud […]
If Iraq looks broken from the outside, it’s because we’re still using the wrong word. Iraq isn’t failing. It’s being captured. For years, Washington has described Iraq’s political paralysis as dysfunction, another messy chapter in a young democracy. But that framing ignores what Iraqis themselves see every day: a system that no longer answers to […]
Many have claimed that liberals and Democrats are not grounded in reality. Others have opined that leftists are delusional fanatics who are unhinged in their ideological beliefs. Such presumptions could be reinforced by the multiple studies that show a higher prevalence of mental health deficiencies among liberals, Democrats, and others on the Left, compared to […]
Imagine if every final judgment of a court in the United States could be undone simply by appeal to be a more friendly court in a foreign nation. Thankfully, the legal order in the civilized world has evolved to prevent this kind of litigation adventurism. Yet, Greenpeace is asking a Dutch court to upend that […]
Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor and the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, may proceed with her lawsuit alleging the Trump administration fired her for political reasons, a judge ruled Tuesday. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman came over the Justice Department's objection, and found that Maurene Comey's lawsuit belongs in federal...
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration's policy of detaining almost all those it is seeking to deport, determining they must be given the chance to seek bond amid their pursuit to remain in the country. Figures of those being held in detention have swollen to historic levels under the Trump administration, with the...
Allies of President Trump are upset over a post by former President Obama about the motives of the suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. On Sunday, Obama posted on the social media platform X that “although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White...
More than 1,000 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers have departed amid the ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the department said this week. DHS wrote Monday on the social platform X that more than 1,000 TSA officers “have been forced to leave the force” since the shutdown began in mid-February. “Ahead of...
