Last week, President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to reduce America’s dependence on foreign mineral suppliers. The military must now map vulnerable supply chains and shift them toward domestic and allied sources. The next day, the Interior Department acknowledged a critical problem jeopardizing that strategy: Much of the country still lacks the data needed to […]
President Donald Trump has recently boosted tariffs against some Canadian exports to the U.S. to the 50% level, something unprecedented, even for him. He has done so, in part, as a reaction to smoke inundating the United States from Canadian forest fires. The New York Times, and who would know better on this matter, indeed, […]
During a meeting last week, the Food and Drug Administration’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee recommended that six previously restricted peptides be made available for pharmacy compounding. Peptides are short chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Compounding is the preparation of customized medications for individual patients rather than the dispensing of conventionally manufactured, […]
My grandmother had an expression for almost everything. Whenever I stood over the stove impatiently waiting for water to boil, she’d smile and say, “A watched pot never boils.” As a child, I thought she was talking about cooking. Years later, I realized she was talking about something much bigger. She understood that constant interference […]
Lindsey Graham’s last moments were emblematic of the way he lived: in service. On his final Friday, he stood in Kyiv beside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and announced that the White House had agreed to advance his Russia sanctions bill. The next night, an aortic dissection killed him at 71. After the funeral on Tuesday, […]
Southwest Border Patrol apprehensions in January 2026 were 79% lower than in the same month a year earlier, while total encounters at and between ports of entry along that border fell 84%. By April, Border Patrol was averaging 298 apprehensions per day. Those are substantial changes. They are also enforcement outputs rather than complete measures […]
A Rochester, Minnesota, jury spent nine hours this month deciding whether a woman who screamed a racial slur into a stranger’s phone camera had committed a crime. Shiloh Hendrix walked on the count tied to the boy she’d cursed at and was convicted on the count tied to the man who filmed her. She now […]
Every visitor entering the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Arlington, Virginia, encounters two powerful reminders of why the agency exists. The first is impossible to ignore. Stretching across a prominent wall is the “Faces of Fentanyl” memorial — thousands of photographs of smiling Americans, many of them teenagers and young adults. Beneath each […]
Last week, the Ohio Conference of Teamsters endorsed Sherrod Brown for the U.S. Senate in 2026. Not a surprise for anyone who has been paying attention to how union leadership actually operates. But for Republicans wondering if the organization represents something new in American labor politics, this endorsement of Brown says more than two years […]
Good policy, it is said, makes for good politics. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and his Senate GOP colleagues find themselves in a serendipitous moment, having before them a tremendous opportunity to serve the nation’s interests while simultaneously benefiting their party’s narrower political interests. What is the opportunity? Simple — stay in Washington until […]
President Trump on Thursday rolled out a new initiative dubbed “Freedom Haulers” aimed at replacing illegal illegal immigrant truck drivers with U.S. military veterans. The president made the announcement alongside Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling. The administration said the initiative is aimed at connecting veterans with employment opportunities while bolstering...
Fox News legal contributor Solomon Wisenberg said Thursday that the Senate would lose a legal battle over trying to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt. “It’s really not going to be a close question, he is going to — the Senate, if they try to have the Department of Justice hold him in contempt —...
Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) dropped out of the Wisconsin governor's race Thursday as he struggled to gain traction in the polls. "It's become very clear who our nominee is going to be," Barnes said in a video posted to the social media platform X, later adding, "We have to do everything we possibly...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not share with President Trump evidence that Russia is aiding Iran in its attacks against U.S. troops when the two met earlier this week, Ukraine’s envoy to the U.S. told reporters Thursday. Olga Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., said Ukraine has communicated that information “through other channels.” “This issue...
