With the current partial shutdown and the record 43-day governmentwide shutdown last fall, most DHS employees have gone without pay for half the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
The U.S. Postal Service is looking to impose its first surcharge on packages to cover the rising cost of fuel as the conflict in the Middle East strains energy prices.
The Trump administration will now allow high-ethanol gasoline to be sold year-round as the White House seeks to relieve concerns and ease energy costs for consumers over rising gas prices amid the Iran war.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that the Trump administration doesn't plan to seek congressional authorization for the war in Iran, saying the move was "unnecessary" because the conflict has been ongoing for nearly a month.
Social Security has long been known as the third rail of politics, given that every attempt to fix the program over the past 30 years has proven politically toxic -- but a valiant group of senators is plowing ahead anyway
President Trump on Wednesday called on Congress to pass an 18-month extension of a federal surveillance law without changes, saying the military needs it more than ever due to the war with Iran.
A federal appeals court said Wednesday that the Trump administration is likely on solid legal ground with its new interpretation allowing mandatory detention of illegal immigrants as they await their deportation hearings.
Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s line that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Of course, what was an expression of optimism for the moral reformer King was more in the nature of a victory spike of the football for a […]
Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman was murdered last week by an illegal immigrant. That’s an uncontroversial statement on a controversial killing — or is it? The Loyola Phoenix felt the need to apologize for referring to the alleged killer as an “illegal immigrant” in their coverage. The school paper explained the change by declaring that […]
China is preparing for war. The evidence is abundant, from building underground hospitals to hoarding grain and fuel, hardening air bases in the Pacific, and constructing a military command center ten times larger than the Pentagon. For years, Beijing has been engaged in the largest military buildup in modern history. The Chinese Communist Party is […]
You’ve heard of the proposed “baby bonus,” in which Uncle Sam cuts a check to new parents upon the birth of their child. You’ve heard of the “Trump Accounts,” in which the Treasury puts $1,000 into a tax-preferred savings account for each American child born. PAYING PARENTS TO HAVE BABIES Both ideas have their supporters […]
One of the 22 men vying for reality star Taylor Frankie Paul's heart on the now-cancelled season of ABC's "The Bachelorette" was the driver in a 2014 crash that left former Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) paralyzed. Brad Ledford, 29, was set to appear in the franchise's 22nd season, which ABC shelved last week following domestic...
