Law enforcement officers shot at a truck outside of a U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda, Calif., late Thursday night, as protests over the Trump administration's immigration agenda rage on. The incident followed a days-long demonstration near the base, which is expected to be used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB). The Coast Guard...
State Department slashes travel spending by nearly $100 million under Trump administration as part of broader budget-cutting efforts targeting overseas missions.
New York attorney general Letitia James pleads not guilty to federal bank fraud charges in Virginia court, facing allegations over 2020 home purchase loan.
President Trump says importing more Argentine beef will lower prices, but ranchers argue the real problem isn’t supply, it’s the corporate giants controlling America’s meat industry.
The Trump administration is urging Democrats to “stop siding with illegal aliens" after a Los Angeles activist rammed ICE agents in attempts to escape arrest, prompting agents to open fire.
For anyone in doubt, I can report that the White House is still standing. To be precise, the original mansion, completed in 1800, the final year of John Adams’s presidency, remains where it always has been (with its interior installed by President Harry Truman between 1949 and 1951). The East Wing added by President Theodore […]
On Oct. 14, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether the use of race to gerrymander voting districts, pursuant to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, is constitutional. The cases, which originated in Louisiana, returned to the court after arguments in March and additional briefing over its summer recess. As widely reported, the court appears likely to […]
America’s economic rebound despite tariffs during the second quarter is not a mystery — it was all dependent on artificial intelligence and data center construction. Real GDP grew at a brisk 3.8% annualized in Q2 2025 and is expected to grow at least 2.5% in Q3 (almost 4% again according to Atlanta’s GDP Now), but the […]
“Only monsters play God.” This is the tagline of Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The film, which stars Oscar Isaac as the titular egotistical scientist and Jacob Elordi as the creature he creates, was released to limited theaters on Oct. 17 and will hit Netflix on Nov. 7. The tagline signals […]
My daughter is a teenager, so naturally she likes Starbucks (“Starbys,” if you speak Generation Z). We go out for “coffee” a lot, partly because it’s a convenient way for fathers to get their 14-year-old daughters to spend time with them. I put “coffee” in quotes because Bret usually orders some lemonade concoction, while I stick with […]
The Democrats’ government shutdown ransom, the permanent extension of former President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 health insurance bonus subsidies, was always farcically untethered to the party’s core complaint about President Donald Trump. If Trump is acting like a dictator in unprecedented ways that undermine the future of democracy, how does shoveling hundreds of billions of taxpayer […]
