The BBC's chairman and other senior leaders will face tough questions on its editorial standards from lawmakers on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to file a billion-dollar lawsuit over a misleading edit of his speech.
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. The 2026 midterm elections are still months away, but that doesn’t […]
We are approaching a constitutional crisis, and it is primarily due to Democratic subterfuge. The Democrats are wantonly trying to sabotage the Trump administration. After releasing a video encouraging U.S. troops and intelligence officers to disobey “illegal orders” from President Donald Trump, one of the Democrats involved in the video, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), was […]
The Trump administration made the right call when it lifted tariffs on coffee, bananas, and other staples not produced in the United States. Those moves will ease pressure on household budgets at a time when grocery prices remain stubbornly high. If the goal is to lower costs for American families and strengthen the competitiveness of […]
Long, long ago and far, far away, America went to war and called its young men to battle. Millions answered, but nearly 60,000 never returned, hundreds of thousands suffered life-changing physical and mental injuries, and all were changed forever. One was former Rep. Stevan Pearce (R-NM), whom President Donald Trump nominated to serve as director […]
The Trump administration’s 28-point plan to end the Ukraine war, released last week, was too generous to Russia and too restrictive on Ukraine. After angry responses in Ukraine and in Congress, negotiators from both countries are fixing the plan. And they need to. The people of Ukraine are exhausted from almost four years of war […]
President Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Biden-era Clean Air Act regulations for two years. Trump on Friday issued a proclamation exempting facilities known as coke ovens from a rule limiting their releases of pollutants, such as mercury, formaldehyde, soot and dioxins. Coke ovens are chambers where coal is heated to produce coke, which is a fuel...
Offer Vince Shlomi, commonly known as the “ShamWow guy" after his series of towel infomercials, is running for a House seat in Texas with a pitch to “soak up the swamp,” according to primary filing information from the Texas GOP. Shlomi — a former fixture on American infomercials where he hawked “ShamWow” towels, which he touted...
Location, location, location. That’s what matters now on X, because Elon Musk has just rolled out a hugely important new feature, and it’s confirming what some of us have suspected was the case for some time now. It turns out that many of the openly racist and anti-Semitic accounts on X that claim to be...
Donald Trump defended Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying "things happen", which was seen as a line of decency being crossed.
A federal judge on Monday dismissed the cases against two of President Trump’s political adversaries after finding that the prosecutor Trump handpicked to pursue charges against them was unlawfully appointed. U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie said Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. attorney selected by Trump to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), was never eligible...
