Hypersonic weapons and long-range drones are straining the homeland defense assumptions that helped keep America safe after World War II. They have already shaped battlefields in Ukraine and Israel, and future variants will be designed to reach farther, fly lower, maneuver harder, and overwhelm legacy defenses. Meeting that threat will require two longtime rivals — […]
Senate leaders are weighing when and how to move forward with year-round national sales of E15 gasoline following House passage of the legislation earlier this year. Supporters say the measure would lower costs for consumers. The evidence is less clear. Before senators move forward, Americans deserve a closer look at whether those promised savings are […]
In John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces, set in early-1960s New Orleans, Ignatius J. Reilly is the ultimate self-aggrandizing dunce. Over-educated, unemployed, living rent-free off his mother, armed with a useless master’s degree and an endless supply of contempt for the modern world, he stages absurd crusades while contributing nothing. He rails against the […]
For the past year, the Food and Drug Administration has done the exact opposite of what it promised. Leaders pledged to accelerate innovation and speed access to treatments for rare diseases. That does not mean abandoning safety guardrails. It means applying those guardrails consistently and without unnecessary delay. Instead, the FDA broke written agreements, reversed […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday issued a new broadside in the U.S. fight with the International Criminal Court (ICC), announcing a diplomatic effort by the Trump administration to dismantle the global tribunal. Rubio issued the action call in an opinion article with the Wall Street Journal and a video message shared on social media. His announcement...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, seen as potential a 2028 presidential hopeful, said Sunday that there is a “carnival of corruption” in Washington, D.C. “Right now, what's at stake is nothing less than the American Dream. It is endangered. If you were born the year that my mother was born, at the end of World...
Technology leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded barbs on social media over the weekend after the SpaceX founder used Apple's new trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI to bash Altman over an alleged "scam." Musk on Saturday posted to X that Altman "takes scamming to a whole new level," nearly a day after Apple announced...
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) on Monday moved to dispel the allegation that three American service members were killed in Iranian strikes in Kuwait. "CLAIM: Iranian propaganda claimed today that three American service members were killed in Kuwait by strikes from Iran. FALSE," Centcom stated in a post on the social platform X. "TRUTH: There are...
The battle between those two generations is not only political, but centers around the very different life experiences younger voters have had from their older counterparts.
A second U.S. citizen was diagnosed with Ebola on Friday and subsequently transferred to Germany for treatment, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The individual, whose identity was not revealed, is a humanitarian worker and was admitted to Frankfurt University Hospital early on Monday. “As infections among response personnel are not unexpected in an...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, slammed Senate leaders Monday over the lack of ethics restrictions in a cryptocurrency regulation bill that is poised to hit the Senate floor in the coming weeks. Warren, a longtime crypto skeptic, raised concerns about President Trump’s recent financial disclosures, which showed he...
Trump recommended Darline Graham Nordone as interim senator for South Carolina, while Tim Scott pushes for a placeholder ahead of the special election.
