President Trump said Friday morning there is a "high degree of certainty" that the suspect in the Charlie Kirk shooting was in custody. "I think with a high degree of certainty we have him in custody," Trump said during an appearance on "Fox & Friends." The president cautioned he was "subject to be corrected," but...
Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason said during a recent interview that officials have “no idea” where Charlie Kirk's assassin is, after the conservative activist was shot and killed in Utah earlier this week. “I know you can’t say too much here but is it your understanding that this individual may be close...
We have all had too much practice in this still-young century in determining what should and should not be said in the wake of political violence. We’re getting too good at this. One of the most popular and least objectionable responses has been to say that Americans need to “lower the temperature” in our political...
The manhunt for the assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed in Utah on Wednesday, has stretched into a third day. Authorities on Thursday released a video showing the suspected shooter running across the roof of a building on the Utah Valley University campus, where Kirk was engaging in debate on...
Parents say a Virginia school district wrongly branded their sons as sexual harassers for complaining about a transgender peer in their locker room. Now they are suing in federal court.
Two new public opinion surveys in New York City's 2025 election for mayor indicate that democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is the clear frontrunner in the four candidate race
The cousin of a firefighter who died on 9/11 took a veiled jab at New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for his refusal to condemn the slogan "globalize the intifada."
I am always on the lookout for historians who can fashion well-worn stories from the past into sparkling new dramas filled with cliffhangers and near-catastrophes that keep me turning pages in taut expectation of an outcome decided centuries ago. Author Scott Ellsworth provides just that in Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the […]
Part of being a student — even an old one, like me — is spending time in the library. As I write this, I am sitting in the Firestone Library at Princeton University, looking up at a wall festooned with names of honored, illustrious alumni and super-rich donors, two categories that do not always, or […]
Godzilla has terrorized the Land of the Rising Sun for decades. Known as a kaiju (monster) in Japan, and King of the Monsters in the United States, Godzilla’s fearsome roar and atomic breath is a child’s nightmare come to life. It’s fought with and against other gigantic creatures. It’s struck fear in the hearts of […]
Until it closed last year, Monarch Novelties was the only souvenir store in Washington, D.C., that sold campaign memorabilia exclusive to the three presidential elections of the 1960s. The store was an oddity, a decaying building on 14th Street that, for more than 80 years, trafficked in eccentricities: not just Kennedy– and Nixon-era nostalgia but […]
