House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Thursday introduced legislation that would require congressional approval of any act passed by the D.C. Council that would impose or increase a tax or fee.
In the weeks after Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, the people Trump appointed to run the Department of Justice, cybersecurity agencies and intelligence departments all said the same thing - the election was fair, legitimate and free of major fraud or foreign interference.
President Donald Trump is set to address the nation on Thursday night on topics he said will include elections and voting machines, suggesting he is likely to revisit some of the unproven claims he has previously made about Republican losses, particularly his own in 2020.
With confirmed detections of New World screwworm in Texas and New Mexico, the pest has returned. Largely due to the Biden administration’s open border policy and lack of attention to the potential issue, the screwworm threat has reached American soil. For months, we watched screwworm steadily advance through Mexico. During that time, I repeatedly warned […]
Crypto legislation like the CLARITY Act is being rammed through Congress, but is this really a policy change that the American people are demanding? Just 18% of respondents to a recent Politico poll said they want lawmakers to prioritize establishing rules for the cryptocurrency market. It’s not a grassroots mandate or priority, and you don’t […]
The Constitution does not contain an explicit, general right to privacy. Instead, many of the privacy protections people enjoy have been inferred from several constitutional provisions, most notably the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. I would ask you, dear reader, how do you feel about that? There is no blanket rule in […]
For years, policymakers have rightly focused on bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to American soil. Now, with hundreds of billions of dollars committed to domestic chip production, the next challenge has come sharply into focus: ensuring the United States has the skilled workforce needed to turn historic investments into lasting economic leadership. A newly released National […]
Artificial intelligence and the data centers that power it have rapidly become one of the defining policy debates in Texas and America going into the midterm elections. Earlier this month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) called for prohibiting AI data centers in rural neighborhoods, reflecting just how quickly the issue has moved from industry circles […]
A local district attorney in Texas is disputing an FBI assessment that 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's vehicle contained drugs before he was fatally shot by a federal officer in Houston last week. “Based on the information we have regarding who Mr. Salgado was, and just eyeballing the evidence as it was collected yesterday, we don’t...
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) is leading progressive Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic primary race for Sen. Gary Peters’s (D-Mich.) seat by about 7 points, according to a new poll. In the Detroit News/WDIV-TV poll, 41.4 percent of respondents said they would “definitely” or “probably” back El-Sayed, while 48.2 percent of respondents said the same of...
Iranian officials have asked Yemen's Houthis to block the Red Sea if the U.S. carries out strikes on Tehran's energy sites, according to Reuters. Two senior Iranian sources and a regional source familiar with the matter reportedly told the outlet that the Houthis had been informed of the request, which was discussed within the Islamic...
A former Federal Reserve senior adviser was sentenced to 38 months in federal prison for lying to investigators about secretly sharing sensitive central bank information with Chinese spies, according to the Justice Department. John Harold Rogers, 64, was arrested last year on charges that included conspiracy to commit economic espionage after federal prosecutors accused him...
