With the NFL preseason in full swing, I can’t help thinking about the incremental neurological damage that’s being inflicted on the players with each vicious tackle and violent collision. The damage — chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease better known as CTE — has often been decades in the making. Chris Nowinski, the former […]
History should be the Federal Reserve’s best teacher in September. It has already shown what happens when central banks answer an energy shock with higher interest rates: employment weakens, investment retreats, and policymakers eventually reverse course after families and businesses have absorbed unnecessary damage. The Fed can learn that lesson now, or make working Americans […]
King Abdullah II is in Beijing this week, his first visit to China since 2015. The instinct in Washington will be to treat that as a warning sign: a treaty ally’s king courting Xi Jinping, right as commentators reach for words like “hedge” and “pivot.” The honest answer to whether Washington should care is: a […]
Democrats are still licking their wounds from then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s defeat last November — and grappling with the implications of President Trump’s second term. For the moment, they are essentially a leaderless party. But that will change in due course. The 2028 presidential field looks wide open from this distance. But some prominent Democrats...
International students looking to study in the U.S. are getting very mixed signals from the Trump administration. Days after President Trump said it is "very important" to have Chinese students at American schools, prompting backlash from his MAGA base, his administration proposed a rule change capping a foreign student’s stay to four years to complete...
A growing number of Republican and Democratic women are gearing up to run for governor in the 2025 and 2026 elections as more women take the helm of state capitals across the country. History will be made in Virginia this November as Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) and former Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) vie to...
The Manhattan apartment building where The New York Times executive editor Joseph Kahn lives was vandalized early Friday in what appeared to be a display of criticism against the paper’s coverage of the war in Gaza. “Joe Kahn Lies Gaza Dies,” read a message in blank paint written in front of the entrance to the...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) would not rule out a 2028 run for president when asked repeatedly about his political future in a Sunday interview. “I'm not thinking about— that's too far away,” Pritzker said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” regarding the next Democratic candidate for president. “Let's talk about the 2026 election.” The...
President Trump says it "would not bother" him to see former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan handcuffed and arrested on live television. In an interview with the Daily Caller’s Reagan Reese released Sunday, Trump said he thinks arrests should be made over the Obama-era investigation into Russia’s involvement in the...
HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) — A child is safe thanks to the help of some Good Samaritans after what officials called a brief walk along the monorail tracks at Hersheypark. Nexstar's abc27 News viewers sent in photos and video of the child on the tracks and subsequent rescue. One photo showed the child walking along the...
President Trump defended saying he would allow 600,000 students from China into the U.S., despite backlash from some of his supporters who say the shift in his strict visa policies undermines his “America first” agenda. In an interview with The Daily Caller released Sunday, the president said China is paying America “a lot of money...
Two small planes collided midair on Sunday as they were attempting to land at an airport in Colorado, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Two people were on board each aircraft, according to the FAA. Their conditions were not immediately clear. The aircraft, a Cessna 172 and an Extra Flugzeugbau EA300, collided while trying...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), a possible 2028 presidential candidate, said he is not inclined to engage in a partisan redistricting push in his state ahead of the 2026 midterms. In a Sunday interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Pritzker warned against more states redrawing their maps in the middle of the decade, but...
As Democratic governors have become vocal critics of President Trump, one governor's response has been more muted. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is frequently mentioned as a possible contender for the 2028 presidential contest, has kept her focus on Michigan, a pivotal swing state Trump won in 2024. Whitmer has been quiet as other potential Democratic...
Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Sunday pushed back on what she called a “misconception” of federal funding losses if her department is wound down at the federal level the way the Trump administration wants. “I think the misconception is that federal funding will go away if the Department of Education goes back more to the...
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car crash on Saturday evening in New Hampshire, according to a statement from his security team. Giuliani’s vehicle was “struck from behind at high speed,” Michael Ragusa, head of Giuliani's security, said in an official news release. Giuliani, who previously served as President Trump's...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., is “performative,” despite a recent drop in the violent crime rate. In an interview that aired Sunday on ABC News’s “This Week,” Moore acknowledged there’s more work to do in Baltimore to bring down the crime rate. He said...
