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Generation after generation, the baseline for what's healthy and acceptable continually erodes. 

Democratic Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) said Sunday that if the Senate-backed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reached the House floor, it would pass. “What we know is that we have a bill that passed the Senate unanimously, a bipartisan piece of legislation that sits over at the House of Representatives. If...

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Sunday pushed for federal workers to be paid following recent tensions over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Congress. “We, by the way, I've got a bill that ends government shutdowns forever. You and I have talked about it before, this is a bipartisan bill, I believe...

Five Buc-ee's locations are expected to open this year, with even more on the way.

White House border czar Tom Homan expressed uncertainty Sunday at whether federal immigration officers will leave airports once Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees receive their delayed paychecks.  “We’ll see. It depends [on] how many TSA agents come back to work, how many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plans [on] coming back to...

What if Obama had taken a different tack?

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday said that God “does not listen to the prayers” of individuals who start wars, as the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran continues. “Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” the first American pope, citing a Bible...

Tax reform should make life easier, not more complicated.

The movement to ban SNAP recipients from buying soda, candy and energy drinks with their benefits is growing.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told NBC News on Saturday that Russian forces took satellite images of a U.S. air base in Saudi Arabia three times in the days before Iran attacked the site. During an interview in Doha, Qatar, Zelensky said he was “100 percent” confident that Russia was sharing that intelligence with Iran. On...

The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey will meet in Islamabad on Sunday, as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran hits the 30-day mark. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote Saturday on the social platform X that Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan arrived in Islamabad “along with Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia and...

Election Day is still seven months away. Plenty of time, alas, for people who intend to win no matter the cost to free and fair elections. 

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President Kennedy and a candidate for a New York congressional seat, on Sunday criticized the influx of billionaire and tech-industry money in his House race as an attempt to “buy an election.” “Look, I’m running against people who are backed by massive billionaires or massive AI companies, and they're...

During his briefing on the Iran war last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested that Americans take a knee and pray to Jesus for the success of U.S. forces in the Middle East. A few days later, he read out a sermon praying that “wicked souls” be “delivered to the eternal damnation” in the fight...