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Subsidizing demand won’t solve affordability

President Donald Trump has dismissed the matter of “affordability” as a hoax, but voters consistently name the cost of living as the matter most likely to affect their votes next year, even as inflation has slowed since Trump took office. Unfortunately for those voters, the Democratic Party contrasts itself to Trump only with policies that […]

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Turkey says it arrested 115 suspected ISIS militants

Turkish police on Thursday said they arrested 115 ISIS suspects allegedly tied to plots related to Christmas and New Year celebrations. The Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office said the "ISIS Armed Terrorist Organization was planning to carry out actions targeting our country, especially non-Muslim individuals, within the scope of the upcoming Christmas and New Year events,” according...

Pope Leo offers first Christmas message 

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope, offered his first Christmas sermon as pontiff on Thursday, praying for peace from wars and freedom from economic distress. A crowd of 26,000 gathered to hear the words of the pontiff during the annual “Urbi et Orbi” address from the Central Loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. “If he...

Trump announces U.S. strikes on Islamists in Nigeria

The U.S. struck at Islamic State targets in Nigeria on Christmas Day, President Trump posted on social media Thursday evening.

Trump wishes ‘Merry Christmas to all, including the radical left scum’

President Trump knocked his political opponents as “Radical Left Scum” in a Christmas message in which he boasted about his administration’s accomplishments during the first year of his second term. “Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly,” Trump wrote Wednesday...

Faith, science and doctors’ struggle with end of life care

If you believe in medical miracles, it can keep you as a physician from giving up too soon.

Trump wades into House races, putting endorsement force to the test

President Trump is putting his endorsement strength to the test ahead next year’s midterms as he wades into a number of Republican House primaries. Last week, the president rolled out his first endorsements in non-incumbent races, backing candidates supported by the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC).  While Trump’s backing will likely hold sway in any...

Trump says he made sure ‘a bad Santa’ is not ‘infiltrating’ the US in Christmas call

President Trump said on Wednesday that he wants to make sure that “a bad Santa” is not “infiltrating” the United States, as he fielded calls from children who were calling North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to track Santa Claus’s movements on Christmas Eve. Trump helped kick off the NORAD Santa-tracking tradition, now in its...

Tina Peters, at center of Trump-Colorado fight, asks court for release

Tina Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who has been at the center of a political fight between President Trump and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, is asking a state appeals court to recognize the president’s pardon of her state convictions. Lawyers for Peters, who served as a clerk in Mesa County, filed a motion Tuesday...

America must see China’s war on religion for what it is

In defending the right to believe, we defend the very idea of freedom itself. 

Senate Dems urge Trump to reverse ‘unprecedented’ ambassador recall

Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are urging President Trump to reverse the “unprecedented” decision to recall nearly 30 top career diplomats, leaving more than half of all U.S. ambassador posts vacant. In a letter to the president on Wednesday, the senators warned that recalling the chiefs of mission in at least 29 countries...

Trump Energy Department scuttles planned closures of 2 Indiana coal plants

The Trump administration on Wednesday issued emergency orders to keep two set-to-be-shuttered coal plants in Indiana running through the end of the year, providing a lifeline to a favored industry while arguing it would ensure people with secure and affordable electricity. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced the orders directing the Northern Indiana Public Service Company...

The US built the Quad, but now it’s letting it fail

The Quad — the U.S., Japan, India and Australia — was conceived as a strategic coalition to uphold a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” a concept articulated by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2016 and later elevated to a centerpiece of U.S. strategy. At stake was nothing less than preserving a rules-based order...

White House to reveal ballroom project details with planning group in January

The White House will present plans for its ballroom construction at the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) meeting next month. The “East Wing Modernization Project” was added to the agenda of the Jan. 8 NCPC meeting, during which administration officials will give an “information presentation” on its controversial project. The presentation is often seen as...

BRICS and forced labor: How Russia is exploiting an international economic bloc in its crusade against Ukraine

For some of the world’s poorest people, BRICS — originally Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — is becoming a Trojan horse for Moscow’s war machine.

Kennedy Center’s Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump renaming

The Kennedy Center’s annual Christmas Eve jazz concert was canceled Wednesday after its longtime host declined to perform in protest of the recent changes to the performing arts center's name. Chuck Redd, who’s hosted the holiday “Jazz Jams” since 2006, said he made the decision after seeing President Trump’s name added to the building, which...

Acting Texas comptroller asks if schools with ties to CAIR, China can be barred from school choice program

The Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program will allow eligible families to use $10,474 for their child's private school tuition and expenses for the 2025-26 school year, but the Comptroller of Public Accounts is asking the Attorney General to bar schools affiliated with CAIR or the Chinese government from receiving funds.

‘South Park’ writer Toby Morton owns Trump–Kennedy Center websites

Morton said once news broke he bought the domain names, he’s received "overwhelmingly positive" responses.

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