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SCOOP: Democratic Virginia Gov Spanberger’s Republican cousin aims to flip key House seat red

Republican Jenny Rae Le Roux, cousin of Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger, launches congressional campaign in competitive Orange County, California, U.S. House district, in bid to flip blue seat.

US destroys aging Iranian warplanes, video shows

During the war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, U.S. Central Command released video footage of strikes against aircraft that were sitting on the ground.

Powell’s behind-the-scenes move after Trump’s DOJ opened its criminal probe

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made 13 calls to lawmakers after the Justice Department opened a criminal probe into his congressional testimony about the Fed's renovations.

A Different Energiewende for the EU?

In 1990, about 30 percent of the EU’s electricity was generated by nuclear power,...

The Senate Housing Bill Mess

By preventing large investors from building homes, a bipartisan housing bill will do more...

Tesla falls behind China’s BYD as top EV maker after second year of declining sales

China's BYD overtook Elon Musk’s Tesla as the world’s leading electric vehicle (EV) seller in 2025, as Tesla faced declining sales for a second year in a row. BYD said Thursday that it sold about 2.26 million EVs in 2025, up nearly 28 percent from the year before. In a release Friday, Tesla said it delivered about 1.64 million EVs last year, down around 9 percent from 2024. Musk’s EV firm also saw a...

New year, new Epstein transparency law, and Trump is already breaking it

Many of us have spent the last two weeks largely checked out and concentrating on happier things than the intimate details of Jeffrey Epstein’s private life. Sadly, that’s all about to change. Come Monday, it’s going to be all Epstein all the time. That’s because the Department of Justice has made a complete hash of...

Zelensky taps military spymaster to replace powerful chief of staff

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday selected Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine's intelligence agency, to serve as his chief of staff as negotiations continue to end Russia’s war against the eastern European country. Zelensky wrote on the social platform X that Ukraine “needs greater focus on security issues, the development of the Defense and...

Reckless breaches of contract will not make America great

The Trump administration has violated the fundamental business principle of honoring legally binding contracts, which will cost both the Treasury and the people dearly and create obstacles to future governmental deal-making.

DC pipe bomb suspect to remain locked up ahead of trial, judge rules

The man accused of planting pipe bombs outside of the Democratic and Republican national committee offices on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot will remain locked up while awaiting trial, a federal magistrate judge ruled. Judge Matthew Sharbaugh wrote in an order Friday that Brian Cole Jr.’s past alleged conduct demonstrates a “startling and significant capacity for dangerousness,” but acknowledged the...

Massie: Trump’s Iran threat about oil not free speech

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Friday criticized President Trump’s threat to intervene as Iran cracks down on anti-government protests, arguing that the move would be more about oil than free speech concerns. The president vowed on Truth Social that the U.S. will “rescue” protesters if the Iranian regime takes violent action against them as demonstrations...

Musk’s AI chatbot Grok apologizes after generating sexualized image of young girls

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologized this week after generating and sharing a sexualized image of two young girls, calling it a “failure in safeguards.” “I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an AI image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user's prompt,” the...

How foreign policy realists lost touch with reality on Russia

Russia's aggression in Ukraine is being met with a double standard by some scholars, who suggest that the West is to blame and that restraint should be demanded of the victim, rather than recognizing Russia's actions as a threat to the security architecture that has maintained peace for 70 years.

Trump: Construction of DC’s new arch to start in early 2026

President Trump revealed in an interview this week that the construction of the Triumphal Arch in Washington, D.C., is set to begin soon.  “It hasn’t started yet. It starts sometime in the next two months. It’ll be great. Everyone loves it,” Trump said in an interview with Politico that was published Wednesday. “They love the...

The American empire has entered its final act

Donald Trump promised to restore America, but his presidency revealed the country's deep-rooted issues of debt, declining soft power, and social fragmentation, which cannot be reversed by rhetoric alone.

Adams responds to Andy Cohen criticism: ‘Another sloppy drunken rant’

Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams slammed Andy Cohen after the Bravo host criticized his “chaotic” tenure in city hall. “Watching the final moments of Mayor Adams’s chaotic, horrible … I just want to say, he got his pardons … No, I’m just saying. Great, you got your pardons. Go off into the sunset....

DoorDash bans driver over alleged AI delivery scam: ‘Zero tolerance for fraud’

A delivery driver for DoorDash has been ousted from the platform after allegedly attempting to trick a customer into thinking their order had been delivered to their door with an AI-generated image.

Trump shops for marble for White House ballroom

President Trump shopped for marble and onyx Friday in Florida for the new White House ballroom. Trump visited Arc Stone & Tile in Lake Worth, Fla., in Palm Beach County, a short drive from his Mar-a-Lago resort. “President Trump is purchasing marble and onyx, at his own expense, for the White House Ballroom,” a White House...

Microsoft wants to resurrect Three Mile Island. It will never happen.

I fear Three Mile Island may not be able to turn the lights on at a Microsoft data center if it can’t turn its own lights on first.

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