We already know this rule: You aren’t permitted to leave a museum without running into a gift shop. I also discovered late last week in Paris that you can’t walk out of the newly restored Notre-Dame cathedral without passing a large gift zone near the arrow that points to Sortie de secours. And you can’t […]
At first glance, Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden, by the English writer Hockley Clarke, is quite unsurprisingly a nice little book about blackbirds. Namely, two birds, father and son, whose relationship with Clarke began one bitter night in 1962. It was Europe’s coldest winter in 80 years, and, to give the bird a […]
The Army announced Wednesday that its Janus Program has selected five companies to build nuclear microreactors at five military installations, committing up to $2.2 billion to an effort that could eventually put more than 20 reactors across War Department facilities. It is the latest evidence that President Donald Trump’s revival of American nuclear power could […]
President Donald Trump's push to acquire Greenland added a new security dimension to Iceland's EU referendum, with 275,000 eligible voters weighing in.
Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday the truth about the reported mental health concerns among service members on board the USS Abraham Lincoln is likely “somewhere in the middle.” During an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Mullen said he had “great concern” about conditions on the...
Attorney General Todd Blanche joined two network shows on Sunday following his narrow Senate confirmation last week. Blanche appeared on Fox News’s “Fox News Sunday” and NBC News’s “Meet the Press," reiterating reiterated that the proposed "anti-weaponization" fund is dead after he sought to distance himself from the controversial fund earlier this week. On Fox...
SpaceMD’s use of Starfall represents a leap forward toward treatments for everything from cancer to Alzheimer’s disease being created in low Earth orbit.
Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday dismissed criticism over the Justice Department's (DOJ) recent opinion on executive privilege over communications between the president and "private advisors" outside of government, saying that it is not "any novel legal concept." "Fox News Sunday" host Shannon Bream played a clip to Blanche of Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) telling...
Dozens of Texas lawmakers earlier this week urged Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to put a stop to the Trump administration’s plans to build border barrier installations at Big Bend National Park. In a Thursday letter to Abbott, 44 state lawmakers from both parties asked the governor to “swiftly use every available avenue” to call on...
The authors argue that any future agreement regarding Iran's nuclear program must mandate real-time IAEA surveillance and the removal of spent fuel from the Bushehr reactor to address the significant threat posed by its two-ton plutonium stockpile.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated multiple provisions of a 2021 legally contested Texas election integrity law that, among other things, created an ID requirement for mail-in ballots and applications. A lower court blocked those changes in March.
President Trump on Saturday again urged senators to vote on a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, a measure some Republicans in the upper chamber oppose. “The Senate must vote on the NO MORE CHANGING THE CLOCKS ACT as soon as possible,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to the Sunshine Protection Act of...
It took only a few days for Europe's latest immigration crisis to threaten one of the European Union's core principles. After 72,000 migrants from Morocco entered Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa, Italy imposed temporary border restrictions against travelers from Spain. Spain promptly reciprocated, jeopardizing the freedom of movement that has been a cornerstone...
Speculation about a presidential run by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in 2028 is rising to its highest pitch yet — and some people are putting their money on it. AOC, as she is commonly known, now leads the field for the Democratic presidential nomination on the two best-known betting markets, Kalshi and Polymarket. Even if...
The last major midterm primary test for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is taking place Tuesday in Florida, after a loss in Wisconsin this past week dealt a blow to the far-left movement. DSA-backed Oliver Larkin is aiming to unseat Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) in the Democratic primary for the 25th Congressional District, which...
The Supreme Court’s emergency docket has flared up in the thick of the justices’ summer recess. President Trump is urging the justices to revive his mail ballot restrictions and allow White House ballroom construction to resume. It again puts the high court in the hot seat after its string of key rulings on other aspects of...
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) commander Adm. Brad Cooper visited the USS Abraham Lincoln Saturday after the ship had been docked in the Middle East for over 260 days since November. Centcom released a statement Saturday about the visit, stating Cooper, who oversees the war with Iran, visited the ship as part of a 10-day trip...
