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California’s schools fail most kids year after year — the real definition of insanity

California’s school results continue to be a national disgrace. There is no reason for the wealthiest state in the country, and the center of the high-tech industry, to be...

State sends wildfire aid to low-income housing while fire victims fight for their homes

California officials used federal funding meant to help wildfire victims rebuild, and spent it...

I went to a glam gala in LA and cried all night — here’s why

I entered the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s Greater LA gala expecting the usual: schmoozing, some hors...

California’s billionaire tax has a French connection –– and riots across the Atlantic offer a grim warning

If Californians want to see the results of socialist policies like the “billionaire tax,”...

4 GOP senators join letter demanding Pentagon inspector general investigation of Ukraine’s Starlink outage

Four Republican senators have signed on to a letter to the Defense Department’s inspector general expressing “grave concern” over Ukraine’s sudden loss of access to intelligence-sharing and high-speed Starlink data, which it needs to intercept Russian drones, and asked him to investigate whether senior Defense officials played a role. “We urgently request an Inspector General...

Musk bankrolls PAC spending big on Paxton in Texas 

Tech mogul Elon Musk poured $158 million into a key super PAC backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's (R) Senate run as part of his push to keep Republican majorities in Congress. Musk was the single donor to Texas PAC — a political action committee backing Paxton's run — in the third quarter, according to...

Police investigating shooting at Oregon elementary school

A shooter is dead and two people have been hospitalized after reports of an active shooter incident at a Bend, Ore., elementary school, the Bend Police Department said Thursday. Police have confirmed multiple victims, including children. Their conditions are not known at this time. The incident was reported at Silver Rail Elementary School. Bend Police...

Trump shuts down Pentagon plan for public execution: 5 takeaways

President Trump put an abrupt end on Thursday to questions about whether the Pentagon would really livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. In a Truth Social post, he said the public execution could serve as a deterrent but didn’t want to subject “good and well-meaning”...

CNN legal analyst: Biden-era inquiry into Omar hurts her case against Trump

CNN anchor Jake Tapper questioned whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) should have come forward about any potential issues with her immigration status during the Biden administration rather than face a criminal investigation under President Trump. Federal agents raided Omar's Washington, D.C., home with a court-authorized search warrant Monday as part of a criminal investigation into...

9 former FBI agents sue, saying they were wrongly fired over Mar-a-Lago case

Nine former FBI agents sued the Justice Department on Thursday, alleging they were wrongly fired solely because of their work investigating President Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. Attorneys for the agents write that their “fate was sealed by virtue of simply having worked on an investigation into Trump’s wrongdoing,” noting Attorney General Todd Blanche...

Mortgage rates hit the brakes

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Mortgage rates hold steady after monthslong rise Mortgage rates held steady this week, a reprieve after months of increases, according to new data from Freddie Mac. © Ted Shaffrey, Associated Press file The average 30-year fixed...

Mace, Subramanyam vow to keep pushing Epstein investigation under either party

Mace said she filed a bill Monday that would cover legal fees for survivors who win defamation cases brought against them.

Talarico on ‘God is nonbinary’ remark: ‘I was being provocative’

Texas Democratic Senate Candidate James Talarico said his remark on the campaign trail that "God is nonbinary" was an attempt at "being provocative." Talarico responded to a question during a town hall hosted by CNN and Jubilee Media. He was pressed about the comment by Sarah Gardner, a voter from his hometown of Round Rock,...

Iran persecuted me for my faith — the US offered me the American dream

I do not have a solution to Iran's politics. But I know what it means to be forgotten by the world while your government decides your destiny.

GOP shrinks ambition despite bashing polls

In today's issue: ▪ Republican actions vs words ▪ Final pre-election inflation report shows spike ▪ Katie Zacharia under fire ▪ Ukraine cut off from Starlink Top Republican officials are downplaying the polls showing their party trailing Democrats across the midterm board even as the GOP is pulling money from certain key states and districts....

Putin is once again playing Trump for a fool

Xerxes only built one bridge leading to his defeat. Trump keeps building new bridges to Russia after every negotiating defeat at Putin's hands.

Palatine man charged in alleged mass shooting plot targeting Hindu place of worship

A 19-year-old Palatine man was arrested Sunday after police said he allegedly planned a mass shooting targeting a suburban Hindu place of worship.

Person of interest identified in connection with sexual assault near University of Chicago campus

A person of interest has been identified in connection with a sexual assault that was reported early Sunday morning at a fraternity house near the University of Chicago campus, the school announced Tuesday in a community alert.

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