The Syrian government under President Ahmad al Sharaa has moved to reassert control over Kurdish-held territories in the country’s north and northeast. Kurds facing pressure both from Damascus and from their former Arab allies against ISIS were pushed out of Aleppo and Raqqa. The Syrian government subsequently took control of oil and gas fields in […]
“You see George, you really had a wonderful life, don’t you see what a mistake it would be to throw it all away?” These words still fresh in mind from the holiday classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” always hits hard, the angel Clarence pleading with George Bailey not to take his own life. The concern […]
The Houston Independent School District announced a large drop in student enrollment this year, as did most major cities, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Denver. While many blue states are just losing population entirely, even some red state cities, such as Houston, are losing children to surrounding suburbs. If cities are going […]
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order barring DHS and related agencies from "destroying or altering evidence" tied to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
President Trump on Wednesday ordered flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.), who died Tuesday at the age of 65. “In honor of the late, GREAT, Congressman Doug LaMalfa, a true American Patriot and fantastic Representative of Northern California, yesterday I ordered all American Flags throughout the United...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth got into a tense exchange with a CNN reporter on Wednesday over the cost of U.S. intervention in Venezuela, accusing the outlet of being “disingenuous” in its coverage of last week’s military operation. “The question’s never asked how much does it cost when they’re in the Mediterranean or the Red Sea...
The White House on Wednesday unveiled new dietary guidelines, with officials calling it the "most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history." The new guidelines were represented with an upside-down pyramid placing vegetables, fruits, proteins, dairy and healthy fats at the top and whole grains at the bottom. "The new guidelines recognize that whole,...
ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers are getting increasingly serious about making the Peach State one of the few in the nation with no state income tax. If wholly abolished, Georgia would join states such as Florida, Texas and Tennessee. For income earned in 2025, Georgia’s flat individual income tax rate is 5.19 percent. A special state Senate...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is scheduled to address the United Kingdom Parliament later this month in honor of America’s 250th birthday. Johnson will be the first Speaker of the House to address the foreign legislative body on Jan. 20 in London. “As our nation commemorates the 250th anniversary of American Independence, I am honored and...
Grammy Award-winning banjo player Béla Fleck has pulled out of an upcoming show at The Kennedy Center, joining a growing group of artists refusing to play the venue following President Trump’s takeover of the arts and culture institution. Fleck announced in a Tuesday Instagram post that he withdrew from his performance with the National Symphony...
Days after a daring military operation to seize its leader, President Trump's gambit for Venezuela's massive oil reserves is coming into focus. That, and the future of Venezuela, are raising questions on Capitol Hill. The U.S. on Wednesday also seized two Venezuela-linked oil tankers in the North Atlantic. One vessel was flying a Russian flag....
George Conway, the pundit and Trump critic now running as a Democrat for Congress, on Wednesday criticized the new administration, saying it is being run like a “mob operation.” “You would have thought that January 6 would have been the height of his criminality, but it's worse now he is running the United States government...
Aldrich Ames, the CIA agent who sold American secrets to the Soviets, has died at the age of 84. The former case officer died in custody on Monday, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate database. He had been serving out a life sentence without parole in a Maryland prison since 1994 after he...
President Trump touted US support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Wednesday amid concerns from member countries over his administration’s ambitions to acquire Greenland. “We will always be there for NATO, even if they won’t be there for us. The only Nation that China and Russia fear and respect is the DJT REBUILT U.S.A.,” Trump said in a TruthSocial post. In the...
Nicolás Maduro says he’s Venezuela’s president. The United States contests that. The disagreement could become central to his drug trafficking case, as the toppled leader seeks to persuade a U.S. judge that he’s immune from criminal prosecution as a sovereign head of state. At Maduro’s first court appearance this week, he sought from the start to stop the Justice Department’s prosecution in its tracks. “I am...
The discredited and harmful practice is on the rise in the U.S., despite clear evidence of the damage they cause and opposition from every major medical association.
