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BBQ lovers beware: Middle East conflict might disrupt your summer plans this year

Rising Middle East tensions are pushing up energy prices, driving beef and propane costs higher and making your summer barbecue more expensive this year.

Poll: Trump’s immigration message changed. Voters’ opinions have not.

The White House recalibrated its approach to immigration in the wake of the backlash...

Boston mayor denies funding LGBTQ migrant ‘wellness’ perks after program touts up to $500 benefits

OUTnewcomers, a queer advocacy group, offers LGBTQ immigrants in Boston up to $500 in wellness allowances for yoga, haircuts and other services.

Senate Democrats lost in space on attempt to kill education freedom tax credit 

They’re at it again. It’s like clockwork, with the big schooling loyalists. Any time there is movement for education freedom and school choice, they spring into action. We’ve seen this play out in state legislatures and through lawfare, and now, it’s happening on the national stage.  Recently, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and 31 other Senate […]

China’s aid to Iran exposes Axis of Autocracies

President Donald Trump has warned China not to supply Iran with new air defense systems. His admonition is recognition of the undeniable fact that an Axis of Autocracies seeks to overthrow the U.S.-led world order. China planned to supply air defense systems to Iran during the recent two-week ceasefire, according to U.S. intelligence reports. On […]

Kim sidesteps question on Schumer leadership future

Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) on Sunday did not directly endorse Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) leadership, but he noted that the congressional caucus is “united” amid negotiations on funding for the Department of Homeland Security. When host Jake Tapper asked Kim on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether he wanted Schumer to remain in...

Booker ‘not ruling out’ 2028 presidential bid

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday did not rule out running for president in 2028, the next chance Democrats will have to take the White House. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the outlet’s Kristen Welker asked Booker about his new wife and her comfort with him potentially making a...

Verdicts against Meta, YouTube spur new momentum for kids online safety push

Back-to-back verdicts against Meta and Google’s YouTube sent a warning shot to Big Tech this week, marking the first time juries found the social media platforms liable for their impact on kids and teens online.  As Congress remains at a stalemate over how to regulate platforms and protect children online, legal and technology experts say...

Americans ‘paying’ for Iran war with higher costs: Senate Democrat

Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) said Sunday that the American people are paying the price of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran on multiple fronts. “There's a reason why Donald Trump is not coming before the American people for approval for this war,” Kim told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It's because he...

America’s shifting baselines are a threat to democracy and governance

Generation after generation, the baseline for what's healthy and acceptable continually erodes. 

Kim calls on House to pass Senate-backed TSA funding bill

Democratic Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) said Sunday that if the Senate-backed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reached the House floor, it would pass. “What we know is that we have a bill that passed the Senate unanimously, a bipartisan piece of legislation that sits over at the House of Representatives. If...

Lankford: ‘We should never get to a moment we’re not paying federal workers’

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Sunday pushed for federal workers to be paid following recent tensions over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Congress. “We, by the way, I've got a bill that ends government shutdowns forever. You and I have talked about it before, this is a bipartisan bill, I believe...

Newest Buc-ee’s to open soon: Where are other locations planned?

Five Buc-ee's locations are expected to open this year, with even more on the way.

Homan says ‘we’ll see’ if ICE officers leave airports once TSA workers get paid

White House border czar Tom Homan expressed uncertainty Sunday at whether federal immigration officers will leave airports once Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees receive their delayed paychecks.  “We’ll see. It depends [on] how many TSA agents come back to work, how many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plans [on] coming back to...

How the return to the moon is different this time

What if Obama had taken a different tack?

Pope Leo: God ‘does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war’

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday said that God “does not listen to the prayers” of individuals who start wars, as the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran continues. “Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” the first American pope, citing a Bible...

In 2026, both parties are dodging the truth on taxes

Tax reform should make life easier, not more complicated.

4 more states will add restrictions on SNAP purchases in April

The movement to ban SNAP recipients from buying soda, candy and energy drinks with their benefits is growing.

Russia took satellite images of US base in Saudi Arabia before Iran strike: Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told NBC News on Saturday that Russian forces took satellite images of a U.S. air base in Saudi Arabia three times in the days before Iran attacked the site. During an interview in Doha, Qatar, Zelensky said he was “100 percent” confident that Russia was sharing that intelligence with Iran. On...

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