1987—As a result of a Seventh Circuit ruling (in American Jewish Congress v. City of Chicago), the city of Chicago no longer displays a nativity scene…
Global oil prices are likely to remain under pressure in 2026. Supply is expected to exceed demand by as much as 4 million barrels a day. The Energy Information Administration expects inventories to continue building through 2026, reinforcing downward pressure on prices. West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, is forecast to average around $51 a barrel in 2026, down […]
The Chinese Communist Party wants to be the world’s sole superpower. To achieve its vision of global dominance, China is getting help from an unexpected source: the United States. A recently published U.S. congressional report highlights how Beijing is exploiting American resources and technology. The report, titled “Containment Breach,” provides an exhaustive overview of how the […]
Whether the apparent cultural turn of early 2025 will produce lasting change remains an open question. Despite early promises from universities to scale back diversity, equity, and inclusion and recommit to open inquiry, campus life still feels stultified and defensive. As the American Enterprise Institute’s Sam Abrams wrote in the Washington Examiner this week, “beneath […]
The House Homeland Security Committee is convening a hearing Wednesday morning on the rise in violence against law enforcement across the nation. The hearing comes less than a week after two National Guard members — both deployed to Washington amid President Trump's crackdown on crime — were shot near the White House. One of the...
Jared Isaacman, President Trump's pick to lead NASA, will testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Wednesday morning. Isaacman, a top ally of tech billionaire Elon Musk, was originally tapped for the role in May. Trump withdrew his nomination later that month, citing the need to review "past associations" and whether...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said Tuesday that his office has received a slew of “graphic” and “violent” threats since President Trump called him out for releasing a video telling service members that they can disobey "illegal orders." “We get more threats now in a single day than we would get in months,” Kelly, who was...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear an evangelist’s challenge to a Mississippi city’s protest ordinance he was previously convicted of violating. Gabriel Olivier, a Christian street preacher, has asked the justices to let his lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of an ordinance restricting demonstrations outside a Brandon, Miss., amphitheater move forward, claiming the measure runs afoul of his religious rights. But before he filed suit over the...
When Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared "speed to delivery" as the organizing principle for defense acquisition in a Nov. 7 speech, he identified inertia as the true adversary hampering America's military readiness. "If our warfighters die or our country loses because we took too long to get them what we needed, we have failed,"...
President Trump’s criminal prosecution in Georgia stemming from the 2020 election is officially dead, but it’s not the end of the story. Trump is preparing a bid to recover millions of dollars in attorney’s fees, leaving taxpayers on the hook for the failed case. Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead defense attorney in Georgia, has made clear...
Bad Bunny and Joe Rogan are at the top of the 2025 Spotify Wrapped list for most-streamed artist and podcaster, respectively. Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is Wrapped’s global top artist for the fourth time in six years, with more than 19.8 billion streams worldwide. He previously held the top...
Republican Matt Van Epps (R) won a special election on Tuesday in Tennessee in what was seen as a likely bellwether for next year’s midterms. Van Epps defeated state Rep. Aftyn Behn (D) for a Nashville-area House seat that went for President Trump by over 20 points last year. According to voting data on Tuesday night, he...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Tuesday it is placing a hold on all pending asylum applications and will pause all benefit requests by foreign nationals from 19 countries deemed “high risk” by the Trump administration. The policy memo instructs USCIS personnel to halt review of Forms I-589 — which covers applications for...
President Trump lashed out at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during his Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, calling the congresswoman “garbage” and saying he doesn’t want Somali immigrants in the country. In a conversation about immigration policy, the president unleashed a pointed attack on the progressive Minnesota congresswoman, who became a U.S. citizen 25 years ago after...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday sharply criticized Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for defending a second military strike on survivors of an initial attack on an alleged drug boat in September, after the secretary first dismissed the bombshell report as “fake news.” In remarks to reporters at the Capitol, the libertarian senator said Hegseth...
