The ancient pagan world was full of human sacrifice. The most horrifying instance was child sacrifice. We got an inkling of this in this summer’s smash-hit The Odyssey, with the brief depiction of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter for favorable winds. One of the most important changes that occurred from the pagan to the monotheistic, Judeo-Christian […]
Republican politicians expressed outrage after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to laugh on camera during a memorial for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorizations for more medications that can prevent and treat infestations of the flesh-eating New World screwworm spreading along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Iran on Saturday rejected President Trump’s assertion that he could declare the Strait of Hormuz a “territory of the United States,” saying the opening and closure of the key waterway will remain up to Iran’s control. In a post on the social platform X, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said the U.S. has no...
Katie Miller’s podcast is emerging as a go-to platform for leading figures in President Trump’s administration as she targets an audience of Republican women, scoring news-making interviews with top cabinet officials and key members of the president's inner circle. Miller, the wife of top White House aide Stephen Miller and a Trump-supporting political operative who...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) decision to freeze her eggs and publicly document the process is stirring up mixed reviews from her conservative critics while receiving praise from many women for demystifying the procedure. Many conservatives have criticized Ocasio-Cortez for creating what they call the illusion that women can have it all, while promoting an expensive...
The BBC is seeking to subpoena three members of President Trump’s family as it builds its defense to his $10 billion defamation lawsuit. In a Friday court filing, attorneys for the BBC argued that Trump’s children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, as well as his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, “have personal knowledge and likely have...
The Justice Department described the Iranian missile threat incident that led President Trump to secretly switch planes last month as an “assassination attempt” in a new court filing on Friday. U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer mentioned the incident in an emergency appeal to Supreme Court asking it to overturn a lower court’s block on the...
Republican strategist Karl Rove on Friday criticized President Trump’s insistence that the U.S. economy is thriving despite rising prices amid the Iran war. Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Friday that the “economy was doing unbelievably from the standpoint of Wall Street." Rove told Fox News's Gillian Turner that the president should “start...
A bipartisan pair of senators launched an investigation this week into the gaming platform Roblox, citing concerns about explicit content and its alleged "connection to real world child abuse." Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) sent a letter Wednesday informing Roblox CEO David Baszucki that the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday became the latest elected Republican to declare he would not support Rep. Cory Mills's (R) reelection bid in Florida's 7th Congressional District. “I have not endorsed Cory Mills, and I do not support Cory Mills,” the Florida governor said when asked during a Friday press conference, captured by C-SPAN...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Amid reports of low morale, USS Abraham Lincoln returning home, Navy says Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao announced on Friday that the USS Abraham Lincoln is returning to the U.S. as the aircraft carrier’s long deployment...
