Thanks to the highest gas and electricity prices in the nation, California faces structural budget deficits that will bankrupt it if there is even a slight economic downturn. California’s fiscal frailty and energy dependence are no accident. They are a trap designed by the Chinese Communist Party, and the state’s Democrats have eagerly fallen into […]
Taxpayer watchdog OpenTheBooks flags $3.85 million in public funds linked to the SPLC amid a federal indictment and congressional scrutiny of the group.
Israeli airstrikes killed six people in Gaza on Friday, hours after Hamas partially agreed to a peace plan and after President Trump called on Israel to stop bombing the territory. One of the airstrikes killed four people in a house in Gaza City, NBC News reported. The other airstrikes killed two people in Khan Younis,...
Democratic candidate for Virginia’s attorney general, Jay Jones, is facing a firestorm after a series of 2022 text messages calling for the then-statehouse speaker to get "two bullets to the head" were leaked this week. “Three people, two bullets,” Jones said in a text to House Delegate Carrie Coyner (R) about former House Speaker Todd...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the Portland Police Department in Oregon, days after a conservative influencer was arrested amid a federal crime crackdown in the city. Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ's assistant attorney general for civil rights, "signed, sealed [and] delivered!" a letter to Portland police about the investigation on Friday, according to a...
Zohran Mamdani appears to have a plan for leveling the playing fields in education. Faced with a huge number of students with comparably dismal scores in math, English, and science, Mamdani is going to bulldoze higher-achieving programs. It is a pledge that only Soviet central planner would relish. By eliminating gifted and talented program in...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday blasted Russia for a "savage" drone strike on a railway station overnight that injured dozens of people. Zelensky said the strike took place in the Sumy region, just northeast of Kyiv, and emergency personnel were already on the scene. At least 30 injuries have been identified, he added. "Preliminary...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the NFL will not be “able to sleep at night” over its decision to pick Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny as the 2026 halftime performer. “Well, they suck, and we'll win, and God will bless us, and we'll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the...
President Trump’s administration was hit Friday with a federal lawsuit over its quest to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled international employees. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court Northern District of California, is led by a coalition of religious organizations, health care providers, unions, higher education professionals and...
The Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis Act would require federally regulated health plans to cover diagnostic and supplemental breast imaging — fully, with no out-of-pocket cost to patients.
Senate Republicans are pushing intensely to nab the five additional Democratic votes they need to unlock their bill to end the government shutdown. Republicans have shown little willingness to negotiate on the top Democratic priority — an extension of enhanced health care subsidies — as part of any funding deal, and instead are attempting to...
The anti-abortion movement's patience with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is wearing thin following the agency’s recent approval of a second generic version of mifepristone, one of two drugs taken for a medication abortion. President Trump repeatedly pledged during the campaign last year that he would leave abortion policy to the states, but...
