Economists and local grocers warn NYC Mayor Mamdani's plan for city-owned supermarkets could crush small businesses while sticking taxpayers with the bill.
Traditionally, Republicans are the first to argue that the federal government has no business meddling in energy markets. Trump has a different objective.
President Trump threatened to call a national emergency early Monday after Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said she expects local police to stop cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts now that the president’s 30-day emergency authority has expired. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump lashed out at Bowser, saying...
The Justice Department is reportedly considering a rule that would bar transgender people from possessing guns, on the theory that they are “mentally ill” and therefore “unstable.” The proposal, which has no obvious statutory basis, is so constitutionally dubious that it has provoked objections from every major gun rights group. The rationale for disarming transgender Americans nevertheless resembles...
If renewable energy is so great, why does California pay so much for its electricity? That's the question you need to ask — the one that exposes America's most inconvenient energy truth. Californians pay 35 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity, whereas Iowans, despite generating nearly twice as great a share of renewable energy, enjoy 14 cents. This paradox...
President Trump’s suggestions that the suspects in two high-profile killings face the death penalty add to his administration’s increasingly aggressive approach toward capital punishment. This week, Trump called for the 22-year-old accused of killing Charlie Kirk and the man charged in Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska’s stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail system to face execution. It...
Recent revelations about how artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are interacting with and affecting children are colliding with longstanding concerns about tech companies’ approach to safety and revitalizing efforts to pass kids’ online safety legislation. Chatbots from both Meta and OpenAI have come under scrutiny in the past few weeks, raising questions about how to protect...
Television Academy Chairman Cris Abrego criticized Congress for voting to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), in a speech paying tribute to the organization at the Emmy Awards on Sunday evening. “For more than 50 years, CPB has been the backbone of American Public Media, bringing us everything from ‘Sesame Street’ to ‘Mr. Rogers...
President Trump on Sunday warned that left leaning groups will be investigated after the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, though he offered no details. “If you look at the problem, the problem is on the left. It’s not on the right, like some people like to share the right, the problem we have is...
Vice President Vance will host the "The Charlie Kirk Show" on Monday, sitting in for his friend who was fatally shot on Wednesday. He announced the gig Sunday night on social platform X, along with a photo of his desk, a microphone and a china cup and saucer. The show starts at noon EDT on...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Sunday formally endorsed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, in the general election this November. She announced her endorsement in a New York Times op-ed Sunday evening, stressing the importance of working together with the city’s mayor. “The question of who will be the...
President Trump said in a weekend interview that the White House ballroom will be a “little bigger” than initially planned. In a telephone interview Saturday with NBC News, Trump said the ballroom will have a capacity of 900 people, nearly 40 percent larger than the estimates provided in late July by the White House. “We’re...
The White House is continuing its push to remove Federal Reserve board of governors member Lisa Cook, filing a response in federal appeals court ahead of a 3 p.m. deadline on Sunday. The brief, filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, argues that it is within President Trump's discretion to...
