When I was in fifth grade, I aced the Presidential Fitness Test. Not because I was some athletic prodigy — I was a large child who’d later become a big man — but because we had a pull-up bar at home. My parents had installed it in a doorway, and like my 5-year-old daughter today, […]
King of the Hill aired the final episode of its original run on Sept. 13, 2009, when then-President Barack Obama still enjoyed a double-digit net approval rating, the BlackBerry was still the premier smart device, and Donald Trump seemed to be fading permanently from public life as The Apprentice‘s schtick wore thin. At the risk […]
President Trump on Thursday evening nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Taibleson to serve as a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, making her the sixth federal appeals court nominee of his second term. "It is my Great Honor to nominate Rebecca Taibleson to serve as a Judge on the United States Court of...
President Trump said on Thursday that he would like to see foreign journalists granted access to the Gaza Strip by Israel. "I'd like to see that happen, sure," the president told reporters at the White House. "I would be very fine with journalists going. And it's a very dangerous position to be in, as you...
A Minnesota man accused of killing State House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, Vance Boelter, was indicted on Thursday by a grand jury on eight charges, including two counts of first-degree murder. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced that Boelter, who was also accused of injuring another Democratic Party state lawmaker and his...
The White House on Tuesday said that homeless people in the nation’s capital could be subject to fines and jail time as the administration cracks down on crime. “The homeless problem has ravaged the city,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters. “Homeless individuals will be given the option to leave their encampment, to...
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Arkansas can enforce its 2021 ban on gender-affirming care for minors, reversing a lower court decision that struck down the first-in-the-nation law as unconstitutional and following a June Supreme Court decision. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that a federal district court had erred in striking down Arkansas’s Save...
Ashley Biden, the daughter of former President Biden and former first lady Jill Biden, filed for divorce Monday from her husband, Dr. Howard Krein, after more than 13 years of marriage. Court documents show legal proceedings were filed against Krein in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. Moments after filing, Ashley Biden posted, “New life,...
The Texas Senate passed a GOP-friendly House map on Tuesday, putting it a step closer to final passage in the state Legislature. The upper chamber voted 19-2 to pass a new set of congressional lines that would give Republicans five pickup opportunities in the U.S. House ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, identical to the...
Environmental advocates are suing the Trump administration over what they described as a secretive plan to undermine climate science. In a new lawsuit filed Tuesday, the Environmental Defense Fund and Union of Concerned Scientists challenge a new federal report that claimed climate models contain “exaggerated projections of future warming” and that “CO2-induced warming might be less...
President Trump's sharp criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday is sending chills across Europe, where leaders are working to guard against the worst-case scenario: Trump aligning with Russian President Vladimir Putin to force a bad deal on Kyiv. Trump blew past a deadline last week to impose punishing sanctions on Russia and its...
Optimism among small businesses rose last month, with respondents reporting better business conditions, despite uncertainty around tariffs and inflation. The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) said on Tuesday that its Small Business Optimism Index went up 1.7 points in July to 100.3, just above the index’s long-term average of 98. The factors that contributed...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Russia had been stonewalling negotiations on the return of Ukraine children, thousands of whom have been forcibly transferred to Russia over the course of its invasion. “We cannot reach an agreement with them on the return of the children,” Zelensky told reporters in response to a question from...
A little over a tenth of Americans found Sydney Sweeney’s recent American Eagle ad campaign offensive, according to a new poll. When asked in the Economist/YouGov poll about the ad campaign, 12 percent said they considered it offensive, while 39 percent called it clever. Forty percent said it was neither, and 8 percent were unsure....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday the country would not cede portions of the Donbas region to Russia amid ceasefire talks. “We will never leave the Donbas" Zelensky told reporters Tuesday, per NewsNation. "Everyone forgets the first part of the film," he added, referring to Russia's 2014 takeover of Crimea. His comments come days before...
Ethiopia is one of the most repressive environments for press freedom, with the government using censorship, harassment and arbitrary detention to stifle independent journalism, while YouTube is increasingly undermining the mission of amplifying the voices of exiled and independent journalists through opaque and seemingly biased moderation practices.
An appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can access sensitive federal data of millions of Americans, reversing a temporary injunction that was issued earlier this year. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision that unions looking to bar DOGE from accessing sensitive...
Spirit Airlines is facing financial difficulties and may not be able to continue operations within 12 months, according to its parent company's quarterly financial report.
