House Republicans reject the Senate's Department of Homeland Security spending plan, with the Freedom Caucus pushing to fund the entire department through budget reconciliation.
Conservative Justice Annette Ziegler announced Monday that she will retire from the Wisconsin Supreme Court when her term ends, delivering a blow to Republicans who have seen liberals take over the high court's majority in recent years. “After three decades on the bench, now is the right time for me to step away to spend...
Journalist Scott MacFarlane is leaving CBS News, the latest in a string of high-profile departures at the broadcaster since its parent company Paramount Skydance was bought last year by Larry and David Ellison. MacFarlane, who made a name for himself covering the Justice Department and issues relating to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the...
Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith distanced himself from the idea of running for president, saying in a new interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity that he wouldn’t want to give up his wealth. In a preview of the debut episode of the “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” podcast, which launches Tuesday morning, Smith discussed the...
The National Park Service (NPS) on Monday announced the return of fireworks at Mount Rushmore to celebrate Independence Day. In a press release, the NPS said fireworks will be launched over Mount Rushmore on July 3, adding later that “the return of fireworks to this iconic national memorial reflects President Donald J. Trump’s vision of...
Despite decades of survey data showing that Americans are managing their personal lives, national wellbeing is declining due to decreasing satisfaction with democracy, institutional confidence, and increasing affective polarization.
President Trump is pushing oil tanker crews to “show some guts” and sail through the Strait of Hormuz. “These ships should go through the Strait of Hormuz and show some guts, there’s nothing to be afraid of … They have no Navy, we sunk all their ships,” Trump said, according to Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade,...
A hardware leader at OpenAI has left the artificial intelligence firm in the wake of the company’s recent partnership with the Pentagon, citing concerns over surveillance and autonomous weapons. Caitlin Kalinowski, who was a member of OpenAI’s technical staff overseeing hardware, announced Friday that “principle, not people” led to the decision. “This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without...
Mojtaba Khamenei was selected to lead Iran on Monday after his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. Mojtaba was elected by a body of 88 Iranian clerics known as the Assembly of Experts. Father-to-son succession is traditionally frowned upon in the Shiite Muslim clerical establishment in part due to an intent to separate...
