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Michael Goodwin: Trump spared the ayatollah for now— but his options in Iran are still wide open

Almost from the day Donald Trump entered the political arena, the legacy media have been committed to depicting him as a trigger-happy warmonger who’d rather shoot first and ask...

Bias and the Federal Judicial Center’s ‘Climate Science’

Should the FJC really be in the business of taking sides in active litigation?

Trump says he’ll protect time slot for Army-Navy game by executive order

President Trump on Saturday said he will sign an executive order to secure an "EXCLUSIVE" four-hour time slot for the annual Army-Navy college football game in December. "The Army-Navy Game is one of our Greatest American Traditions — Unmatched Patriotism, Courage, and Honor!" Trump posted on Truth Social. "This incredible Tradition is now at risk of being...

Iran protest death toll surges to over 3,300: Activist group

A human rights group on Saturday found that the number of deaths during widespread anti-government protests in Iran has reached over 3,300. The Human Rights Group Activist News Agency verified the latest death toll after three weeks of protests, with 4,382 cases that the group said are still under review. "So far, 2,107 people with...

Schumer: Democrats will try to block Trump’s Greenland tariffs

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Saturday said Senate Democrats will block President Trump's new 10 percent tariffs to be implemented on European countries over his calls for the U.S. to acquire Greenland. "Donald Trump’s foolhardy tariffs have already driven up prices and damaged our economy and now he is only making things worse,"...

Oil prices drop to lowest point since 2021

Oil prices on Tuesday dropped to their lowest point since 2021. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate was trading at about $55 per barrel, according to Business Insider’s tracker. That’s down from earlier in the week, when prices were as high as $58 per barrel. The last time prices were this low was in early 2021, when...

Maria Shriver rips Trump after shootings, Reiner death: ‘Only one person suffering from TDS’

Maria Shriver on Monday blasted President Trump over his remarks about the deaths of actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife, accusing the commander in chief as being the only person suffering from "TDS," or "Trump Derangement Syndrome." "Come on, come on," Shriver, the former first lady of California, said in a video on Instagram. "There's...

Ilhan Omar says ICE pulled over her son; racial profiling?  

This is not about open borders or closed borders. It is about whether America decides that looking American is enough. Or whether some people will always be asked to prove it. 

Democrats press tech giants on data center energy use, rising electricity bills

Three Senate Democrats said Tuesday that they are investigating the impact of data centers on consumer electricity bills amid concerns that the expansion of energy-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is driving up costs. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) pressed Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and several other tech firms about their data center build-outs and agreements...

Trump is wrong for politicizing Rob Reiner’s murder 

Yes, it’s true that Rob Reiner hated Trump, had called him mentally unfit for office, and inveighed against the president repeatedly on social media. But here, that old adage is quite appropriate: If you don’t have something nice to say, just say nothing.

Live updates: House, Senate attempt to move ahead on health plans with deadline looming

Congressional lawmakers on Tuesday are scrambling to hammer out plans to address rising insurance premium costs before their holiday recess, as the expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies looms large. The House Rules committee meets at 2 p.m., with the GOP leadership health plan on its agenda. Moderate Republicans will push for an amendment that...

Why would an A+++++ economy have so many bankruptcies? 

Despite President Trump's claims of an "A+++++" economy, rising bankruptcy rates among businesses, farmers, and health care companies indicate that the economy is facing significant challenges that need to be addressed.

Michelle Obama on death of Rob Reiner, wife: ‘We were supposed to be seeing them that night’

Former first lady Michelle Obama said she was supposed to see acclaimed actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, just hours after they were found stabbed to death in their home in Los Angeles on Sunday. "We’ve known them for many, many years, and we were supposed to be seeing them that night....

Who was Michele Singer? Rob Reiner’s wife and creative partner

Reiner and Singer were found dead inside their Brentwood, California home on Sunday suffering from stab wounds, KTLA has confirmed.  

Supreme Court didn’t do enough to make the ‘right to confront’ meaningful

Rather than assuming that anyone called to testify against a defendant in open court can do so truthfully and effectively, courts should adopt a more nuanced and contextual approach.  

The Movement: Conservatives face reckoning over Kirk conspiracy theories

Activists and commentators on the right are facing a reckoning over how to handle conspiracy theorists as podcaster Candace Owens and others purportedly digging into the assassination of Charlie Kirk have directed their fire at their friends and former colleagues at Turning Point USA. The sense among conservatives in the immediate aftermath of Kirk’s assassination just more than three months...

Senate Republican on Trump’s Reiner post: I think he ‘should have said nothing’

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said Monday that President Trump should not have weighed in on the deaths of acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, who were found with stab wounds over the weekend at their home in Los Angeles. Kennedy joined a growing chorus of Republicans pushing back on...

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 is ‘slop,’ and here’s why

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.

Semper folly: Abolishing the Marines would ignore history, geography

The Army, built for sustained heavy occupation, cannot deploy a brigade in under a month. The Marines, in contrast, are designed to deploy within 24 hours.

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