Data centers have gone from economic-development darlings to political hot potatoes as public opinion soured and many former advocates scramble to align with voters.
The Supreme Court on Monday again rejected President Trump's request to review a $5 million judgment in New York writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit against him.
Early childhood education is critical, particularly for low-income families. My Archbridge Institute colleague and Nobel Prize winner James Heckman has written extensively on this topic. This is why the Trump administration’s proposed reforms to Head Start are so badly needed. In the real world, resources are not unlimited. We simply can’t afford to continue devoting […]
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) on Tuesday strongly criticized the White House budget office for circulating a draft memo indicating that furloughed federal workers may not automatically receive back pay when the government eventually reopens. “I think it’s a horrible message to send to people who are basically hostages right now to the Democrats shutting...
The man who was allegedly attacked by Mark Sanchez during an altercation in downtown Indianapolis over the weekend is suing the former NFL starting quarterback turned television analyst and his network, Fox. In a suit filed Monday, lawyers for Perry Tole, a 69-year-old truck driver, alleged Sanchez started a fight that left him with "severe...
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) is holding a press conference Tuesday afternoon to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza. During the event, he is expected to unveil bipartisan legislation that will require school curriculums to educate students about the attack and rising antisemitism...
Congress must act now to ensure the responsible development of automated AI systems, before the next generation of AI systems begins writing the future without us in the loop.
In the resignation letter announcing her departure from the Grey Lady in July 2020, opinion journalist Bari Weiss memorably lamented that "Twitter is not on the masthead of the New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor." What Weiss meant was that the extremely progressive sensibilities of elite social media users — leftist...
Stephen Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, clapped back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday after she joked about his height and called him a "clown." “Well, we knew that her brain didn’t work,” Miller told Fox News's Laura Ingraham on her show "The Ingraham Angle." “Now we know that her eyes...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has proposed a "1990 test" to replace current military standards with those of 1990, which would exclude women from certain combat roles, despite their proven ability to serve in the military.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that federal workers furloughed during the shutdown should receive back pay, but he also raised the prospect that those payments might not be forthcoming. “I hope that the furloughed workers receive back pay, of course,” Johnson told reporters in the Capitol. “We have some extraordinary Americans who serve the...
If you’ve noticed tiny white specks floating through the air, or sticking to your car, clothes, or porch — you’re not alone. It is probably what experts are calling Hackberry Woolly Aphids.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said on Monday he thinks some Republicans are starting to talk about “breaking away” from President Trump. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Pritzker called on the public to elect members in 2026 “who actually will follow the law and follow the Constitution in the United States...
Chicago's police chief said Monday that more than two dozen officers were impacted by tear gas deployed by federal law enforcement when responding to a shooting over the weekend. Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said 27 officers were "affected" by chemical agents deployed by federal agents during a clash with protesters on Saturday. “When our...
More than a dozen candidates will be on the ballot Tuesday in Tennessee's special primary elections to replace former Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), months after the GOP lawmaker stepped down. Green represented voters in the Republican-leaning 7th Congressional District — a region that borders Kentucky and Alabama. He first won the district in 2018 and,...
