The Trump administration is set to withdraw some National Guard troops from Chicago and Portland, Ore., according to multiple reports. The New York Times reported Sunday that two U.S. officials said hundreds of National Guard soldiers were being pulled by the Defense Department from the two cities. The officials also said that around 200 members...
Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Sunday pitched why their bipartisan Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies extension proposal is necessary before the end-of-year expiration date. Their plan, formed with lawmakers from both parties, would extend the current subsidies for the next two years and place an income cap on those making between...
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Sunday said he is "very concerned" about the possibility of changing the hepatitis B vaccine schedule for infants in the United States. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s panel of federal vaccine advisers is set to discuss and potentially vote on changing that vaccine schedule when they next meet...
If you shouldn’t fix what isn’t broken, you certainly shouldn’t fix what’s working very well. This is especially true when the imprudent change would risk the U.S. military’s prospects of victory in a future war. President Donald Trump appears poised to make such a mistake by announcing the relocation of the military’s Space Command from […]
A challenge to mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani: If you disagree with the Democratic Socialist of America's call to end all misdemeanor offenses, say it.
President Trump must spur Britain, France and Germany to trigger “snapback” UN sanctions against Iran’s atomic work — before Barack Obama's flawed Iran deal...
MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING REVIVES OLD GUN DEBATE IN NEW CONTEXT OF TRUMP CRIME PUSH. A lot of big-city Democrats, plus their allies in activist groups, plus their allies in the media, plus the officials at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in Minneapolis, are denouncing President Donald Trump’s effort to curb crime in Washington, D.C. When Trump […]
With President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., last week, calls for the district to become a state have ratcheted up. “The president’s abuses are evidence of the urgent need for D.C. statehood so that more than 700,000 D.C. residents can finally have the full rights and privileges afforded to other […]
I’ll tell you my worst nightmare. My son sits nestled into the middle of a church pew on a Wednesday morning, his uniformed schoolmates packed in beside him. It’s his third day of school. Tentative and self-conscious by nature, he feels his peers’ eyes from the pews behind him; he scrunches in close to keep […]
The Constitution of the United States lays out a complex scheme of governance that has mostly worked for the 237 years since it became effective with the ratification of the ninth state, New Hampshire, in 1788. There have been exceptions, of course. Abraham Lincoln took extraordinary steps to quell the rebellion of eleven Southern states. […]
