British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Tuesday that the United Kingdom will increase defense spending to at least 2.5% of gross domestic product by 2030. It will mean approximately $90 billion in additional spending by 2030. Sunak has also announced an additional $622 million U.K. aid allotment for Ukraine. Sunak’s statement appears precipitated, at […]
A new study from UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute has made the shocking discovery that people who identify as LGBT are more likely to be rich and reside in regions likely to be affected by climate change. According to the study on LGBT couples and climate change, “LGBT people in same-sex couples are at […]
ALTOONA, Pennsylvania — The oldest gas station in America still in operation, Reighard’s here in this Blair County city, got its start in 1908 when a local blacksmith decided to sell gasoline out the back of his shop when the Model T was introduced. It has been open ever since. While architecturally it is underwhelming, […]
Student debt, a new Gallup report shows, is making it harder for young people to reach key life milestones. According to a Gallup survey of over 14,000 adults, over 70% of people say student debt has “delayed major life events” including moving out of their parents’ home, getting married, and having a child. Strikingly, there […]
The following is part of a series about how the State Department age determinations for a special immigrant visa applicant’s son put him in needless peril for six years. In 2018, a U.S. consular officer told special immigrant visa applicant Wali Akrami that he would have to leave his adult son Waheed in Afghanistan if […]
Europe is getting a little more serious about challenging China’s vast espionage campaign against the West. On Monday, the United Kingdom charged two Britons, Christopher Cash, a 29-year-old parliamentary researcher, and Christopher Berry, a 32-year-old former teacher, with spying for China. The two men were first arrested more than a year ago, but U.K. prosecutors […]
Do Biden voters care about high gas prices? Do they enjoy paying significantly more at the pump compared to when former President Donald Trump was in office? It’s a logical question to ask given their support for a president who regularly thumps his chest when gas prices drop slightly, but goes into hiding when gas […]
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is comparing “pro-Palestinian” protests to the Black Lives Matter movement. They are alike in more ways than she can express, including that they are both built on myths. Bush is tying the two movements together by claiming that the antisemitic protesters harassing Jewish students on college campuses and expressing support for […]
President Joe Biden is so beholden to progressive grievance narratives that he can’t even condemn antisemitism without making it about the plight of the Palestinians. Students at Columbia University have taken their twisted oppression ideology to its logical conclusion, with students voicing support for terrorists and harassing Jewish students on campus. The White House issued […]
President Joe Biden took a bipartisan law meant to help women and unborn children and made it into another way to hurt the latter. The Biden administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its final rules for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act last week, and despite the bill having nothing to do with abortion, the Biden administration made […]
Hauled in front of Congress recently, Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp showed signs of being open to views other than his own, which may be a first for him. Thorp testified last Tuesday during a hearing titled “Academic Malpractice: Examining the Relationship Between Scientific Journals, the Government, and Peer Review” and hosted by the U.S. House […]
At this point, it seems like nearly every single elite college and university is under investigation by the Department of Education and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce due to rampant antisemitism. In New York City, protests have led to the arrest of scores of students at New York University and Columbia University, […]
Not content with wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on a high-speed train to nowhere and homeless programs that only make the problem worse, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has also presided over the bankruptcy of the state’s unemployment insurance program — a problem that will now require higher taxes on employers, which will only make the state’s […]
