New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed executive orders recognizing the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and handed one of the pens to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who once represented an al-Qaida operative.
The Trump administration on Sunday renewed its appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal judge blocked new restrictions on mail ballots ahead of the midterms.
The U.S. has established an initiative to secure international shipping through the Red Sea. The Red Sea is a key international transit route for goods coming to Europe from Asia and vice versa. Ten percent of total global trade flows through these waters and the Suez Canal.
As dignitaries marked the funeral of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on Tuesday, one hopes she can finally get her due as the trailblazer she was. As is usual for Republicans or those deemed right of center, the media have shortchanged her.
It is almost certain that anyone under the retirement age can beat President Joe Biden next year almost by default. Naturally, Republican voters are still favoring the only candidate that could give Biden a chance.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is one of the most conservative members of Congress, not simply by the Reagan-era definition of conservative. He is a social conservative, a border hawk, and a fiscal conservative, and he has the fighting spirit of the current Republican Party.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed a new law Monday that would make crossing the Texas-Mexico border a state crime, empowering Texas law enforcement to arrest and detain illegal border-crossers.
NIKKI HALEY, DONALD TRUMP, AND 'CHAOS FOLLOWS HIM.' Like all the Republican candidates for president, Nikki Haley is trying to find the secret formula for running against Donald Trump. The most recent Fox News national poll, in which the former president is leading Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) by 57 points and Haley by 60, shows that no one has discovered the formula yet.
When Voltaire wrote Candide, he intended to lampoon the idea that everything happens for the best. What he ended up with was a different mantra, one that, if not necessarily optimistic, at least gave human beings a mission: to cultivate their own gardens. Some have interpreted this to mean that one must leave the world behind.
The flow of migrants illegally crossing the southern border has grown into such a flood that it is shutting down legal immigration and international trade. All vehicular traffic has been suspended in Eagle Pass, Texas. In San Diego, California, all pedestrian crossings have been stopped. In Lukeville, Arizona, the port of entry has been closed. In El Paso, Texas, freight train traffic has been shunted to a complete standstill.
Twenty-five years ago today, the House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton. It was the first presidential impeachment in 130 years, and it ushered in a quarter-century of toxic politics.
