After a few days campaigning in safe conservative territory, President Donald Trump on Saturday takes his midterm tour into Ohio, a battleground state that's home to one of the top-tier Senate races this cycle.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth indicated on Saturday that some U.S. service members could be redeployed from Europe to the Western Hemisphere as the Trump administration ramps up its deadly campaign against drug cartels in South America. “Well, we're definitely expanding our presence and our footprint in Central and South America with partners, and because of...
An Oklahoma federal judge ruled Friday that warrantless searches using AI-powered surveillance camera data, such as what Flock Safety's hallmark technology collects, may violate the Fourth Amendment without adequate probable cause. “Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society, and it is a reasonable expectation that society...
The Trump administration is moving ahead with big changes to Head Start, the federal early childhood education program that serves low-income families, to the outcry of advocates who say the proposals will limit access to the program, currently serving 700,000 students. Interested parties have until Tuesday to submit their thoughts to the federal government on...
The Issue: New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill reveals 400 noncitizens cast illegal ballots in Jersey elections. So, New Jersey Gov. Incompetent, er, Mikie Sherrill...
The number of Americans filing for new unemployment claims fell to its lowest level in over half a century. Core consumer price index inflation, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, fell back to its lowest level since March, defying expectations, and the International Monetary Fund has upgraded its expectations of the country’s economic growth for […]
“Let’s go home,” Matt Damon says brusquely, playing an exhausted Odysseus. Damon’s a good actor, and that moment in previews got me pumped for the movie. It’s a punchy, understated framing of the Odyssey: A perilous journey home from a lengthy and disastrous home. But that’s not a scene from Homer’s Odyssey. I’m not saying […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has inherited the socialist lane for Democratic presidential primaries from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and the country should be prepared to face that fact in the 2028 elections. A recently released University of New Hampshire poll put Ocasio-Cortez’s support in the Granite State at 22%, just ahead of former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s […]
Tension is building over the purported relocation of nuclear centrifuges to Iran’s deep bunker complex inside Pickaxe Mountain. Located deep within the Zagros Mountain range, the complex is nearly 300 miles from the northern Persian Gulf. President Donald Trump stated on Tuesday that the United States would be bombing the complex “pretty soon, very heavily, […]
American medicine is freaking out. Polls show that trust in medical professionals is the lowest in decades. Barely half the public has high levels of trust in doctors, with double-digit percentage declines in recent years. While the media is pointing the finger at politicians like President Donald Trump, the truth is that a different kind […]
As its candidates win races nationwide, the Democratic Socialists of America is honing its message. The DSA’s new platform, released July 14, offers Marxist nostrums that would destroy American prosperity and liberty. This is especially true on foreign policy, an often-overlooked aspect of the DSA agenda. The DSA wants a weak United States unable to […]
On July 1, California’s Assembly Appropriations Committee advanced AB 1383, a bill that guts the pension reform Sacramento passed in 2013 to keep its own promises honest. It would drop the public safety retirement age from 57 to 55, invent a new 3%-at-55 benefit formula, and let cities bargain away the cost-sharing rules that reform […]
Washington spent years restricting China’s access to advanced semiconductors and the equipment used to manufacture them. Those controls protect an important American advantage. They do not tell states and communities how to evaluate the facilities needed to install, power, and cool those chips at home. New York exposed that omission on July 14, when Gov. […]
We live in a world where access to information is more plentiful than ever, yet truth has never felt more elusive. AI summaries, 24/7 media, and never-ending social media “takes” create more opportunities for content to be corrupted by misinformation and disinformation. Wikipedia is another example. Fresh claims of left-wing bias have triggered congressional concerns […]
Electricity bills are rising fast and eroding household budgets for millions of the public. The median household in the bottom fifth of earners spends nearly 10% of its income on energy, while the top fifth spends around 1%. In 2024, 43% of adults in households earning under $25,000 reported being unable to pay an energy […]
Congress does this often: it passes a law directing an agency to solve a hard problem, and then the real work, the part that determines whether the law means anything, happens quietly inside the executive branch months later. A provision of last year’s defense authorization act is a clear case. Section 1513 of the Fiscal […]
