San Antonio shut down its abortion travel fund after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit and new state law banning public funding for out-of-state abortions.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Reuters on Friday that the U.S. may lift some sanctions on Venezuela in order to facilitate oil sales. Bessent also said that nearly $5 billion in Venezuela’s frozen International Monetary Fund (IMF) special drawing rights monetary assets could be used to rebuild its economy. The IMF has not engaged with...
Two individuals were injured Sunday after a person drove a U-Haul truck into a crowd of demonstrators protesting the Iranian regime in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said Sunday that the incident occurred at roughly 3:30 p.m. local time, in the Westwood neighborhood near the Wilshire Federal Building. The LAPD said that...
President Trump said Sunday the U.S. military is considering “strong options” on Iran as the country’s regime cracks down on growing nationwide protests. When asked on Air Force One whether Iran is crossing a red line, the president told reporters “they’re starting to, it looks like.” “There seemed to be some people killed that aren’t...
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. I’m not in the prediction business. But I do enjoy history. […]
The world’s birth rate is just about equal to, or possibly even below, the level at which the human population will hold steady — right about 2.1 babies per woman. The United States’s birth rate has been falling for 18 years, is at a record low, and is still falling. Fewer children exist in the […]
The relationship between marijuana, psychosis and schizophrenia is well established. But for the Minnesota school shooter's weed habit, his victims could be alive today.
We need steady, sensible, respectable officials leading national immunization policy — but what we got at the CDC was another lefty theater kid putting...
During the 2024 Olympics, liberal media “fact checks” had a lot to say about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif’s gender. Now that Khelif is refusing genetic sex testing while still trying to box women, where are those fact-checkers? World Boxing introduced mandatory genetic testing for female boxers in May. Khelif is trying to get that testing […]
AMERICA’S HYPERPOLITICIZED TEACHERS UNIONS. About 70% of the nation’s public school teachers belong to a union or employees’ association. The two largest teachers unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, together represent about 4.7 million members. Politically, according to a study by Pew Research, about 58% of public school K-12 teachers identify […]
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