Following his meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping declared that "the two sides have also made progress and reached agreements on some specific issues. This is very good."
The U.S. military has deployed thousands of personnel and 100 aircraft for NATO's ongoing Air Defender 23 exercise. That exercise simulates the defense of Germany against the invasion of a capable adversary. That the U.S. is deploying so much capability here underlines its commitment to NATO, generally, and its German ally, in particular.
A few weeks ago, my college friends and I all got together for the weekend. We are seven guys in our mid-40s who have been friends for about 25 years. We drank beer and flavored seltzer and spoke about marriage, parenthood, artificial intelligence, Moby Dick, Homer, and faith, along with reminiscing about college days.
A.G. Sulzberger, the New York Times’s publisher, knows his paper’s reporting on New York’s Hasidic yeshivas troubles members of the Jewish community. Still, Sulzberger has twice misrepresented those concerns. In an article for the Columbia Journalism Review and then an interview with the New Yorker, Sulzberger claimed critics accept the reporting as true but worry about its misuse. Sulzberger added, “We heard from countless members of the community saying, ‘We needed this.’”
If the United States goes to war with China over Taiwan, a likelier than not possibility, Chinese People's Liberation Army facilities across the globe will be legitimate targets for the U.S. military.
TRUMP'S FATAL OBSESSION. Fox News anchor Bret Baier covered a lot of ground in his must-watch interview with former President Donald Trump on Monday. The classified documents case. China. Russia and the war in Ukraine. All made news. But perhaps the most revelatory moment came when Trump returned to a topic he has discussed many, many times: the 2020 presidential election.
For the first anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson, Senate Democrats plan to propose a series of pro-abortion bills. But they don’t actually think any of the laws will pass. Their goal, typical of the Democratic Party, is to provoke the GOP.
I have dozens of friends and contacts who worked in Donald Trump’s presidency, and I know that many of them had deep reservations about Trump’s fitness for the job. I never would have worked for Trump, but when I look at good attorneys who did (such as Pat Cipollone, Jeffrey Rosen, and Don McGahn), I am grateful.
There is only one word adequate to describe former President Donald Trump’s interview with Bret Baier last night: disaster. Aside from possibly admitting to criminal actions and defending withholding classified documents because the boxes containing them were interspersed with “golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes,” he was also left with no answers when pressed on the staffing decisions he made while president. The implications are damning.
When Meghan Markle and her husband Prince Harry chose to “step back” from their work with the British royal family in 2020, they made their real intentions obvious as they cashed in. Soon after saying sayonara to the dying Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II, Harry and Meghan brokered a $20 million deal from Spotify, a $100 million deal from Netflix, and a $40 million deal from Penguin Random House.
In recent years, the DC cinematic universe of Warner Bros. has weathered more upheavals and personnel changes than Fleetwood Mac in the 1970s. Struggling to consolidate a unifying vision, DC parted ways with Zack Snyder, aiming to salvage and revitalize the troubled franchise.
First son Hunter Biden has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to two tax crimes and admit to possessing a firearm illegally while in the throes of his drug addictions — in exchange for skirting jail time.
A few years ago, after one of my classes at the University of Pennsylvania, I walked over to Body Cycle Studio on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. I arrived before the studio opened and figured I’d kill time at the nearby Starbucks.
