In President Donald Trump’s first term farewell address, he spoke with pride about restoring restraint to Washington. “I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars,” he declared. And, indeed, he was the first president since Jimmy Carter who could make that claim. Trump may be both […]
President Trump will ask countries that want to join his "Board of Peace" to oversee Gaza to pay $1 billion for membership, according to reporting from Bloomberg and The Atlantic on Saturday. A draft charter seen by both outlets showed that Trump will serve as the executive board's inaugural chairman, who will approve which member...
European leaders on Saturday said the trade deal with the U.S. and the European Union is on hold after President Trump announced new 10 percent tariffs on Denmark and other European countries over his growing rhetoric to acquire Greenland. President of the European People's Party (EPP) Manfred Weber said that while there is approval over...
The U.S. military conducted a strike in northwest Syria on Friday that killed an Al-Qaeda leader with ties to an alleged ISIS gunman who killed three Americans in an ambush last month, according to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). CENTCOM on Saturday identified the deceased leader as Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, an “experienced terrorist leader” with “direct...
President Trump is facing scrutiny over his increasing demands for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, facing pushback from Danish and Greenlandic leaders, some Republican lawmakers and a majority of Americans. The president has frequently said the U.S. needs the island territory for national security purposes, citing the threat of Russia and China having access to...
As a former Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and cattle producer, I’ve seen firsthand the devastating effects of animal disease outbreaks. Few threats concern me more than the return of New World Screwworm, a dangerous parasite that poses a serious risk to U.S. livestock and wildlife if we fail to act promptly. The United […]
The Trump White House has made clear it will move to eliminate race-consciousness, a.k.a. “DEI,” in federal policy and regulation. A May Office of Personnel and Management memo to all federal department and agency heads advised that hiring decisions had “overemphasized discriminatory ‘equity’ quotas” and ordered an end to “the hiring of individuals based on […]
Employers may have added just 73,000 jobs in the month of July, according to the latest Labor Department jobs report published Friday. But that same survey found that the number of native-born workers with jobs rose by 383,000, bringing the total number of native-born jobs gained to over 2 million since President Donald Trump took […]
Judging from the media, you could be forgiven if you thought President Donald Trump’s job approval ratings are in a free fall. Not only are they actually on the rise, but the major polling averages underestimate his true standing with voters. That’s because Trump currently suffers from the largest gap in at least over a decade between approval ratings as measured […]
On Wednesday, Rep. Joni Ernst's office released a report detailing almost $163 billion in cost overruns on more than a dozen infrastructure projects, urging...
Hochul's 2023 All-Electric Buildings Act, which bans natural-gas hookups in new buildings, is a serious blow to freedom, common sense, and the future of...
