Self-proclaimed "Deadhead" and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi draws criticism for her demeanor and outfit choice while speaking at Bob Weir's memorial celebration in San Francisco.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to the Trump administration's decision to scrap free national park entry on MLK Day, offering free admission to 200-plus state parks.
Republican senators have asked the Justice Department to investigate a Minneapolis-based charity that nearly landed $1 million in taxpayer money courtesy of Rep. Ilhan Omar, saying it shows signs of being a fraud operation.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) criticized President Trump’s push to acquire Greenland on Sunday and said it is “not about security.” “This is not about security, Jon. This is about a land grab. Donald Trump wants to get his hands on the minerals and other resources of Greenland, just like the real reason he went...
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts may already be the reigning Super Bowl Most Valuable Player, but according to Good Morning Football host Kyle Brandt, his next season just might be his best — all because Hurts was one of many NFL athletes who got married this offseason. “So many players got married this offseason,” said […]
The recent release of documents on the Donald Trump-Russia hoax makes plainer than ever the damage former President Barack Obama has inflicted on our democracy. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard referred the matter to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecutions because, she says, “there is irrefutable evidence that details how President Obama and […]
ADEN, Yemen — When the war on the Houthis erupted, Saudi Arabia was its front line. The United States saw Saudi Arabia as its ally. Even President Barack Obama supported Saudi efforts, providing U.S. intelligence and aerial refueling to support Saudi Arabia’s bombing campaign. As the threats from Yemen grew, Saudi Arabia and the United […]
Text message scams are skyrocketing, and the federal government is finally starting to do something about it. As a former Attorney General for Virginia, I can tell you that when scammers are working outside of a local area, nationally or internationally, in this case, state and local officials don’t have the jurisdiction to do anything […]
As the Pakistani government has removed 300,000 Afghans from its borders since Jan. 1, U.S. allies are increasingly among those being returned to their homeland. This week, two U.S. nonprofits reported that six Afghans in U.S. processing pipelines were deported in a single 24-hour period. Since the fall of the Afghan government in August 2021, […]
Before the sexual-assault claims against Justice Brett Kavanaugh totally fell apart, one of the knocks on him, wielded almost as evidence of his guilt, was that he went to an all-boys school. When NPR set out last decade to define a “bro” (“a specific kind of fratty masculinity”), one of the criteria was a tendency […]
In April, China restricted exports of crucial rare earth elements and magnets, which are used in everything from fighter jets and submarines to missile systems and drones. President Donald Trump rightly drew a sharp line on China’s aggressive moves, issuing an executive order designed to boost production of critical minerals here in the United States. […]
California is not exactly a shining beacon of how the criminal justice system should operate. Believe it or not, the state can always come up with ways to make things worse. The California legislature is pushing ahead with a bill that would allow cities to fine businesses up to $650 for the return of shopping […]
The July heat wrapped Mar-a-Lago in a sultry haze, palm trees sagging under the weight of a Florida evening. Inside a briefing room, President Donald Trump faced screens flashing with X posts and cable news tickers, all dominated by the relentless specter of Jeffrey Epstein. Newly unsealed documents — birthday letters, ’90s photos, and whispers […]
If you don’t like Columbia University’s principles, it has others. For decades, Columbia rejected the evidence of its political extremism as a conservative smear job and said academic freedom was priceless. But when the Trump administration pressed the university to follow the law, its professors folded. The price of academic freedom turns out to be […]
Ed Feulner, who died on July 18, was a big man in every sense. Tall and bulky, he had a largeness of spirit, a generosity of soul, and his ambitions were commensurately vast. When he started running the Heritage Foundation in the early 1970s, it had nine employees. Now it has 300, half a million […]
The most sober a crack addict ever sounds is when he’s talking about the science of, well, crack. Amid three hours of screaming about George Clooney, the illegal immigrants responsible for cleaning his post-bender hotel rooms, the “f***ing dictator thug” Donald Trump, and his father’s entire campaign staff, Hunter Biden only finally found peace when […]
Pop music, like the rest of American society, has reached the exhausted endpoint of the taboo-litigation mania that’s marred the past decade of our national life. Having reckoned with racism, sexism, and a host of other identitarian crimes, and then having decided the reckoning was too embarrassing in its overreach for us to continue or […]
The Middle East was but a “sideshow” of a great power war, the legendary World War I British officer T.E. Lawrence, “Lawrence of Arabia,” indirectly admitted nearly a decade after the Great War’s end. Yet Lawrence himself had been drawn mothlike to the region’s flame, optimistically — some might say foolishly — projecting his hopes […]
