The U.S. Postal Service says it will continue to accept packages from China and Hong Kong, reversing a pause that coincided with President Trump's decision to revoke a privilege that allowed many small packages from those places to enter the U.S. duty-free.
Congressional Democrats begged the Justice Department to stop lending law enforcement agents and officers to Homeland Security to help with President Trump's deportation push, saying it's taking them away from "true public safety threats."
President Trump on Wednesday congratulated Pam Bondi on her confirmation as U.S. attorney general and predicted she would be a history-making leader at the Department of Justice.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump, the first post-inaugural White House visit by a foreign leader, could shape the Middle East for generations. Pre-meeting speculation centered on how the leaders would handle the Hamas-Israel war. Stunningly, Trump’s comments just before and then after his meeting with Netanyahu focused on the U.S. taking […]
Institutional neutrality policies, such as those adopted by Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania, are good steps for hyperpoliticized universities. They also could prove entirely inconsequential. Each school has published a statement of its own explaining the policy and what it aims to accomplish. Universities taking official positions on sociopolitical events has become commonplace […]
Last week saw the worst U.S. aviation disaster in nearly a quarter century when an Army helicopter collided in midair with an American Airlines passenger plane near Washington, D.C.’s Reagan National Airport. None survived among the 64 passengers and crew onboard American Eagle flight 5342, nor did the helicopter’s three soldiers. While investigation into the […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington on Tuesday can be a significant step forward for the Trump administration to stabilize the Middle East. Despite its loss of Syria and setbacks to its Hamas and Hezbollah proxies, Iran remains the key disruptive actor in the region. Tehran’s nuclear ambitions are very close to realization, […]
Donald Trump has returned to the presidency with gusto. Within the torrent of executive orders he signed upon entering office was a push to end birthright citizenship, which triggered constitutional challenges from 22 states. Last week, the president issued, and then quickly reversed, a freeze on all federal grants, spurring legal debates about the constitutionality of the effort. Most recently, the Trump […]
As the Trump administration pursues a mission to develop America’s fossil fuel resources, people must unfortunately brace for the impending countermovements from environmental activists who increasingly deploy destructive tactics to gain attention and spread their message. While the Biden administration was largely friendly to environmental causes, it was not immune to disruptive and confrontational protests […]
Amid the tumult of President Donald Trump’s first week back in office, the Supreme Court accepted a landmark case that could, depending on how the court rules, allow religious public schools. But while this is an enormous issue on its own, the case could introduce an even more fundamental concept: the recognition that public schooling […]
Created by executive order at the height of the Cold War, the United States Agency for International Development was originally intended to fight the spread of communism by helping countries develop liberal market democracies. While the agency could be a key asset in countering the influence of the Chinese Communist Party throughout the developing world, […]
Under Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the CFPB was closer to a progressive vigilante shakedown shop than a government regulator. Donald Trump should shut...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s two-day Senate confirmation hearing should remove all doubt: He’s absolutely unfit to head the Department of Health and Human Services.
