The man accused of spraying Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with apple cider vinegar during a January town hall in her Minnesota district has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, according to court filings. Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, is expected to change his plea to guilty during a May 7 hearing in U.S. District Court in St. Paul,...
The recall covers roughly 207,800 pairs of 32 Degrees-branded socks which the CPSC says are tied to at least 14 "heat-related incidents." Thirteen of those incidents involved burns.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned on Thursday that investments in artificial intelligence could trigger a potential economic crash, drawing parallels to the 2008 financial crisis caused by a collapse in the housing bubble. “The parallels to the 2008 financial crisis are striking: the reckless behavior of a few billionaires and Big Tech CEOs has turned...
In many parts of the country, especially rural America, a hospital is not simply a healthcare facility. It is critical infrastructure. It is where trauma care begins, where babies are delivered, and where chronic conditions are managed. When a community hospital becomes financially unstable, the consequences extend far beyond its walls. Local economies suffer. Emergency […]
The ubiquitous and outrageous lie that Israel committed a “genocide” in Gaza has been further debunked, inadvertently, by Hamas itself. The Israelis have prosecuted an aggressive yet defensive war after their territory was breached by hordes of bloodthirsty terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023. The barbarian invaders slaughtered nearly 1,200 people during the atrocity, including dozens […]
The Supreme Court’s 8-1 ruling this week in Chiles v. Salazar is about more than one Christian counselor in Colorado and the state’s ham-fisted attempt to silence her. It is a window into one of the defining tensions of our political moment: the collision between the intolerance of modern progressivism and the enduring discipline of […]
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. President Donald Trump offered an upbeat assessment of the war with […]
The rapidly escalating conflict in Iran is already sending shockwaves through commodities markets, including aluminum — a strategic industrial material essential to civilian and military uses that the U.S. still largely sources from abroad. It’s a stark reminder of how quickly geopolitical instability can expose strategic vulnerabilities at home. Against that backdrop, January’s announcement of […]
Every day brings fresh proof that the Biden Justice Department’s “Arctic Frost” operation was one of the most brazen surveillance operations carried out on political opponents in modern American history. And what’s most alarming is the secret method that allowed phone records to be seized without anyone even knowing. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) recently released […]
“Reclaiming Affordability” is an op-ed series in partnership between the Independent Women and the Washington Examiner. Each day this week, a policy expert at Independent Women will tackle the top concern on the minds of voters this election cycle from a different angle, putting forth realistic solutions to the affordability crisis. This past year, a […]
It’s tempting to try to forget the COVID-19 pandemic. Nobody likes to dwell on bad memories. But we do ourselves no favors if we forget how the federal, state, and local governments responded to the crisis — especially the public health bureaucracies. From the possible source of the virus in China to the effectiveness of […]
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are rightly focused on rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in taxpayer-funded programs. But in their search for bad actors who are bilking the public for billions of dollars, the White House and Congress shouldn’t only focus on famously porous welfare programs such as Medicaid and food stamps. They […]
A new YouGov poll contains an interesting discovery, which made sense but was, at the same time, infuriating. The two ends of the political spectrum respond in opposite ways when asked whether allies should support the United States. Conservatives say yes. Liberals? Not so much. That is a no-brainer. The answer should be an unequivocal […]
When Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez forbade U.S. forces from using Spanish bases to support the war in Iran and then banned U.S. military overflights, President Donald Trump was furious, but Sanchez stood firm. “We are not going to be complicit in something that is bad for the world,” Sánchez declared in a Mar. 4 […]
A year ago today, President Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs, taxes on Americans that constantly changed, seemingly at the presidential whim. Since then, they have raised prices for everyone, increased costs for domestic manufacturers, and unleashed a wave of uncertainty across an economy that had been recovering from the Biden years. During the first few […]
