President Trump signed two executive orders Monday slashing nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, reversing Biden-era expansions and reigniting a decades-long battle over presidential authority under the Antiquities Act.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday the federal immigration officer who fatally shot a man in Maine did so out of fear for “public safety.” The department wrote on X that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were conducting “targeted surveillance on the last known address” of an undocumented migrant in Biddeford, Maine,...
The defense ministry of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said Monday Iranian forces targeted a pair of its tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, killing one crew member. The UAE Ministry of Defence wrote on social platform X Iranian cruise missiles hit the country’s Mombasa and Al Bahiyah tankers, which were transiting the southern lane...
Shortly after arriving in Washington, D.C., 25 years ago, I learned something about the professional Republican class, the folks who made their money working for the party or its politicians. While most congressional staffers were pretty conservative, there were plenty of people working as political professionals who didn’t really hold any beliefs very strongly at […]
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, now locked in a public feud with his own church, is confronting a domestic institution defined by decades of Russian influence. The Armenian Apostolic Church is one of the country’s most powerful institutions. Over the past several months, the confrontation between the state and the clergy has been marked by […]
Democratic Party policies were soundly rejected by voters last November, so activists are turning to courts at the state, federal, and international levels to impose costly and painful climate change policies on consumers. But there are signs that common sense may prevail. A federal court in Montana threw out a case last week that was […]
The Future of Jihad is Female. That’s the name of a fictitious book in the new film After the Hunt. The film, starring Julia Roberts, is Hollywood finally, at long last, challenging the more hysterical aspects of the #MeToo movement. It takes place at Yale in 2019, and at one point students and academics attend […]
A new Washington Post poll reports that fewer than one in five American Jews say they feel “very safe” in the United States. 42% say they avoid publicly wearing anything that might identify them as Jewish, a 16-point jump in just one year. On its face, this seems to tell a grim story about rising […]
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DONEGAL, Pennsylvania — It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You’re hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 minutes until sunset, and you have just over a mile to go, mostly uphill, before you are out of the deep forest and in […]
