Gavin Newsom has a long record of blunders, from the French Laundry to the Train to Nowhere. The latest is the Hollywood tax credit, which he canceled by mistake.
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced on Tuesday night that it completed an additional round of strikes on "dozens" of military targets near the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's coastal region at 10 p.m. EDT. The strikes came after the U.S. resumed a naval blockade at 4 p.m. EDT, with over 20 U.S. Navy warships and...
President Trump on Tuesday warned Iran that the U.S. is "going to hit them very hard" after the fourth day of U.S. strikes on the Islamic regime. Trump spoke with Fox News's Trey Yingst about the conflict, saying that the U.S. will gradually expand its strikes across Iran's infrastructure. "We're going to hit them very...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday will hold the Economic Diplomacy Action Group's (EDAG) first meeting, two years after it was established during the Biden administration. The committee, made up of federal agency leaders, will "shape the contours and focus of U.S. economic statecraft to advance U.S. foreign policy priorities," including "American leadership in AI," a State...
Fresh off his triumphant Gaza peace deal, President Donald Trump is now weighing a different sort of path to peace in Ukraine. Having masterfully blended incentives and consequences to broker the Gaza agreement, Trump is now considering selling Tomahawk long-range missiles to Kyiv, a step long requested by President Volodimyr Zelensky to finally end the […]
Three and 1/2 years into Russia‘s full-scale war against Ukraine, Europe is still helping pay for it. Since the invasion, the European Union has imported more than €213 billion ($247 billion USD) worth of Russian energy supplies, according to data from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. That is more than the […]
Artificial intelligence defines this decade and will shape the 21st century. This technology enhances our lives and our businesses through improvements in advanced manufacturing, education, health, and mobility. We already see a surge in productivity tempering inflation and boosting economic growth. The open question: Who will win the AI race? Across many sectors, American businesses lead […]
LETITIA JAMES AND AN EYE FOR AN EYE. There’s no doubt Letitia James still wants to destroy Donald Trump. New York’s Democratic attorney general, who won office on a campaign pledge to pursue Trump, who filed a meritless lawsuit to destroy Trump’s business empire and with a sympathetic judge won a $454 million verdict, who cheered […]
The internet is currently obsessed with a scandal involving leftist streaming star and internet celebrity Hasan Piker, who faces allegations of abusing his dog with a shock collar, which he denies. But amid all the outrage over his dog, much more profound revelations about Piker have gone under the radar — after a New York […]
Fiscally bankrupt, France is trapped in economic stagnation. The immediate issue is the 2026 budget. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned due to an inability to negotiate a budget for 2026. Still, President Emmanuel Macron and Lecornu insist that a path to a budget compromise remains possible. Time will tell. However, the political crisis is pushing up interest rates among the countries […]
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus was perhaps, next to the border crisis he created, the worst misgovernment of his presidency, although competition for that shameful accolade is fierce. By funneling hundreds of billions of dollars in temporary spending into a rapidly heating economy through programs such as enhanced unemployment insurance, expanded child tax […]
It has become clear that our criminal justice system in many states has been broken by weak laws, weak prosecutors, and weak judges when it comes to violent criminals who have been adjudicated to be “insane.” Florida police recently arrested Ronald Exantus for a parole violation and failure to register as a convicted felon. In 2015, Exantus […]
