Hawaii Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke (D) was indicted on bribery charges on Friday following a monthslong state investigation into a campaign finance scandal. Luke was accused of accepting campaign finance contributions in 2022 while she was a state lawmaker in exchange for securing funding for COVID-19 testing sites. A Hawaii grand jury returned a 12-count...
A federal appeals court on Saturday ruled against the Trump administration's efforts to implement stricter mail-in voting rules before midterm elections in the coming months, with control of both the House and Senate up for grabs. The 1st U.S. Circuit of Appeals declined to lift a lower-court injunction from June that ruled parts of President...
On Wednesday, Rep. Joni Ernst's office released a report detailing almost $163 billion in cost overruns on more than a dozen infrastructure projects, urging...
Hochul's 2023 All-Electric Buildings Act, which bans natural-gas hookups in new buildings, is a serious blow to freedom, common sense, and the future of...
Democrats are grasping for any ledge in the illegal immigration debate that could give them some support as they fight to keep all illegal immigrants in the country. They have settled on demanding that federal agents show their faces, an argument as silly as the motivation is malicious. Democrats in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York are trying to pass laws that would […]
When you see the name “Kamala Harris,” what’s the first word that pops into your mind? A) Historic B) Winner C) Loser D) Inauthentic E) Both C and D If you answered E, you’re correct. And sure, technically, Harris is historic in the sense she’s the first female vice president in history. But that title […]
Another new in vitro fertilization startup has emerged, this one with explicit intelligence parameters to play with as a feature of its website. But does it draw people to what children are, or what they are not? The company, called Herasight, recently went public with product promotion, having “already screened hundreds of embryos” for genetic […]
The student giving a tour at an elite American university this summer hit all the right points: what the core and elective courses are, how hard they are, and what campus life is like. It’s what the guide didn’t do that raised my eyebrow. Suddenly, there was no land acknowledgment. It was like Sherlock Holmes’s […]
It has been more than 22 months since my son, Itay, a U.S.-Israeli citizen, was taken hostage by Hamas. He remains in the dungeons of Gaza to this day, along with 49 other hostages. Itay was stationed at the Gaza border to protect local agricultural communities when he was abducted and kidnapped. There has been […]
“If the government wants poor children to thrive, it should give their parents money.” That simple idea, the New York Times reported, has fueled a national push to provide low‑income families with regular, no‑strings‑attached payments. Alas, new economic research suggests alleviating poverty might not be so simple. A “rigorous new experiment” recently published by the […]
When Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s presidency on an anti-corruption platform in 2019, he embodied the country’s youthful desire for reform. The eruption of a political turf war last week, ironically, over control of Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies, has revealed a different side to the comedian-turned-war leader. But it has also reaffirmed how fiercely the […]
