Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell just put an extraordinary number on what it would take to adequately police America's second-largest city: 12,500 officers.
Israeli forces detained more than 70 people across the occupied West Bank overnight Friday and into Saturday after violence in a northern Palestinian village killed two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinians. According to The Associated Press, the Israeli military said in a statement that troops searched more than 300 locations and arrested people it described...
Dangerously hot temperatures spanned across much of the central U.S. on Saturday as a sprawling heat dome, in which a high-pressure atmospheric system traps hot air over a large area keeping temperatures high, settled over the region that could persist into next week. Heat advisories went out for roughly 80 million people after the National...
Democratic New York mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani could have responded to the murder of a New York City Police officer in any number of ways. He chose to go the shameless route, pretending that he wasn’t using the death of a police officer to rewrite his history of hating the police. Mamdani held a press conference on Wednesday after NYPD […]
Britain, as every American knows, has a free speech problem. As a Brit, though, I am starting to wonder whether the United States might be developing a free speech problem of its own. The question occurred to me in an immigration line as I checked my devices for memes that might be deemed anti-MAGA. Foreign […]
All was initially well for Catholics at Sunday night’s mass at the Parish of Blessed Anuarite in Komanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They reportedly gathered to engage in festivities celebrating the Catholic Church’s silver jubilee, but many of them would never get that opportunity. In an instant, radical Islamic terrorists from the ISIS-backed Allied […]
FROM ‘HE’S CRASHING THE ECONOMY’ TO ‘IT’S A MIRAGE.’ Go back three months, when the government released gross domestic product numbers for the first quarter of 2025. The report was that GDP fell 0.3% in the first quarter, later revised to 0.5%. That would have been disturbing except for the explanation: In anticipation of President Donald […]
A new poll released by Pew Research this morning reveals a seismic shift: younger Americans have swung toward the Republican Party at historic levels in the past two years. For a Democratic Party that relies on the youth vote as a foundational element of its coalition, these results are nothing less than a generational disaster. […]
Though Washington laments the slow demise of civility within Congress, bipartisanship, at least when it comes to legislating, is usually a bad thing. It only emerges when both sides want to waste taxpayer money on things nobody wants and to regulate things everybody likes. So it’s shocking that Democrats and Republicans on the Senate banking […]
A new, large-scale study published in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities reveals how smartphone ownership in childhood may be derailing young people’s mental health. The study included data from more than 100,000 18- to 24-year-olds living around the globe. Owning a smartphone before the age of 13 was associated with poorer mental health, […]
On Wednesday, while writing a story on gerrymandering, I asked ChatGPT, “Which states have congressional delegation partisan breakdowns most divergent from the presidential vote in 2024?” The artificial intelligence interlocutor then named Florida, Texas, North Carolina, and Ohio as the biggest offenders, all of which are controlled by Republicans and have House delegations that skew […]
There is a genre of online video and social media post that is revealing of our time. In one such video, an online fitness influencer posts herself crying in her car outside the gym. The words accompanying the tears: “Just saw a teenage boy (who’s just been taught how to bench for the first time) […]
Democrats are so singularly focused on abortion that the party is now arguing that the First Amendment dictates that Planned Parenthood must be given taxpayer funding. Democratic attorneys general from 23 states are suing the Trump administration over defunding Planned Parenthood, emboldened by a liberal activist judge who has ordered that funding continue. California Attorney […]
Who’s afraid of Sydney Sweeney‘s double-decker décolletage? Apparently, vast chunks of elite left-wing media, given its widespread apoplexy in response to the Emmy-nominated actress’s new denim campaign for American Eagle. MSNBC deemed Sweeney “disappointing” for starring in a “dangerous” American Eagle advertising campaign that embraces “an unbridled cultural shift towards whiteness.” The style correspondents of […]
The Democratic Party is whining about a new Texas Republican Party map released Wednesday that would turn the current 12-seat Republican advantage (25-13) in the House delegation to a 22-seat (30-8) advantage. Democrats are promising to fight the new map in court and threatening to gerrymander their own states to give Democrats a similar partisan […]
On July 29, 2025, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that the United Kingdom would recognize a State of Palestine unilaterally unless Israel and Hamas reach a ceasefire by September 2025. If terrorism is a wildfire, Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron — who announced on July 24 that France would also recognize Palestine — […]
