It was a typical school day in December 1995. I was teaching fifth grade. The topic was the Constitutional Convention. Fifteen minutes into the lesson, it was clear that...
An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said.
President Trump on Sunday posted a map of New Mexico labeled "New America" following the spread of a since-debunked online hoax claiming he had signed an executive order renaming the state. The map Trump shared on Truth Social showed a large "X" over "Mexico" in the state's name, with the word "America" labeled below it....
At least five people are dead following an Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport (MIA), Miami-Dade County officials confirmed Sunday afternoon. The airplane overran the airport's runway at around 2 p.m., according to airport officials. The fatal crash initially caused a complete ground stop at MIA, though two of its four runways are...
President Trump on Sunday announced that the White House helipad — which was redone at his request last month — has been completed. Trump posted a photo on Truth Social of former President Eisenhower on the White House lawn before departing in an Air Force H-13J helicopter in July 1957, becoming the first U.S. president...
Like everyone else, my imagination filled in the missing gap of the original video of Iryna Zarutska’s murder with images from an action film: the killer’s knife, flashing beside his shrouded face, plunges in a frenzied swing, opening the young woman’s throat almost painlessly — a Tarantino-esque spasm of stylized violence. This is my cultural […]
Democrats are hurdling toward becoming the party of socialism, embracing the failed ideology right after voters made it clear in the 2024 elections that the party is too radical. Gallup found that capitalism has its lowest approval rating (54%) in the United States since 2010, the first time the polling outlet asked this question. That is being […]
An Israeli strike has taken out top Hamas leaders in Qatar. The strike is among the most significant operations in the two-year-long war that followed the Oct. 7 massacre. And its aftereffects will reverberate throughout the region and beyond. On Sept. 9, Israeli air strikes hit a compound in Doha where top Hamas apparatchiks were gathering. The […]
PITTSBURGH — “There should have been a primary.” Jo Jo Burgess was a delegate at the Democratic National Committee and a full-throated supporter of former Vice President Kamala Harris in the general election. He’s the mayor of Washington, Pennsylvania, a Democrat-leaning town in the middle of very Republican Washington County, in southwestern Pennsylvania. When asked […]
At this rate, with President Donald Trump being one of the most decisive presidents in history, statistics show that his endorsement could undoubtedly lead a candidate to victory. As Ian Vallencillo, commissioner of Sweetwater, Florida, told the Washington Examiner, Trump is one of “the most popular political figures,” stating that voters “overwhelmingly support Trump’s picks.” […]
Israel’s precise strike in the petrostate sheikdom of Qatar has reportedly killed a number of top Hamas warlords. And it happened only 23 months too late. Every one of the reported dead had been sanctioned by the U.S. government for terrorist activities. Each one of them, by any moral or legal understanding, was engaged in […]
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — Most of the houses on Summerfield Road in this Virginia suburb are Cape Cods, with a few McMansions mixed in. But the very last house is a two-story colonial that is now up for rent, now that it no longer operates as a whorehouse. Asian massage parlors where clientele can pay […]
To most Americans, colleges like Grand Canyon University look pretty benign. But not to the Federal Trade Commission. Until recently, the FTC looked at this Phoenix-based institution and many others like it and saw a big target. Fortunately, its yearslong assault against GCU seems to have failed. Last month, the FTC dropped its lawsuit against […]
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. Should we care here in America that the Brits and the […]
In the new issue of Harper’s magazine, a small article appears that claims Alger Hiss was innocent. Hiss, who died in 1996, was a high-ranking State Department official in the 1930s and ’40s. Hiss was also a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. This was proven not only when Hiss was identified as a spy by a […]
“You’re fired!” President Donald Trump’s famous line from The Apprentice has been making a comeback since he returned to office in January, but a few days ago, he took it a bit too far by calling for the removal of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook. Federal prosecutors are investigating the governor for alleged mortgage fraud, accusing her of improperly […]
During the 2016 election, establishment Republicans would say, “I’m not pro-Trump. I’m anti-anti-Trump.” On the one hand, President Donald Trump was not their guy. They made that abundantly clear. On the other hand, they recognized that the Democratic Party’s pathological hatred for the Bad Orange Man was and is an existential threat to the American Republic. The cure is […]
Before a local television station posted the shocking video of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Irnya Zarutska being stabbed in the neck and killed by repeat felon Decarlos Brown, Vi Lyles, the mayor of Charlotte, where the murder took place, said her city’s transit system was “by and large” safe and “we will never arrest our way […]
