When we return to work after the Labor Day weekend, the hope is that America will start paying attention to the stark choice offered at the midterm elections in...
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...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claimed that incarcerating violent criminals is "racist" and "immoral" — and that it won't solve the crime problem in his...
Russia’s major overnight missile strike on Kyiv reflects Vladimir Putin’s desire to squeeze Ukraine and to divide the United States and Europe in their respective policies towards Russia. The attacks, which predominantly targeted civilian residential apartment buildings, killed at least 21 people, including four children. At least one strike badly damaged the European Union office […]
Artificial intelligence companies rushed out their chatbots for mass public use with little regard for how they would be used. This reckless push into an AI future is full of insufficient safeguards and disastrous consequences. On Tuesday, Anthropic released a report saying that a hacker used its Claude Code chatbot to identify vulnerable companies, hack […]
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. Whether President Donald Trump can wrest control of the Federal Reserve […]
The politics of artificial intelligence are quickly becoming a contest over regulation, with lawmakers and agencies competing to demonstrate vigilance rather than focusing on enabling innovation. The Senate’s decision to strip a decadelong federal moratorium on state AI rules from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was a case in point. In one day, Washington, […]
This op-ed first appeared in The Gazette, the Washington Examiner’s Colorado Springs-based sister publication. The national conversation turns once again to marijuana and a potential federal rescheduling from Schedule I to Schedule II, or even lower. Big Pot’s new ad blitz, sponsored in part by Big Pot’s new investors — Big Tobacco/Big Pharma/Big Alcohol — […]
Close your eyes for a moment and consider the following: A deranged maniac sprays bullets into a Planned Parenthood. Or a mosque. Or a gay nightclub. The killer displays right-wing slogans all over his weaponry. This includes a bullet-holed target board with an image directly related to the target site: an aborted fetus, a crescent […]
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. President Donald Trump is being denounced for deploying the National Guard […]
Earlier this year, the Trump administration wisely dropped a Biden administration lawsuit against Zelle. But now Letitia James, the far-left attorney general of New York, has revived the bogus Biden claims in a new lawsuit against the money transfer network. If she prevails, the biggest beneficiaries will be fraudsters and scammers. It’s striking that James […]
Earlier this year, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that President Donald Trump had a new strategy for funding the federal government: an External Revenue Service. “[The President’s] plan is very simple: to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and let all the outsiders pay,” he told Fox News in February. The “outsiders,” according to Lutnick, were foreign nations, […]
Statesmen and diplomats are quick to claim success, but few acknowledge their role in failures. To date, the State Department has not issued any report on how the United States lost Turkey, once among its most trusted NATO partners. There is plenty of blame to go around when it comes to Turkey’s transition from ally […]
