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Trump’s data center push fractures Congress as local anger explodes: ‘Grasping at straws’

Democratic lawmakers push to restrict data centers over water use and electricity bills while Republicans highlight AI race benefits and local control.

Voters have a blunt message for Trump about his idea to dole out $5,000 checks

President Donald Trump's $5,000 dividend check proposal drew sharp reactions from voters, with some calling it a publicity stunt unlikely to pass Congress.

‘Profoundly unhelpful’: Texas Republicans worry Bo French’s xenophobic posts make a tough year worse

Texas Republicans were already fretting about slipping support with voters of color. Then Bo...

Raucous primary season reaches final act in deep-blue stronghold, kickstarting sprint to November

Delaware's final 2026 primary caps a season where Donald Trump's endorsements dominated GOP races and progressive socialists ousted incumbents.

Surrogate who refused abortion asks SCOTUS to intervene as baby could be moved out of Texas

Surrogate McKenna West asked the Supreme Court for an emergency administrative stay, fearing the newborn could be moved from Texas to California.

China will struggle to survive a protracted battle with the US and the West

This moment transcends tariff rates or economic deals: The US and the CCP expect the rest of the world to pick sides. Time for President...

Trump needs to end his war with Jerome Powell now — one way or another

On Monday, furious over Jerome Powell's refusal to budge on lower interest rates, President Trump took to TruthSocial to call the Fed chair a...

Trump needs to make a trade deal FAST to calm the markets and prove his tariffs are working

President Donald Trump can prove his hefty, across-the-board tariffs are working — and calm the markets — by beginning to secure trade deals with...

A Narnia of ‘creative morality’

One way to observe how modern society interacts with religion is to look at its dealings with authority figures. An upcoming adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, part of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series, presents an opportunity to do so in the possible casting of the character Aslan as female. In the story, the lion Aslan is […]

The essential mystery of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case

THE ESSENTIAL MYSTERY OF THE KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA CASE. After all the talking and arguing about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal border-crosser and alleged gang member deported by the United States and now imprisoned in El Salvador, there is still a fundamental unanswered question about the case: Why is he imprisoned in El Salvador? “We deport […]

Pope Francis was meant to modernize Church, but tradition is what’s needed now

When the College of Cardinals chose Argentina’s Jorge Maria Bergoglio as successor to the retiring Pope Benedict XVI, they made a guess about where...

Pope Francis wasn’t so progressive, Harvard slow on Jew-hate and other commentary

Pope Francis likely “will be widely remembered as a man whom the US media desperately wanted to be a progressive ‘Buddy Christ.’ ”

Even a $1 billion funding freeze hasn’t stopped Cornell from inviting a virulent antisemitic musical artist

A student group has invited an unapologetically pro-genocide artists to perform. What is wrong with the Ivies?

The markets won’t let Trump fire Jerome Powell

Whatever hope investors mustered over the weekend that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had made progress in the White House‘s trade negotiations with Japan quickly dissipated as traders tuned into the president’s latest tirade on Truth Social. “‘Preemptive Cuts’ in Interest Rates are being called for by many,” President Donald Trump wrote just minutes after Monday’s […]

Government unions win again in Oakland mayor race

Just two years after successfully electing a 37-year-old with no experience outside city government as mayor of Oakland, government unions secured another victory for their preferred candidate this month, ensuring 79-year-old Barbara Lee won’t touch their pensions or force them to show up to work. That 37-year-old, Sheng Thao, has since been recalled after the […]

American manufacturer welcomes level playing field against China

SAVANNAH, Georgia — Not all tariff stories are the same. Just over 12 years ago, while on active duty, Tyler Merritt founded Nine Line Apparel out of a garage, creating a brand of clothing dedicated to honoring service members. It soon became a smash hit that didn’t resonate with just veterans and their families, but […]

The main reason Trump’s reannexation of the Panama Canal would backfire

PANAMA CITY, Panama—When President Theodore Roosevelt formulated plans for the Panama Canal, there was no Panama. The country was still part of the Republic of Colombia despite bouts of on-again, off-again autonomy and separatism. When Colombia rejected proposals for the canal, Roosevelt threw U.S. support to Panamanian independence or, as Panamanians refer to it, separation […]

Wisconsin continues to turn its governor into an emperor

Wisconsin’s state government is profoundly unserious. State Democrats have decided they are fine with the governor being an emperor with magical powers to rewrite legislation to fit his agenda. The Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed this view, upholding a “veto” by Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) on an education bill. In 2023, the Wisconsin legislature passed a […]

Sean Duffy is right: Congress and the FAA must expedite air traffic overhaul

From the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk to NASA’s putting the first man on the moon, America has been a beacon of aviation excellence and ingenuity for decades. However, America’s aviation infrastructure and air traffic control technologies need a substantial upgrade after a serious decline of our once cutting-edge, illustrious industry into an antiquated, dilapidated system. Air traffic […]

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