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600 groups with $2B in revenue mobilize 3,000 May Day protests in a ‘red-blue’ alliance, probe finds

A network of about 600 groups, including communist organizations and Democratic Party committees, is mobilizing roughly 3,000 pro-socialist May Day events.

Morality and mortality in Jay McInerney’s new novel

Eight years after the publication of 1984’s Bright Lights, Big City, that riotous and audacious first novel about a twenty-something man crashing and burning in the glittering streets and shadier corners of Manhattan, Jay McInerney broadened his scope and produced a multistranded, multivoiced work. Published in 1992, Brightness Falls documented the charmed lives of New […]

America’s AI doomers are doing Beijing’s work

When the Chinese Communist Party’s English-language flagship, Global Times, lectures American readers about the “high energy consumption” of U.S. data centers, it isn’t because Beijing has developed a soft spot for our electric bills. It’s because every server farm we don’t build in Texas or Virginia is one China gets to build first. That line […]

Spanberger’s bad day in court

The Virginia Supreme Court has denied Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s attempt to certify the results of her redistricting constitutional amendment referendum, a procedural step Spanberger had scheduled for today. Now the court has more time to decide whether the governor violated the commonwealth’s Constitution in her mad dash to alter it. The arguments in Virginia’s […]

Nick at the bar is a friend of mine

Inland Ale Works is a great brewery in Cheney, Washington. Established in a remodeled auto shop, the whole place is decorated with photos of old Spokane, Washington, breweries and horse-drawn wagons loaded with beer barrels. There are ads for Rainier, National Bohemian, and Golden Age beers. I was there on Saturday to talk to my […]

600 groups with $2B in revenue mobilize 3,000 May Day protests in a ‘red-blue’ alliance, probe finds

A network of about 600 groups, including communist organizations and Democratic Party committees, is mobilizing roughly 3,000 pro-socialist May Day events.

Vance, Cruz, head to Iowa on 2026 missions as 2028 GOP race to succeed Trump heats up

Vice President JD Vance and Sen. Ted Cruz make stops in Iowa this week, fueling 2028 presidential speculation ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

Can America trust AI? David Sacks makes the case.

Can America trust AI? David Sacks makes the case. lead image

Wyoming official faces backlash after posting ‘hang bad judges’ comment on abortion ruling

Wyoming city councilman Troy Bray draws criticism after posting that the state should "hang bad judges" following a ruling blocking an abortion ban.

DOJ sues New Jersey over laws giving illegal aliens in-state tuition, says citizens treated as ‘second-class’

The DOJ sued New Jersey over laws allowing illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition and financial aid, arguing they discriminate against citizens.

Hawley champions GUARD Act as heartbroken families say AI chatbots allegedly pushed teens to self-harm

Parents testified before a Senate committee that AI chatbots manipulated their children into self-harm, fueling passage of the GUARD Act.

Homeland Security shutdown ends hours before workers would have gone without pay again

The 76-day shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security -- the longest funding lapse in U.S. history -- is over.

Hegseth backtracks on war-funding estimates at Senate hearing

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that the conflict in Iran was seen by President Trump as a historic "opportunity" -- and tap-danced away from his previous statements that he sought $200 billion in supplemental funding for the war.

Trump gives go-ahead to major new Canada-U.S. oil pipeline

President Donald Trump granted a key approval Thursday for a major new oil pipeline from Canada into the U.S. that's been dubbed "Keystone Light" over its similarities to a contentious project blocked by the Biden administration.

FEMA workers who sounded alarm over nation’s disaster preparedness reinstated after 8 months

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has moved to address staffing issues that triggered concern and uncertainty among and about its workforce, including reinstating employees put on leave for publicly opposing agency policies, and extending contracts for some workers whose terms were set to expire soon.

Congress passes 45-day extension of federal surveillance law as debate over protections continues

Congress punted its deadline to reauthorize a foreign surveillance law for the second time on Thursday as lawmakers continue to debate privacy protections for Americans' data caught in the spying operations.

Georgia woman removed from Delta flight for refusing to get off the phone

A Delta Air Lines flight had to return to the gate in Miami after a Georgia woman refused to get off her phone while the plane taxied.

Republican senators eye vote on authorizing further military force in Iran

President Trump's legal timeline for engaging in hostilities with Iran without congressional approval is running out, and some GOP lawmakers are ready to have their say.

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