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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The U.S. State Department has expressed its displeasure about Ukraine's recent attacks on the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea that have impacted U.S. oil interests in Kazakhstan, Kyiv's chief envoy to Washington said on Tuesday.
A former Yosemite National Park ranger axed after flying a trans pride flag there is suing the Interior Department, claiming the dismissal violated the First Amendment.
More than a year after a mid-air collision at Washington's Reagan National Airport killed 67 people, House lawmakers Tuesday narrowly blocked a Senate-passed safety aviation bill they say fell short of fixing the causes of the deadly crash.
The gold medal-winning U.S. men's hockey team arrived at the White House on Tuesday hours before President Trump's State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol.
In President Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night, he is expected to announce a negotiation with Big Tech for the firms to bear more responsibility for the energy cost burden in areas where new data centers are built.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic's CEO a Friday deadline to open the company's artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing its government contract, according to a person familiar with their meeting.
As GOP momentum builds to enact a federal voter ID law, a key Republican is pushing for broader changes than the House-passed SAVE America Act would install.
President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech Tuesday focuses on economic wins, with guests ranging from everyday Americans to Olympic champions and crime victims' families.
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump led to the reinstatement of 56 Coast Guard members removed under former President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Political drama unfolds as Texas GOP rivals Ken Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, both seek President Donald Trump's endorsement in their contentious Senate primary battle.
