Let's all send good tidings to the Heritage Foundation, which turned 50 years old on Feb. 16. The celebration of that auspicious event, however, will be marked by an timely two-day leadership summit which begins Thursday and concludes Friday with an evening gala at a glittering resort a few miles south of the nation's capital.

A ban on dozens of semi-automatic rifles cleared the Washington state Legislature on Wednesday and the governor is expected to sign it into law.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unveiled the House GOP's 320-page proposal on Wednesday to raise the federal debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion in exchange for slashing federal spending, an opening bid for debt talks with the White House that have yet to materialize.

President Biden tore into House Republicans Wednesday over their proposed spending cuts, accusing them of risking economic devastation unless he caves to their "whacko notions" to raise the debt ceiling.

More than two years ago, Vice President Kamala Harris launched her "root causes" strategy to stem the flow of illegal migration from Central America into the United States.