President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan will visit the East and West coasts of the United States next week, with a meeting between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Tsai likely.
A record-high number of immigrants died trying to cross our southwest border last year, and another 40 died this week in a Mexican detention center in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE (MAYBE) TRUMP INDICTMENT? It looks like there has been another delay, possibly a long one, in the local New York prosecutor's drive to indict former President Donald Trump. After great expectations 11 days ago — Trump's statement on Saturday, March 18, that he expected to be arrested the following Tuesday — the grand jury convened by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has heard additional witnesses in the Trump matter and has also moved on to other, unrelated cases without taking action on Trump. Now, there are reports the grand jury will not consider Trump for the rest of this week — and possibly most of next month.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) applauded the Senate's efforts to pass legislation that ended the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force. It officially repeals the congressional authorizations for the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War and is a step in restoring the authority of Article I Section 8 of the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to initiate military conflict. It passed with a vote of 66-30.
On March 14, a Russian fighter jet crashed into a U.S. Reaper MQ-9 drone operating over the Black Sea, destroying it. That drone cost American taxpayers roughly $18 million to $32 million and was deployed in international airspace to monitor Russian forces occupying Ukraine. Russia had no legitimate excuse for downing the drone and offered no apology for doing so. On the contrary, Moscow awarded medals to the pilots involved. Unfortunately, President Joe Biden has responded with unequivocal weakness to this aggression.
Just hours after a transgender person murdered six people in a school shooting at a Christian school, the press secretary for the Democratic governor of Arizona promoted gun violence against “transphobes.” The response from establishment media has been nothing more than a collective shrug.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he plans to block a move by fellow Republican Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) to pass a bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S., arguing the bill would limit free speech and emulate censorship from the Chinese government. “If you don’t like TikTok or Facebook or YouTube, don’t use them,”...
The House Budget Committee held a hearing examining the “fiscal state of the union” on Wednesday, as both sides remain far apart over how to avoid a national default later this year. During the hearing, members took turns addressing a group of high school students between questions to a spate of experts on the witness...