Meta said it closed thousands of China-linked accounts on its platforms that were participating in the "largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world."
“These rich men north of Richmond, Lord knows they just wanna have total control.” So goes the refrain of singer and songwriter Oliver Anthony’s suddenly famous song. “Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do, and they don’t think you know, but I know that you do.”
College tuition prices are at an all-time high, burdening families with debt for decades. Student loan forgiveness has been hotly debated in the public sphere and Congress. Very rarely, if ever, are colleges and universities ever blamed for their roles in the tuition and student loan debt crisis.
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan ordered the reflagging of nearly a dozen Kuwaiti tankers. Iran had begun attacking Kuwait’s tankers to restrict shipping in international waters and to coerce the emirate to cease its trade with and loans to Iraq. Reagan ignored criticism that reflagging the tankers could embroil the United States in war because he understood at stake were not only Kuwait’s oil exports but also freedom of navigation and the rules-based order. True, skirmishes did occur, but once the ayatollahs understood Reagan stood firm, Iranian forces suspended their provocations.
The State Department urged all U.S. citizens to leave Haiti on Wednesday, strengthening previous warnings over safety concerns in the country. “Given the current security situation and infrastructure challenges, U.S. citizens in Haiti should depart Haiti as soon as possible via commercial or private transport,” the department said. Conditions in the Caribbean country, and especially...
Sexual abuse charges against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick were dismissed Wednesday after a Massachusetts judge ruled the former Catholic Church official is not competent to stand trial. McCarrick, 93, was charged with sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy at a wedding reception in 1974 outside Boston. A Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor of psychiatry...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appeared to freeze up at the podium while taking questions in Kentucky on Wednesday, the second time in recent weeks that he paused while talking to reporters. During a gaggle in Covington, Ky., a reporter asked McConnell, 81, for his thoughts about running for reelection in 2026. The Senate...