New York City is amid a crime wave. In 2022, major crimes rose by 22%, and likely the largest contributor to the spike was shoplifting — which shot up an astounding 44%.
Germany’s very public agonizing over whether to provide its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, or allow other states that had purchased Leopard 2s to send theirs, graphically exposed Berlin’s continued confusion about its status as a NATO member. While there is momentary relief that, at last, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government committed to providing the armor Ukraine requested, it did so only after President Joe Biden also agreed to send roughly a battalion of America’s Abrams tanks. While Biden’s decision was correct on its own merits, it was hardly a matter of strategy and more a matter of horse-trading to persuade Berlin’s decidedly reluctant leadership.
At a time when denominational arguments about Christian nationalism, patriarchy, same-sex marriage, and abortion dominate the religious landscape, Tim Keller stayed focused on the point of it all: the hope of eternal life.
A woman wearing a gown bearing the colors of Ukraine’s flag covered herself in fake blood on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. The unidentified woman was seen in videos and photos of the incident ascending the steps on the red carpet at the Sunday premiere of “Acide” at the acclaimed film festival...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in a commencement speech Sunday at Morehouse College urged graduates to celebrate Black history in order to save it. “History will save you, and help you save us,” he said in the commencement address to the historically Black college. “Those who yearn to destroy history will not stop at our history...
A Russian revolutionary group opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to have liberated a town in Russia near the border with Ukraine. The rebel faction, the Free Russia Legion, said it had liberated the town of Kozinka in the Belgorod region and its forces were now entering the town of Grayvoron along with another...
A judge on Monday entered not guilty pleas for the man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death last year. Bryan Kohberger, 28, has been charged with burglary and four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the November 2022 deaths. He declined to enter pleas on his own, and the judge...
If American leaders are even remotely serious when they point to long-term competition from revisionist China, they cannot possibly entertain a default on the debt.
Dozens of transgender children, teens and their families from more than 17 states gathered in Washington on Monday to celebrate their identities at a prom organized specifically for trans youth. Chase Strangio, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and one of the prom’s organizers, described the event as a “needed disruption”...