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America’s shifting baselines are a threat to democracy and governance

Generation after generation, the baseline for what's healthy and acceptable continually erodes. 

Kim calls on House to pass Senate-backed TSA funding bill

Democratic Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) said Sunday that if the Senate-backed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reached the House floor, it would pass. “What we know is that we have a bill that passed the Senate unanimously, a bipartisan piece of legislation that sits over at the House of Representatives. If...

Lankford: ‘We should never get to a moment we’re not paying federal workers’

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Sunday pushed for federal workers to be paid following recent tensions over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Congress. “We, by the way, I've got a bill that ends government shutdowns forever. You and I have talked about it before, this is a bipartisan bill, I believe...

Newest Buc-ee’s to open soon: Where are other locations planned?

Five Buc-ee's locations are expected to open this year, with even more on the way.

Homan says ‘we’ll see’ if ICE officers leave airports once TSA workers get paid

White House border czar Tom Homan expressed uncertainty Sunday at whether federal immigration officers will leave airports once Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees receive their delayed paychecks.  “We’ll see. It depends [on] how many TSA agents come back to work, how many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plans [on] coming back to...

How the return to the moon is different this time

What if Obama had taken a different tack?

Pope Leo: God ‘does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war’

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday said that God “does not listen to the prayers” of individuals who start wars, as the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran continues. “Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” the first American pope, citing a Bible...

In 2026, both parties are dodging the truth on taxes

Tax reform should make life easier, not more complicated.

4 more states will add restrictions on SNAP purchases in April

The movement to ban SNAP recipients from buying soda, candy and energy drinks with their benefits is growing.

Jet fuel spikes as airlines warn supplies could run dry within weeks

U.S. jet fuel prices jumped from $2.17 to $4.57 per gallon in weeks, prompting airline cuts and raising concerns over shortages and higher fares.

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