After the Port Arthur mass shooting of 1996, during which 35 people were murdered and 23 wounded in the deadliest massacre in modern Australian history, Australia enforced what was celebrated by anti-gun advocates as the gold standard of gun laws, “among the most stringent — and effective — in the world,” as the Guardian put […]
U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick traveled to Brussels recently to meet with their counterparts to finalize the trade deal framework announced over the summer. While the outline of the deal remains promising, our European allies are thinly masking their latest attempt to target U.S. companies with regulatory complexity in hopes […]
The murder of 16 people at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney‘s Bondi Beach was not the only violence committed by Islamists last weekend. An ISIS member murdered two Iowa National Guard members in Syria, and Muslims attacked a Hanukkah concert in Amsterdam. Meanwhile, in Germany, five men, all Muslim migrants, were arrested after plotting to […]
Congressional lawmakers on Tuesday are scrambling to hammer out plans to address rising insurance premium costs before their holiday recess, as the expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies looms large. The House Rules committee meets at 2 p.m., with the GOP leadership health plan on its agenda. Moderate Republicans will push for an amendment that...
Despite President Trump's claims of an "A+++++" economy, rising bankruptcy rates among businesses, farmers, and health care companies indicate that the economy is facing significant challenges that need to be addressed.
Former first lady Michelle Obama said she was supposed to see acclaimed actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, just hours after they were found stabbed to death in their home in Los Angeles on Sunday. "We’ve known them for many, many years, and we were supposed to be seeing them that night....
Rather than assuming that anyone called to testify against a defendant in open court can do so truthfully and effectively, courts should adopt a more nuanced and contextual approach.
Activists and commentators on the right are facing a reckoning over how to handle conspiracy theorists as podcaster Candace Owens and others purportedly digging into the assassination of Charlie Kirk have directed their fire at their friends and former colleagues at Turning Point USA. The sense among conservatives in the immediate aftermath of Kirk’s assassination just more than three months...
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said Monday that President Trump should not have weighed in on the deaths of acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, who were found with stab wounds over the weekend at their home in Los Angeles. Kennedy joined a growing chorus of Republicans pushing back on...