Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday he would push a new requirement that the Federal Reserve's regional bank presidents live in their districts for at least three years before taking office, a move that could give the White House more power over the independent agency.

The United States will restrict visas for Nigerians and their family members responsible for mass killings and violence against Christians, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday.

The U.S. government spent more money on its ambitious but ultimately futile project to create a stable and democratic Afghanistan than it did under the post-World War II Marshall Plan, which rehabilitated more than a dozen European countries ravaged by conflict.

The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena Wednesday compelling testimony from Jack Smith, the former special counsel who pursued prosecutions against President Trump.

U.S. President Donald Trump has called Somali immigrants living in the United States "garbage" and wants them to leave, claiming without evidence that "they contribute nothing."

Obamacare's premium tax credit is plagued with fraud, Congress' chief watchdog said Wednesday, erecting new hurdles for Democrats who have made expanding the program a red line -- and even forced a government shutdown over the issue.

Former President Joe Biden perfectly demonstrated the folly of liberal diversity, equity, and inclusion policies when he hired Karine Jean-Pierre as his White House press secretary. Jean-Pierre was not fit for the job, everyone admits today. Her promotion to a job for which she was clearly unqualified pokes a hole in many liberal arguments for […]

Former Army helicopter pilot Matt Van Epps bucked the recent trend of right-wing electoral disasters on Tuesday, defeating Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn in the special House election for my district, Tennessee‘s 7th Congressional District, after Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) announced his resignation this summer. Amid the bizarre pattern of nationalizing local politics, middle Tennessee […]

Shortly after Republican candidate Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn in an off-year special House election in Tennessee, media in Washington, D.C., immediately began the time-honored tradition of hyperanalyzing the outcome to predict the fortunes of political parties.  These elections, though, rarely tell us anything useful. In 2023, Democrats won off-year races in Virginia, […]

California‘s first-in-the-nation Fast Food Council is another one of its run-of-the-mill duds, proving that the state’s obsession with bureaucracy for bureaucracy’s sake is suffocating California taxpayers and businesses. The council, designed to micromanage regulations of the fast-food industry (including minimum wage hikes), has not had a leader since May, when Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) appointed its chairman […]