The most important healthcare document released this year wasn’t another regulation, another inspector general report, or another congressional hearing. It was a list of more than 500 hospitals spread across 45 states and the District of Columbia, which the Trump administration identified as failing to comply with the hospital price transparency rule. Five years after […]
Over three consecutive days this month, Romanian F-16s shot down three drones that had entered the country’s airspace — the first such engagements over Romanian territory. One appears to have been an Iranian-designed Shahed of the kind Russia uses against Ukraine. Bucharest summoned Moscow’s ambassador and acted under NATO’s air-policing command. The episode answered the […]
The stream that coursed over Maily Kocinski’s Wisconsin family farm for 47 years dried up after construction began on Meta’s AI data center in nearby Beaver Dam. When it returned, it ran murky white. The state’s natural resources department left her repeated requests for help unanswered. Private testing found heavy metals in the stream, and […]
On June 19, 2026, Argentine police arrested Iranian national Sajjad Samiei Naserani in Buenos Aires after the Supreme Court upheld his four-and-a-half-year sentence for criminal association and falsifying public documents. Seven years earlier, Naserani and his partner entered the South American country using Israeli passports stolen two months prior. Although an Interpol warning initially flashed, […]
On the Caspian Sea, the largest lake on Earth, a war that began in a Ukrainian wheat field met a war that began over an Iranian centrifuge. On Saturday, by Ukrainian and Iranian accounts, Ukrainian drones struck an Iranian cargo ship, named by Tehran as the Anna, and a Russian warship operating alongside it. Iran […]
In the days following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led invasion of Israel, a particularly memorable headline from the Babylon Bee exclaimed that “Ivy League Student Leaves Lecture on Microaggressions to Attend ‘Kill the Jews’ Rally.” Someone should alert the leadership of the American Psychiatric Association that the site is satire and not a manual. Back […]
HARGEISA, Somalia — The desire to embrace cause-and-effect rationality to blame President Donald Trump for Iran’s ongoing aggression gets two things wrong. First, the notion that the Islamic Republic would remain cautious and restrained had the United States and Israel not killed supreme leader Ali Khamenei on the first day of Operation Epic Fury ignores […]
Senate Judiciary Committee members will deliberate and vote on Thursday on acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the permanent position. Because the nominee lacks critical qualifications to serve as the nation’s chief law enforcement official, members should reject his nomination. Since March 2025, during Blanche’s tenure as deputy attorney general under […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee is taking up Todd Blanche‘s nomination to be attorney general of the United States. Having served as lawyers on that committee as well as for two different attorneys general appointed by President Donald Trump, we agree that he is exceptionally well-qualified to lead the Department of Justice. Blanche should be voted […]