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TRUMP’S REMARKABLE POLLING STABILITY. A new poll from the New York Times finds that President Donald Trump has a job approval rating of 43% and a disapproval rating of 54%. That was virtually identical to Trump’s 42% approval and 54% disapproval in the last Times poll, taken in late April.  A lot has happened in the last […]

Israeli airstrikes killed six people in Gaza on Friday, hours after Hamas partially agreed to a peace plan and after President Trump called on Israel to stop bombing the territory. One of the airstrikes killed four people in a house in Gaza City, NBC News reported. The other airstrikes killed two people in Khan Younis,...

Democratic candidate for Virginia’s attorney general, Jay Jones, is facing a firestorm after a series of 2022 text messages calling for the then-statehouse speaker to get "two bullets to the head" were leaked this week. “Three people, two bullets,” Jones said in a text to House Delegate Carrie Coyner (R) about former House Speaker Todd...

Louisiana should be leading the charge for American energy, not undermining it.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the Portland Police Department in Oregon, days after a conservative influencer was arrested amid a federal crime crackdown in the city. Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ's assistant attorney general for civil rights, "signed, sealed [and] delivered!" a letter to Portland police about the investigation on Friday, according to a...

A new study suggests generative AI hasn't had a major impact on U.S. jobs yet.

Zohran Mamdani appears to have a plan for leveling the playing fields in education. Faced with a huge number of students with comparably dismal scores in math, English, and science, Mamdani is going to bulldoze higher-achieving programs. It is a pledge that only Soviet central planner would relish. By eliminating gifted and talented program in...

Snap said users have saved more than 1 trillion Memories since the feature debuted.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday blasted Russia for a "savage" drone strike on a railway station overnight that injured dozens of people. Zelensky said the strike took place in the Sumy region, just northeast of Kyiv, and emergency personnel were already on the scene. At least 30 injuries have been identified, he added. "Preliminary...