As the Supreme Court closed its latest term, it did so by denying justice to Native Americans—yet again. With its refusal to hear Apache Stronghold v. United States, the court effectively allowed a foreign-owned mining company to desecrate a sacred Apache site — Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, or Oak Flat — opening the door for it to...
A conference that has struck fear into the conservative old guard and served as an ideas lab for policies now being implemented in the Trump administration kicks off Tuesday. Now in its fifth year, the National Conservatism Conference is not a flashy rally like the Conservative Political Action Conference or events that Turning Point USA packs with young people and...
Houston, TX (AP) - An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in Houston after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away, police said Sunday. The boy had been ringing doorbells as a prank late Saturday evening, the Houston Police Department said in a statement. Commonly referred to as “ding...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned his Democratic colleagues in a letter Tuesday of the growing chance of a government shutdown, declaring that “Republicans are once again threatening to go-at-it-alone” by not negotiating with Democrats on a stopgap spending measure. Schumer said the Trump administration is provoking a standoff over government funding by moving...
Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed his “old friend” Russian President Vladimir Putin to China this week as the two leaders, along with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, are set to attend a massive military parade in Beijing. Putin called Xi his “dear friend” and argued that the relationship between Russia and China, which has deepened...
The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 7-4 Friday that the president’s aggressive imposition of unilateral taxes on imports is “invalid as contrary to law.” Trump has claimed sweeping authority to impose, remove, and modify at will tariffs on any country in the world all under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act which, as the court notes, has never...
Elite Army units bypass traditional procurement by using credit cards to test new equipment while the service shifts posture toward countering China in the Indo-Pacific.