Bill Gates will appear Wednesday before a congressional panel investigating the Jeffrey Epstein files, becoming the latest powerful figure linked to the disgraced financier to testify.

The race to dominate artificial intelligence is no longer just about algorithms, it is about energy. Let’s be frank — compute is power, and power is now the decisive constraint. In that equation, Norway, Finland, and the Nordics writ large are quietly positioning themselves as one of the most strategically important countries in the global […]

President Donald Trump is the best leader of the United States that Israel has ever had. He vastly outstrips Former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who smiled while they worked a knife into the back of the Jewish state. Dwight D. Eisenhower was even worse, far worse. He bullied the Israeli military into returning […]

We are now in June, which is the start of an often-newsworthy period: hurricane season. Recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual start-of-season forecast. This year, forecasters predict a below-normal Atlantic hurricane season, with one to three major hurricanes and up to 14 named storms in total. That does not mean you […]

On June 1, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev posted a framed order President Donald Trump gave him waiving Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act. Essentially, Trump’s waiver allows Azerbaijan to purchase American weaponry. In 1992, Congress passed the Freedom Support Act to help the newly independent states that emerged from the Soviet Union’s collapse build […]

Earlier this month, the Trump administration gave America some excellent news. It lowered tariffs from 25% to 15% on some aluminum, steel, and copper, plus products made from them. The proclamation cited the importance of these goods to national security and American manufacturing. This move deserves praise because, as we’ve seen, tariffs raise costs by […]

For more than a decade, American businesses have been calling on Congress to pick a lane on data privacy: a clear, national framework. Congress failed to pass a workable approach, so states stepped in, and most have taken a constructive approach. But right now, nearly half of Americans still have no comprehensive privacy protections, and […]

President Donald Trump has made a mess of what was one of his strongest policies in winning the presidential election in 2024. Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s SWAT team approach to deportation created mass disturbances and protests that resulted in deadly violence. Trump’s approval on the issue has collapsed, along with Hispanic voting support. […]