President Donald Trump made history last Thursday by becoming the first known president to acknowledge St. Joseph’s Day and recognize its cultural significance. St. Joseph’s Day is a major feast day in Catholicism and Western Christianity, celebrated each year on March 19. The day honors St. Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary and the earthly, […]
Before the dust even settled from the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps began firing thousands of missiles and drones across the Middle East at not just military sites, but at embassies, international airports, and hotels. Several of the U.S.’s closest Arab partners in the […]
Artificial intelligence is about to become the most valuable tool in American agriculture. The question is who builds it, who controls it, and whether the United States will lead or hand another strategic industry to a foreign adversary. At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Jeff Rowe, CEO of foreign-controlled Syngenta Group, argued in […]
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Federal Aviation Administrator Bryan Bedford will address reporters on Monday afternoon after a fatal crash involving a jet and a fire truck on a runway at LaGuardia International Airport in New York. The aircraft was attempting to land when it struck the emergency vehicle, which was traveling across the runway...
Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) on Sunday defended a $200 billion funding request price tag for the U.S. conflict against Iran, calling it “America First.” “Well, it's a lot of money, but it's going right into rebuilding our stockpiles, our own munitions. It's in America's best interest that we reshore all of these defense manufacturing jobs...
President Trump told Republican lawmakers on Monday to not “worry about Easter” in order to stay in Washington to vote on a bill that ties Department of Homeland Security funding with voter identification requirements in the SAVE Act. Trump said that he’s “requesting that the Republican Senators do that immediately” and joked that lawmakers shouldn’t...
President Trump indicated on Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the first top administration official to back the U.S. military attacks against Iran. "Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up and you said let's do it because you can't let them have a nuclear weapon,” the president said at a...
A handful of journalists have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for allegedly seeking to use the Voice of America (VOA) to promote propaganda and censor news coming out of the White House. Two VOA journalists alongside two past reporters signed on to a Monday complaint in the U.S. District Court for D.C. with...
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Monday that mail-in ballots received after polls close on Election Day should be counted, posing major implications for November’s midterm elections. Mississippi defended its statute that allows a five-day grace period for ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward. More than a dozen states have similar laws. "We don't...