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AARP doesn’t want Social Security fixed — it wants you scared and donating

Social Security, the bedrock of our nation’s retirement system, is projected to become insolvent in just six years, with benefit cuts of 22% if Congress doesn’t act. Social Security is barreling toward insolvency due to the fundamental imbalance between its incoming revenues and outgoing benefits. As our population ages and benefits cost more, the program’s […]

Trump isn’t on the ballot — but his power is

Republicans gathered in Dallas for an unusual mid-cycle convention to shore up the base ahead of November’s midterm elections. President Donald Trump headlined the event because he has the most to lose. He is not on the ballot, but his job is. And he knows it. In Dallas on Wednesday during his nearly two-hour speech, […]

The Houthis just handed Trump leverage over China. Here’s when he can use it

The fall of Mokha was a lesson for Riyadh about alliances: the Mecca pact produced a courier, America’s older allies produced restrictions on American access, and the only partnership that has actually fought Iran’s network this year has an American hand on it. This is the lesson for Washington, and it has a date on […]

Let’s not criminalize motherhood

Being a mother is one of the most rewarding jobs in the world. It is also exhausting and can be stressful, especially when raising five children. Mothers deserve some grace when deciding what is best for their sons and daughters. That is why the prosecution of a Virginia mother, Karyann Parkinson, is so disturbing. Parkinson […]

Deadly silence: The world can’t afford to ignore climate change much longer

Sixty years of inaction in Washington have not made climate change go away. Hushing won’t either. In the meantime, the American people, present and future, are paying an increasingly intolerable price. 

Congress faces frenzy of AI fears: ‘The monster is loose’

In today's issue: ▪ Calls for Congress to regulate AI ▪ Trump to remove tariffs on Irish whiskey ▪ Trump wants to keep a hand in Iran oil ▪ House GOP bets on Trump Congress returns this week to an eruption of fears about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) spurred by warnings from within the industry that...

It is now or never for the Clarity Act

Sen. Cynthia Lummis is urging congressional support for the bipartisan Clarity Act to establish cryptocurrency regulations and prevent companies from moving operations overseas.

Our media can’t even tell who is sympathetic anymore

Are we so far out of touch that now we offer political strategists, identity thieves, academic fraudsters and even actual robbers and murderers as the sympathetic face of the cause?

Compound in blueberries may help muscles burn fat, study finds

A natural compound found in blueberries and grapes helped muscle cells burn stored fat in lab tests, researchers found.

Two former senators looking to return face steep odds and seniority shuffle 

Two Senate candidates this year are hoping to do what only a handful of others have done in the last century: return to their old jobs in the upper chamber. Former Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and John E. Sununu (R-N.H.) are both running to win reelection to the Senate after absences. In Brown’s case, it’s...

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