On Tuesday, Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of Brian Thompson, appeared in a Manhattan courtroom for another hearing. This time, the judge tossed out the terrorism charges for Mangione’s alleged crimes. Outside the courthouse, a crowd of Mangione supporters gathered with “Free Luigi” written on T-shirts or signs, joyfully reacting to the news. Elsewhere around the country, Americans have gathered […]
On Sept. 13, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Response Adam Boehler and former senior diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad met with Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Motaqi in Kabul. The Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted about the meeting on social media, proclaiming that the assembly discussed “ways to develop bilateral relations between the two countries, issues concerning […]
It would be hard for the labor market numbers to be more equal. Of all employees in America in August, 49.9% were women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s nonfarm payroll data. Women’s wages in the past year have grown by 3.6%, compared to 3.5% for men, according to Manhattan Institute economist Allison Schrager. […]
Two 12-year-old girls in Waukesha, Wisconsin, lured their friend into the woods to murder her over 10 years ago. They stabbed Payton Leutner 19 times, according to police, to appease a fictional horror character of online lore named Slenderman. The crime was shocking because these were suburban girls motivated to kill by basically nothing. A […]
Democrats have routinely championed themselves as advocates of Ukraine, women, refugees, immigrants, and female victims of male violence. Given this activism, one would think an incident that checked all these boxes would have the utmost support from Democrats. However, the killing of Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, by a man on a train in […]
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory panel is meeting for the second day Friday to vote on guidance for the Hepatitis B and COVID-19 vaccines for children. The 12-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), in its first meeting on Thursday since Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
Speaker Mike Johnson is ready to bring a continuing resolution (CR) to avert a shutdown to the House floor on Friday, before the chamber leaves for a recess that stretches beyond the Oct. 1 government funding deadline. Democrats have vowed to vote against the funding bill, demanding restoration of Medicaid support and action to extend...
It is exceedingly difficult to comprehend why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an airstrike on a group of Hamas leaders meeting in Doha. These men were negotiating with representatives of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, to bring a halt to the conflict in Gaza. And the Mossad had refused to mount a ground operation to...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg weighed in on former Vice President Harris’s assertion in her new book that picking him as her running mate would be “too risky,” saying he was "surprised." “Well, I was surprised when I read that — I just believe in giving Americans more credit," Buttigieg said Thursday in an interview...
It took Democrats until the spring and summer of 2024 to get serious about unwinding the excesses of the opening phase of Joe Biden’s presidency. And they unwound as hard and fast as a deep-sea fisherman’s reel after a tarpon hit the line. The administration changed course on fossil fuels, student loans and, most notably,...