In the late 1980s and early 1990s, things were about as bad as they could get in New York City. Roughly 2,000 residents were dying in homicides every year, far more than double the per capita rate of the United States as a whole. Public spaces, from the busy streets of downtown Manhattan to the […]
In the era of peak Oscars, the movies commemorated were, at worst, honorably decent and, at best, the sort of sumptuously mounted, inoffensively impressive super-spectacles that the industry had good reason to be proud of: Lawrence of Arabia, Patton, Amadeus, The Last Emperor, The English Patient, and, inevitably but justifiably, Titanic. By the same token, […]
There’s a civilization north of the American border. Even among those who know of it, this “Canada” tends to be enigmatic. It is a place bigger by land mass than any country in the world apart from Russia and with a population smaller than Yemen’s, a place where the primary language is English but also […]
Will Trumpworld become Trump’s world? The domestic trifecta is attained, and the battle for the bureaucracy is joined. Donaldus Maximus turns to the far provinces of the empire: to Canada, Britain, and Gaul. He eyes the wild places beyond the walls and the water: Greenland and, again, Canada. He looks to the restive borderlands between […]
CBS News’ parent company Paramount filed a pair of motions in district court to dismiss President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit stemming from the “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Harris right before the 2024 presidential election. One of two motions, both filed in U.S. district court for the Northern District of Texas on Thursday,...
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to create a government reserve of bitcoin along with a "digital asset stockpile" in the administration's latest embrace of the cryptocurrency industry. According to the order, the U.S. government will use the bitcoin already seized by federal law enforcement while disrupting financial crimes to establish the reserve....
Former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding was added to the FBI’s 10 most wanted list on Thursday for allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking network. Authorities have accused him of shipping hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States. Wedding is a Canadian...
SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded minutes after liftoff, with debris reaching Philadelphia and flights being delayed in a couple of states, including Florida. This was the rocket’s eighth test flight. Similarly to the previous attempt, it ended in the 400-foot-tall rocket disintegrating Thursday. It appeared some of the engines had failed and the rocket was spinning out...
President Donald Trump said he expects a report next week detailing the two assassination attempts on his life in 2024, and he may release it to the public.
The House voted Thursday to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Tex., for interrupting President Trump's Joint Address to Congress – but some of his colleagues think they should go further.