Thousands of teenagers from more than a dozen countries, many standing on their chairs in a cavernous convention hall, screamed and cheered as Josh Shapiro took the stage.
U.S. stocks are falling Monday after President Donald Trump took little time to ramp up his newest tariffs, but Wall Street is remaining much more calm than it did during last year's tariff- and panic-driven swings.
A trio of Senate Democrats is calling for the government to start refunding roughly $175 billion in tariff revenues that the Supreme Court ruled were collected because of an illegal set of orders by President Donald Trump.
A TOUGH IMMIGRATION CASE. Two U.S. senators and two members of the House from Arizona are pressing the Trump administration to intervene in the deportation case of a restaurant owner in the Phoenix area. As sometimes happens in these stories, there has been a lot of heart-tugging rhetoric. But sometimes a heart-tugging story is not exactly […]
With the 2026 Winter Olympics coming to a close, a word of advice to our liberal counterparts in the media and the Democratic Party: You should learn to love America again. The United States had its best-ever Winter Olympics performance this year, winning more gold medals at the Winter Games than ever, finishing second in […]
Jack Hughes is normally a laid back sort of guy, especially in interviews. It’s sort of his brand. The star forward for the NHL’s New Jersey Devils arrived in Milan for the 2026 Winter Olympics facing nagging injuries and a chorus of skeptics who questioned whether he really belonged on Team USA. Over the ensuing two […]
Veteran journalist Jon Ralston, founder and CEO of The Nevada Independent, has written a detailed, page-turning biography of the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight, offering political junkies and the politically indifferent alike an expansive look at one of Capitol […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent Munich Security Conference speech, and much of the reaction to it, focused on the transatlantic alliance. Yet his warning that weak allies ultimately weaken the United States applies even more urgently in the Indo-Pacific, where U.S. strategy increasingly depends on allied endurance. As Washington deepens military integration with Australia […]
A federal court on Monday rejected the latest Republican-led bid to block a new congressional map in Utah that could give Democrats a seat in the red state. A three-judge panel denied a motion for a preliminary injunction that would have blocked the new lines from going into effect before this fall’s midterms. “Because we...
For much of his second term, the court has handed the president major wins on immigration, executive power and agency authority. But this time, the justices drew a line.