President Trump threatened to call a national emergency early Monday after Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said she expects local police to stop cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts now that the president’s 30-day emergency authority has expired. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump lashed out at Bowser, saying...

The Justice Department is reportedly considering a rule that would bar transgender people from possessing guns, on the theory that they are “mentally ill” and therefore “unstable.” The proposal, which has no obvious statutory basis, is so constitutionally dubious that it has provoked objections from every major gun rights group. The rationale for disarming transgender Americans nevertheless resembles...

If renewable energy is so great, why does California pay so much for its electricity? That's the question you need to ask — the one that exposes America's most inconvenient energy truth. Californians pay 35 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity, whereas Iowans, despite generating nearly twice as great a share of renewable energy, enjoy 14 cents. This paradox...

The assassination is focusing the national dialogue on political polarization and safety for public figures.

Harper Moyski and 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel were killed in the Aug. 27 shooting.

President Trump’s suggestions that the suspects in two high-profile killings face the death penalty add to his administration’s increasingly aggressive approach toward capital punishment. This week, Trump called for the 22-year-old accused of killing Charlie Kirk and the man charged in Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska’s stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail system to face execution.  It...

Recent revelations about how artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are interacting with and affecting children are colliding with longstanding concerns about tech companies’ approach to safety and revitalizing efforts to pass kids’ online safety legislation. Chatbots from both Meta and OpenAI have come under scrutiny in the past few weeks, raising questions about how to protect...

Charlie Kirk's assassination at Utah Valley University highlights escalating political violence in America, according to former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan.

Routh, representing himself, delivered a rambling opening last week cut short by the judge as prosecutors began laying out their case.

North Carolina Republican Sens. Thom Tillis and Ted Budd disagree on federal intervention in Charlotte after Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska's murder by a repeat offender.