To have a chance at joining Delta Force, the U.S. military’s most elite special operations unit, tryouts must first complete approximately three weeks of increasingly arduous marches while carrying increasing weight loads. This test phase of the selection course ends with a roughly 40-mile march known in the military as “The Long Walk.” Few are […]
President Donald Trump said last month that the war in Iran would be over “within two weeks … maybe three.” Yet, with the regime still intact and unwilling to give up nuclear enrichment, it seems things are just getting started. The Trump administration’s Iran war timeline feels a lot like the COVID-19 lockdown timeline. “Two […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. April 16, 1776 Tensions are high. Gen. George Washington is […]
Parenting today can feel like a never-ending exercise in risk management. We worry about what our kids eat, the air they breathe, and the schools they attend. Yet one of the most important questions rarely makes it into everyday conversation: Where do our children’s medications come from, and how confident are we in how they’re […]
One might never know it by the rhetoric of Pope Leo XIV, but the Islamic theocracy that rules over Iran is a brutal regime. The country is regularly linked to terrorist paramilitary organizations wreaking havoc and causing enormous amounts of violence, destruction, and suffering to innocent people throughout the Middle East. Despite such horrific acts, […]
There is a temptation, as the United States marks its semiquincentennial, to imagine history repeating itself with comforting symmetry. A British monarch will cross the Atlantic. Crowds will gather. The familiar language of kinship — “our cousins,” “the mother country,” “the special relationship” — will be dusted off once again. It is an appealing tableau. […]
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) have proposed a new tax on property owners who have second homes in New York City worth more than $5 million, in an effort to narrow the city's budget deficit by targeting the ultrawealthy. The “pied-à-terre tax” would be an annual...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday repeated an air rescue group's prayer, which borrows from a scene in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction." During a Pentagon service, Hegseth said the prayer — called CSAR 25:17, an apparent reference to Ezekiel 25:17 in the Bible — was recited during a mission to recover the pilot of a...
Damon Jones, the former NBA player charged in connection with an illegal sports gambling ring, is expected to plead guilty to charges in New York. Jones, who played in the NBA for the Cleveland Cavaliers in the late 2000s, is expected to plead guilty to charges of money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy, the...
U.S. Secret Service agents detained a man on Thursday morning after he attempted to breach the White House perimeter on foot. Secret Service communications chief Anthony Guglielmi said the incident occurred around 11:30 a.m. EDT, when the man jumped over a construction bollard by the Treasury Building on the northeast side of the presidential complex...