The Trump administration made a sound distinction this week when it told leading AI companies that open-weight models would remain outside a new voluntary federal safety-testing framework. Critics immediately called the decision a gap in oversight. That description assumes every advanced model can be governed through the same checkpoint. Closed frontier systems and open-weight releases […]
Curtis Squire kept a handgun in his New Orleans home. Police found it while executing a search warrant tied to a shooting he wasn’t charged with. He had prior convictions for heroin trafficking and burglary, which made the gun itself a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the felon-in-possession statute. A 5th Circuit panel […]
Walk through a diaspora protest in London, Los Angeles, or Toronto, and you will spot something that shatters decades of state propaganda. Right beside the ancient Persian Lion and Sun flag flies the Star of David. This isn’t a cheap political stunt. It’s a raw, spontaneous nod to a shared history stretching back thousands of […]
Congress spent 90 years regulating suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns through a tax. Not a ban. A tax: pay $200, submit fingerprints and a photograph, wait for federal approval, and register the item forever in a national database. The National Firearms Act of 1934 survived its first constitutional test because the Supreme Court, in […]
Infrastructure bills like the “BUILD America 250 Act” typically build two things. One is physical: roads, bridges, ports, rail corridors, freight networks. The other is legal infrastructure that determines how safely, quickly, and affordably people and goods can move. For the latter, the act relies on the old political playbook — new layers of regulation […]
America did not become the world’s energy superpower by bending the knee to socialist, climate alarmist ideology. It became an economic powerhouse because free markets rewarded innovation, hard work, and results. This is a lesson radical environmentalists never learned. As a former banker, licensed financial advisor, and now an oil and gas regulator for the […]
More Americans are saying extreme heat is impacting multiple facets of their lives, according to a new poll. In The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, 50 percent of respondents said their sleep has faced a “major impact” or “minor impact” from extreme heat in the last year, while 39 percent said the...
New reported cases of Ebola are outpacing the response capabilities from international health partners, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official said this week. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the “outbreak is spreading faster than our scale up of the response” in a statement shared on social media following a Wednesday meeting with health...
A federal judge on Wednesday confirmed Haitian migrants in the U.S. have lost their temporary protected status (TPS), after the Supreme Court ruled earlier this summer the Trump administration could terminate the designation. In a two-page order, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes acknowledged the Supreme Court reversed her February decision pausing the administration’s decision ending...