ADEN, Yemen — President Donald Trump accepts no diplomatic straitjacket. During his first term, he feted North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Sometimes, breaking diplomatic china pays off. Trump deserves credit for the Abraham Accords, even if the Nobel Committee’s blacklisting of the president will forever dash his […]
You may have noticed that for the last few months, talks of tariffs seem to have settled down. Of course, part of the driving force behind this comparative silence is that days feel like weeks, weeks feel like months, and months feel like years in our world of Trumpian news cycles, fueled by world-changing events […]
New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani didn’t just win his race — he crushed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo by 12 points. That wasn’t a fluke. It was a warning. A new political generation is rising, and if the rest of us keep laughing off their ideas without asking why they’re winning, we’ll keep losing. One […]
On July 1, the Trump administration announced a pause in specific United States weapons systems to Ukraine as part of a more exhaustive Pentagon review of U.S. munitions stockpiles. The suspension caught Europe and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by surprise. Lawmakers, including some in the Republican Party, were aghast that U.S. defense officials would throttle shipments, even […]
A disaster plan for Camp Mystic was approved by Texas inspectors just days before devastating flooding killed more than 20 people at the Christian all-girls summer camp, according to records released Tuesday. The camp, situated in Kerr County, complied with state regulations pertaining to “procedures to be implemented in case of a disaster,” according to Department...
Russia intensified its bombardment of Ukraine overnight with a record drone attack targeting 10 regions, less than 24 hours after President Trump aired his frustrations with Russian President Vladimir Putin for making little progress toward peace in the more than three-year war. The Russian military fired 728 drones, including more than 300 Shahed drones, along...
President Trump’s signature second-term legislative agenda is hitting the courts. His “big, beautiful bill” is a boon for Second Amendment groups, who say it aids their quest to strike down a 91-year-old gun law requiring many Americans to register their firearms. Meanwhile, a judge already intervened to block one provision of the massive package, protecting Planned...