Supreme Court watchers are most eagerly awaiting the justices' decision on whether a state can ban medical treatment for transgender youth, saying it is the top case of the 2024-2025 term.
President Trump has threatened to strip federal funding from California if it doesn't comply with the administration's ban on transgender athletes in women's sports.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing President Donald Trump like a balalaika. That is how to understand Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s airy announcement Tuesday in Turkey that Putin and Trump have agreed to exchange Americans held in Russian prisons for Russians detained by the United States. You can hear the soothing tinkle of music intended […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently published a rule targeting “provider taxes,” a financing gimmick states use to harvest extra Medicaid dollars from the federal government. Good on the Trump administration. Over the last decade and a half, states have exploited provider taxes and other financing loopholes to push more and more of […]
Aviation affects nearly every single Alaskan. Only 22% of our state is connected to a road system. The rest of our communities, especially in rural areas, rely on aviation for their groceries, for their mail, or to transport patients in medical emergencies. From bush pilots in Nome to air traffic controllers in Anchorage, our skies […]
Despite the comforts of modern life, we are facing a mental health crisis. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than 1 in 5 adults live with a mental disorder. Young adults aged 18-25 have the highest rate of mental illness (36%), and those with serious mental illness experience functional impairment and interference with […]
Oftentimes in Washington, promises go unkept, and priorities fall to the wayside as politics take over. I’m proud to have worked in tandem with my colleagues and President Donald Trump to make good on a promise I made. On May 22, Congress struck down a key aspect of the Biden administration’s nationwide electric vehicle mandate […]
There’s a new trade on Wall Street: the TACO trade for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” The term was coined by Robert Armstrong, a writer for the Financial Times, and is intended to capture how markets have fallen on Trump’s vow to impose steep tariffs on imports to the United States and then jump back up...
A second individual has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and torture of a man held for weeks over access to his Bitcoin password. The arrest of 32-year-old William Duplessie on Tuesday comes after police say a 28-year-old Italian national escaped from weeks of captivity in a New York City apartment. Prosecutors said the...
Defense Department civilian employees will no longer have to submit a weekly “five things” productivity reports that were imposed in February, during billionaire Elon Musk's run overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency. Instead of the reports, the Pentagon told employees in an email on Friday, they must submit by Wednesday each week at least one...