An indication of the growing strategic significance of rare earths is their role in one of the long-running insurgencies by minority peoples within Burma.
Big trade deals with Japan and the European Union have injected momentum into President Trump's trade agenda and knocked his critics back on their heels.
The Department of Transportation has released a long-secret list of its most overdue and over-budget projects, revealing billions of dollars in taxpayer money committed to projects that just can't seem to get across the finish line.
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — Prostitution is illegal in the state of Virginia, but dozens of brothels nevertheless operate openly in Fairfax County alone, according to local officials. How did the state’s largest municipality, a wealthy and highly educated suburb of Washington, D.C., become a sanctuary county for pimps, madams, and whorehouse operators? All signs point […]
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued an opinion on Monday that blocks the part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act meant to essentially defund Planned Parenthood. Among other things, Talwani said in her ruling that allowing it would bring about “adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable” and “threatens an increase in […]
More than a dozen Republican-led states are urging Congress to ban abortion shield laws, pieces of legislation passed in states where abortion is legal that protect abortion providers from liability for violating anti-abortion laws in other states. A total of 15 GOP attorneys general signed and sent a letter to congressional leadership this week requesting...
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the Senate’s president pro tempore and chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee, said he was “offended” and “disappointed” by the tirade President Trump unleashed against him on social media over the obscure Senate tradition of respecting blue-slip objections to nominees tapped to serve as district court judges and U.S. attorneys. ...
State police in Connecticut say former WWE CEO Vince McMahon was issued a misdemeanor summons for reckless driving after allegedly causing a multi-vehicle crash last week.