Control over the U.S. House of Representatives still hangs in the balance, teetering between a Republican or Democratic majority with less than 20 races left to be called.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is rejecting Democrats' calls to retire as soon as possible so President Biden can nominate a replacement before he leaves office in January.
For all the lectures and shaming over “accepting election results,” Democrats are now refusing to accept the results of the Pennsylvania Senate race. Republican Dave McCormick has won the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania, defeating incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. With over 95% of the votes tallied, McCormick leads Casey by nearly 40,000 votes. As […]
If you think it’s a problem that seven “swing” states get more attention from presidential campaigns than the other 43 states combined, don’t blame the Electoral College system. Blame the other 43 states. Each state has the power, with simple legislation, to fix its status as a political afterthought. No approval is needed from anyone […]
In this year’s elections, the Democrats ran on women’s rights. They just picked the wrong right to run on. All they talked about was abortion, as if that is the only right women care about. In the end, it was gender ideology that broke through as the force animating women. As it turns out, women […]
THE CASE FOR MASS DEPORTATIONS. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to “launch the largest deportation of criminals in American history.” That is a quote from a Nov. 2 rally in Salem, Virginia, but Trump has said precisely the same thing dozens of times. Still, through the course of a long campaign, with his improvisational style, Trump […]
A Spirit Airlines flight was hit by gunfire in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The flight was headed to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and was diverted when it was hit. The airline said Flight 951 landed safely in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Spirit Airlines said in a statement that an inspection revealed “evidence of damage to the aircraft consistent with...
President-elect Trump’s White House victory has created tussles among conservatives and liberals alike over whether the Supreme Court’s oldest justices should retire. Trump’s election has raised public anticipation that two of the court’s leading conservatives, Justice Clarence Thomas, 76, and Justice Samuel Alito, 74, may step down. Although the incoming Republican-controlled Senate could glide their...
October 2024 was both the second-warmest and second-driest October ever recorded in the U.S., according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The 48 contiguous U.S. states saw an average temperature of 59 degrees Fahrenheit in October, 4.9 degrees warmer than the 20th century average, according to NOAA. Only one previous October, 1963, was...