From Lincoln's elephants to Trump's luxury jet, US presidents have a long history of receiving foreign gifts. But it is not without legal and ethical controversy.
The Episcopal Church's migration service is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status, citing the church's longstanding "commitment to racial justice and reconciliation."
House Republicans want to set aside up to $5 billion a year for scholarships to help families send their children to private and religious schools, an unprecedented effort to use public money to pay for private education.
One of the things that drew me to endorse early a young, first-time U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, JD Vance, was a sense of shared understanding and passion for the typical struggling family. Vance, now vice president, told his moving family story in his 2016 bestselling book (also a popular Ron Howard Netflix film) Hillbilly Elegy. To read […]
Manna, Scripture tells us, came down from heaven through the hand of God. Pizza, in turn, came to us from Naples, through New York City. Now, God has given us a pope from Chicago who has spent much of his life in Rome. And so the long-burning conflict between different pizza styles threatens to become […]
In a world of odd “spiritual” beliefs, Dr. Casey Means is no outsider. In fact, she is an effective channel for them. Means and her brother, Calley, are Stanford-educated medical professionals whose work focuses on functional medicine — the sort of root-cause and wellness interests that drive the “Make America Healthy Again” movement. The siblings […]
Nissan said on Tuesday it is making significant reductions to its workforce and scaling back factory production, citing results during its just-completed fiscal year. The Japanese automaker said it is aiming to reduce its workforce by a total of 20,000 employees between fiscal years 2024 and 2027, which would include the previously announced reduction of...
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) is warning that Qatar’s gift of a luxury Boeing 747-8 to the Trump administration to serve as the new Air Force One poses “significant espionage and surveillance problems,” a concern voiced by other lawmakers. “I’m not a fan of Qatar. I think they have a really disturbing pattern of funding...