A House panel on Wednesday adopted its massive final report on the coronavirus and its origins, putting its final stamp on the fallout from the pathogen that upended society in 2020 and 2021.
Democratic victories and President-elect Donald Trump scooping House Republicans for Cabinet spots have whittled the GOP's majority to the bone, but Speaker Mike Johnson said the GOP has grown used to working with thin margins.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Peter Navarro will serve as senior counsel for trade and manufacturing in his next administration.
Jimmy Lai is on trial in Hong Kong on charges of sedition and foreign collusion. The Chinese Communist Party despises him for his ardent support of the democratic rule of law in the former British colony. It wants his trial to serve as an example to others who support human freedom that they should keep […]
Whatever happened to the Democrats’ reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising economic redistribution from the rich to the average man? Those are questions that Democrats are asking after Vice President Kamala Harris’s decisive, but not landslide, loss to President-elect Donald Trump. […]
The national outrage has simmered after Chicago officials waited five days to confirm that 22-year-old Mauritanian national Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi’s target in an Oct. 26 shooting in the West Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago was an Orthodox Jewish man wearing a kippah. Even when officials noted that Abdallahi intentionally sought Jewish victims while announcing hate […]
The prospect of a nuclear war between the United States and Russia occurring within the next 10 years is low but not nonexistent. The war in Ukraine is the dominant concern here. Russia views Ukraine as the detached limb of an imperium that was wrongly allowed to fade away with the end of the Cold […]
As we witness the closing stages of the trial for Daniel Penny, the former Marine who is being charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in New York City, we’re being reminded of a brutal truth that goes far beyond the corruption of our justice system and strikes to the core of our society’s descent […]
I survived a potentially traumatic event last night. Well, actually, I just saw Wicked in theaters. But according to the British Board of Film Classification, that’s basically the same thing. The U.K. organization made global headlines after hitting the new movie version of the famed musical with a “trigger warning” because it includes “discrimination.” Yes, […]