Israel Vail's entire life in the small western Guatemalan town of Cajola is built off the money that his three children send home from the United States.
A Democratic lawmaker is launching a renegade effort to impeach President Donald Trump, pushing past party leaders on Wednesday with an attempt to force a procedural vote in the U.S. House that is expected to fail.
Congressional lawmakers are seeking a bipartisan path to codify President Trump's order easing regulations that sometimes make people into criminals for breaking laws they have no reason to know exist.
Pete Buttigieg returned to Iowa with some subtle and not-so-subtle messages about what has changed since he ran in the state's 2020 Democratic presidential caucuses.
After a marathon markup of the House Ways and Means Committee’s draft of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, the signature legislative priority can finally be consolidated by the House Budget Committee, the penultimate step before the bill can be brought for a floor vote. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wants the chamber to […]
It’s impossible not to enjoy seeing legacy news figures scramble to downplay their role in the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline. The drama they’d spun and fancied themselves stars in, the one about intrepid journalists beating back the fascists with “facts” and moxie, has been exposed as a fairy tale for all […]
Mississippi leads the nation. That’s not a typographical error. And it’s not just a gotcha phrase, preparing the reader for learning that Mississippi leads the nation on all sorts of negative things. Once upon a time, that was true, and in some respects it still is. Mississippi has the lowest or nearly the lowest income […]
On Tuesday, despite an outpouring of taxpayer protest, all nine Fairfax County Democrat supervisors voted to enact numerous tax hikes, with only Republican Pat Herrity opposing. This bloated budget demanding yet more money from taxpayers comes at a time when federal employees around the county are losing their jobs, Virginia has the highest car tax […]
Pope Leo XIV, with his American background, is likely to prioritize the Vatican's alignment with the West in general, rather than neutrality, and may use his influence to promote peace in the world.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Summer Mersinger is leaving the agency to lead the Blockchain Association, the crypto trade group announced Wednesday. Mersinger, who has spent the last three years at the agency, will take over as CEO of the Blockchain Association as its longtime CEO Kristin Smith leaves to head up a new...