Centrist Republicans from swing districts usually deserve a lot more leeway when it comes to their ideological purity versus the things they must do or say to keep their seats. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) has exhausted that leeway, demanding that taxpayers across the country subsidize the Democratic tax system in his own state. This has been the core of the […]

Members of the European Union have joined the United Kingdom in charting tougher paths than the United States toward Russia and Israel. Let’s start with Russia. On Tuesday, the EU and the U.K. introduced a new raft of sanctions targeting Russian individuals, energy tanker ships, and financial institutions. The sanctions follow a phone call between […]

EVEN AS HE FIGHTS CANCER, BIDEN OWES AMERICANS AN EXPLANATION. Former President Joe Biden‘s announcement that he is suffering from advanced metastatic prostate cancer landed awkwardly amid a debate about Biden’s physical and mental infirmity during his years as president. All of a sudden, people who were arguing that it was a scandal that Biden served […]

Predicting future events is difficult, but economists and election forecasters have made significant progress in recent years, with accuracy rates of 90 percent for five-day weather forecasts and 50 percent for ten-day forecasts, and 23 percent for economic forecasts, but the circumstances of the election can greatly influence the outcome.

House Republicans are scrambling to finalize the details of their “one big, beautiful bill” of President Trump’s legislative priorities. The White House is pushing to hold the vote on Wednesday, even as warring Republican factions negotiate last-minute tweaks and some members warn they cannot yet support it. GOP leaders have made some progress winning over...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright is testifying Wednesday afternoon before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the department's fiscal 2026 budget request. The Trump administration's spending proposal includes significant cuts to Biden-era green initiatives. Paired with the GOP-backed reconciliation bill, renewable energy incentives would also be slashed. The hearing comes after Wright announced proposals to cut dozens...

An Ohio school district is investigating after a 24-year-old was accused of enrolling in its high school, allegedly posing as a teenage boy for over a year and a half.

A federal judge on Wednesday chided the Department of Justice (DOJ) during a hearing where he agreed to dismiss a trespassing charge against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D), stemming from his visit to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility earlier this month alongside three Democratic members of Congress. U.S. District Judge Andre...

The U.S. health care system is ill-prepared to treat pregnant patients and their infants who have endured the impacts of wildfire smoke exposure, a new study finds. Many residents of communities prone to the proliferation of wildfire smoke lack geographic access to the treatments they might need, according to the study, published in the American...

A federal judge said Wednesday the Trump administration violated his order when it boarded a group of migrants on a flight headed for South Sudan earlier this week and he will issue an order requiring it to be remedied. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy ruled the flight ran afoul of his decision last month requiring the...