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‘Great embarrassment’: Hear Trump’s courtroom response to Judge Merchan’s ‘political witch hunt’ trial

The audio from President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing hearing was released on Friday and showed a defiant Trump making the case that the November election vindicated his position.

Senate should show US leadership is back: Pass the ICC sanctions bill

In a blow against anti-Israel insanity, the House passed a bill Thursday slamming the International Criminal Court for its ludicrous campaign against Prime Minister...

Donald Trump stands his ground as Judge Merchan hands down no-jail sentence for felony conviction

A defiant President-elect Donald Trump received his no-jail sentence Friday in a surreal and historic hearing just days before his return to Washington as the leader of the free world.

Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu: A haunting revival of vampiric terror

What’s the worst job imaginable? Slaughterhouse worker, World Trade Center window washer, or Facebook fact-checker might come to mind, but that onerous burden really falls on Thomas Hutter, the real estate agent tasked with selling a castle to a vampire in Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu, a haunting remake of the century-old silent classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. The […]

War with China and the ghosts of Iraq and Afghanistan

Proponents of the Domino Theory convinced the public to support military intervention in Vietnam. But the fall of Vietnam did not lead to a communist sweep of Southeast Asia. In the end, more than 58,000 American soldiers were lost in a conflict based on a faulty premise. Iraq War boosters cast a similar spell over […]

Biden ‘finally beat Medicare’ on his way out of office

The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson caused the media to highlight sensationalist negative stories about health insurers. One important fact these stories ignore is that older Americans increasingly choose private insurers to manage their Medicare benefits. These plans are called Medicare Advantage, and 54% of Medicare beneficiaries now opt for them. The Biden administration […]

Will the new presidency affect WFH for federal workers?

Winds of change are blowing, and for federal workers these could bring an end to the widespread remote work policies adopted and enhanced during the pandemic. Recommendations from the new Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, strongly suggest that big changes are ahead. The advisory committee, helmed by Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur and...

The books members of Congress are reading

Since opening up an independent bookstore on Long Island, I’ve often been asked by my former colleagues in Congress for book recommendations. At the start of every new year, I survey members for their own preferences.

California official bans insurance cancellations, nonrenewals in wildfire-affected areas

California's insurance commissioner issued a one-year moratorium on policy nonrenewals and cancellations in areas affected by devastating wildfires in and around Los Angeles. “I am using my moratorium powers to prevent insurance companies from canceling or non-renewing policies in wildfire-impacted areas, so people don’t face the added stress of finding new insurance during this horrific...

Trump says sentencing was ‘despicable charade’

President-elect Trump said his New York hush money sentencing Friday was a “despicable charade” in a Truth Social post. “As the American People have seen, this ‘case’ had no crime, no damages, no proof, no facts, no Law, only a highly conflicted Judge, a star witness who is a disbarred, disgraced, serial perjurer, and criminal...

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