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Flight from LaGuardia diverts to JFK after bird strike: American Airlines

A flight from LaGuardia Airport to North Carolina was diverted to John F. Kennedy International Airport on Thursday evening due to a reported bird strike, according to American Airlines.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi injured, hospitalized while traveling to Luxembourg

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered an injury and has been admitted to a hospital in Luxembourg.

Montana Supreme Court blocks ban on transgender surgeries, prompting outcry from GOP lawmaker, supporters

A Montana Republican lawmaker is criticizing a state Supreme Court's decision to continue blocking a ban on transgender surgeries for minors.

GOP Sen. Murkowski says she’s ‘not attached to’ GOP label, but is ‘still a Republican’

Sen. Lisa Murkowski indicated that she is not wedded to the Republican label, but has never abandoned it.

Biden stirs outrage in Scranton by commuting ‘kids for cash’ judge’s sentence

President Biden has stirred controversy after he commuted the sentence of a corrupt judge who was jailed for more than 17 years after he was caught taking kickbacks for sending juveniles to for-profit detention facilities.

White House says to ‘expect more’ climate funding before President Biden leaves office

President Biden is seeking to focus on climate funding during his final weeks in office, before President-elect Trump potentially takes aim at his green energy agenda.

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

Mississippi’s Clarke Reed blocked Reagan but did a lifetime of good for the GOP

If not for one momentous decision in 1976, Mississippi’s Clarke Reed would be considered one of the great heroes of the Republican Party renaissance of the latter 20th century. The reality that he spent his last 48 years detested by a swath of Reaganite activists should not obscure his larger contributions to the cause. Journalist-historian […]

What’s inside Stanley Tucci

Though Stanley Tucci is a Hollywood A-lister, starring alongside Ralph Fiennes in this year’s Oscar-contending Conclave, for instance, and in crowd pleasers such as the Hunger Games films, he has cooked up a public persona somehow more associated with food than acting. Tucci has honed a character as a famous epicure that rivals the ones […]

No risk, no rewards for America

A senior federal employee lamented to me recently about work fights he has with lawyers. It would be bad enough if these pitted him against attorneys launching lawsuits against his department, but it’s not.  His diurnal conflicts are with lawyers on his own side. They constantly press him not to go ahead with one innovation […]

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