A U.S. congressional committee released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend accounts on the social media platform X, offering a glimpse into decisions that have spurred complaints of alleged censorship from the company and its billionaire owner Elon Musk.
The United States is building the first new nuclear warhead in 40 years but will do so without nuclear testing, the Energy Department officials told Congress.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has secured a place on the ballot in the battleground state of Michigan, state officials confirmed Thursday, elevating his potential to affect the November election.
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial ordered the media on Thursday not to report on where potential jurors have worked and to be careful about revealing information about those who will sit in judgment of the former president.
Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson plowed forward Thursday with plans to pass a $95 billion foreign aid package, despite staunch opposition from conservatives and a threat to oust him by a pair of GOP hardliners.
Win the battle, lose the war. On April 1, Israel did the civilized world a favor by hitting an Iranian terrorist conclave in Damascus, Syria. The Iranian regime threatened to rain fire on Israel. “Don’t,” was President Joe Biden’s public message to Iran on April 13. Just hours later, Iran fired one of the largest, […]
Yes, Herman Melville sold a lot of books before he died, but it was his Typee, an account of “life among the savages,” that captured the popular imagination, not the unloved and disregarded Moby-Dick. Perhaps the most depressing part of seriously studying English literature is realizing just how little of it was actually read at any […]
Benjamin Franklin was, as the children say these days, built different. The Pennsylvanian founding father studiously maintained a chart bearing seven columns, for each day of the week, and 13 rows, one for each of 13 central virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. Each week, Franklin […]
When Woody Allen talks about the directors he seeks to emulate, imitate, or merely copy from, the names he is likely to mention are Ingmar, Federico, and maybe Jean (as in Renoir). Notwithstanding his well-publicized penchant for the giants of midcentury European cinema, Allen also owes a major debt to a far less pretentious (and, […]