MATAMORAS, Pennsylvania — Combat veteran Dave McCormick, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) this year, said that during his 67-county bus tour, he has learned a lot about what is important to voters across the state. McCormick said that talking with voters in places where few statewide candidates stop to listen to their […]
More transgender athletes are winning championships than ever, and people are unhappy about it. In Oregon and Washington, the response to male athletes who identify as female winning state championships in high school girls outdoor track and field this season was, unsurprisingly, poor. Aayden Gallagher received boos upon winning the 200-meter race at an Oregon state championship last month. […]
How do major Democratic-run states spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars and still need to increase taxes to pay for things as basic as roads and public transit? This is the question raised by the backlash to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D-NY) decision to delay congestion pricing in New York City. The plan would have […]
Can Texas hold its own against New York as a financial center? Backers of the impending Texas Stock Exchange think so, and they’re betting big. BlackRock, Citadel Securities, and individual investors have thus far contributed $120 million to get the planned electronic exchange, with an accompanying physical location in Dallas, up and running. The New […]
Stanford University has announced that it will bring back standardized testing requirements for undergraduate admissions, joining other elite colleges and universities such as Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth in reverting back to their pre-COVID practices. After numerous universities appeased the demands of terrorist sympathizers and plagiarism scandals rocked academia, the decision to raise standards of admission […]
French elections on Sunday led to a strong right-wing victory for spots in the European Union Parliament. The EU Parliament consists of 720 delegates from 27 nations. The Left, Center, and Green parties are still set to maintain their overall majority, but by a smaller margin. The French vote is seen as an expression of […]
Despite the deluge of sensationalist headlines, it is unlikely you will die in an AI robot apocalypse. Death by a thousand e-papercuts, though, is not out of the question. AI is not exactly new. If you define it simply as any heuristic algorithm that does a task normally (or previously) done by humans, AI dates back to […]
Whether she’s getting left off of Team USA, being targeted by cheap shots, or being discussed incessantly by sports media gurus, Caitlin Clark has handled every moment with an underappreciated amount of class. Ever since Angel Reese infamously celebrated in Clark’s face after Louisiana State University defeated the University of Iowa in the 2023 NCAA […]
President Joe Biden has nominated a radical activist, current Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn, to a powerful federal district court post. Judicial nominations don’t register on people’s list of scintillating topics. But they should. It doesn’t matter what our laws are or who our president is if partisan judges replace laws and executive policies with whatever […]
Curious what was in President Lincoln’s pockets on the day of his assassination? The contents — along with some 120 historical artifacts — are now on public display at the Library of Congress for the first time. The inaugural exhibit, “Collecting Memories,” in the brand-new David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery is set to open on June...