The State Department will reverse "decades of bloat and bureaucracy" by closing offices and consolidating functions under a reorganization program unveiled Tuesday.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pulled the airstrike information he posted into Signal chats with his wife, brother and dozens of others from a secure communications channel used by U.S. Central Command, raising new questions as to whether the embattled Pentagon head leaked classified information over an open, unsecured network.
The former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime chief of staff are facing a federal criminal trial this week, where some old colleagues will be less friendly on the witness stand than others.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser tried to keep the focus on a groundbreaking ceremony for a new mixed-used development. But she couldn't help fielding a string of questions about the budget crisis hanging over the nation's capital city.
Like a fleet of ghost ships, Biden-era antitrust actions continue to sail along, creakily sailing a Sargasso Sea of indecision by new Trump-appointed regulators. No one seems to be manning these phantoms. No navy seems willing to scuttle them, either. These legacy suits from former President Joe Biden against Amazon, Apple, Google, and others continue […]
California has yet another over-budget, unnecessary project in the works. State Democrats are intent on keeping key details about it secret, including how the money is being spent. The Capitol Annex Project is California’s attempt to build a new Capitol building, with offices for all state legislators, the governor, and lieutenant governor, as well as […]
This Earth Day comes on the heels of a remarkable turning point in conservation history: Scientists at Colossal Laboratories have claimed the first animal species de-extinction by recreating dire wolves through genetic editing. Some have argued that modifying animals (in this case, grey wolves) to resemble extinct species is not true de-extinction. Still, it is certainly a significant departure from […]
The Trump administration is missing an opportunity to bring the Islamic Republic of Iran to heel, as it seems to want to strike a deal similar to the Obama-era nuclear deal, instead of using the opportunity to redefine the terms and end Iran's destabilizing factor on the world stage.