Former President Donald Trump vehemently called on House Republicans to kill the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is the government's most powerful tool to spy on foreigners.

For most of her life, Angela Crawford considered herself a fairly conservative Republican - and she voted that way. But then a wave of court rulings and Republican-led actions in states restricted abortion and later in vitro fertilization, the very procedure that had helped her conceive her daughter. It helped change her politics.

It usually takes defendants charged with federal crimes more than two years for their cases to work their way through the courts, another indication that the push to put former President Trump on trial more rapidly this year is motivated by the election calendar.

President Joe Biden is set to host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday for talks on the delicate security situation in the Pacific and for a glitzy state dinner, honoring a leader who has proven to be one of Biden's strongest allies in the face of international crises.

Two weeks ago, NBC personalities threw a tantrum over the network hiring a milquetoast Republican to be on their “sacred airwaves.” On Tuesday, those sacred airwaves were handed over to a convicted felon. The tantrum from NBC and MSNBC “talent” over the hiring of former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel stemmed from the distaste […]

President Joe Biden (or aides acting in his name) declared Easter Sunday to be “Transgender Day of Visibility.” While Biden is only the second Catholic president and says he attends mass, he appears to harbor a grudge against the Church, repeatedly targeting its practices and personnel. On March 31, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., described Biden as a “cafeteria Catholic.” […]

The pro-life movement is in a tough spot. The overturn of Roe v. Wade has laid bare the stark reality that the people of the United States are all too sympathetic to the systemic murder of unborn babies. But in responding to this dark moment, the movement should draw some lessons from Abraham Lincoln. When […]

When are we going to trust our fellow Americans again? When are we going to allow qualified individuals with responsibility to make decisions without consulting detailed rule books and formal procedures? Those are questions that the New York lawyer and author Philip K. Howard (one of his books is called, simply, Try Common Sense) asks […]

At the start of the year, investors expected the Federal Reserve to cut the federal funds rate from a 23-year high at least six or seven times. By March, Treasury futures had downgraded their expectations of rate cuts to just three times throughout 2024, as the central bank had predicted at the end of last […]

The March consumer price inflation report was released on Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report displayed higher-than-expected inflation readings for both headline and core inflation. The headline monthly increase in inflation was 0.4%, and the core reading, which strips out food and energy, was also 0.4%. With the new information, consumer price inflation is running […]