School shutdowns during COVID-19 were antiscience and set students back academically and socially for no real health benefits. If push comes to shove, teachers unions would happily shut down schools again. The two largest teachers unions in the country have both defended their antiscience school shutdowns and said that they would shutter schools again in […]
The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student and anti-Israel activist, tests President Donald Trump’s new policy to deport foreign nationals backing terrorist groups. The first case of its kind, it has ignited media frenzy and protests. How it unfolds could significantly influence the political climate during the initial phase of Trump’s second term. […]
Conservative Christians are pushing themselves to the front of the fight against antisemitism and claiming, in essence, to be better Jews than the Jews themselves.
The Washington, D.C., attorney general’s office has dropped its lawsuit against the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. In a court filing, the attorney general’s office said the city was unlikely to be able to find enough money to justify continuing the case against the conservative...
The White House on Monday cast doubt on the authority of a verbal order from a judge directing the administration to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants out of the country. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt faced several questions during a briefing about the administration’s decision to ignore the order from a federal judge....
A federal appeals court in a 2-1 decision Monday declined to immediately block a judge’s order that the Trump administration reinstate fired probationary employees at six federal agencies. The new ruling, which does not address the legality of the firings, refuses the administration’s request for an administrative stay that would temporarily freeze the ruling until the...
Republican Rep. Brandon Gill (Texas) said he would be pushing to impeach the federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to halt deportations of Venezuelan gang members over the weekend. “I’ll be filing Articles of Impeachment against activist judge James Boasberg this week,” Gill wrote in a post on social platform X. On Saturday, President...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) touted his new vehicle on Sunday after he announced last week he would ditch his Tesla amid an ongoing back-and-forth with Elon Musk, the CEO of the electric vehicle company. In a video posted Sunday to the social platform X, which Musk owns, Kelly showed off what he called his "new...
We must address the twin demands of growing our commercial shipbuilding capacity along with our merchant fleet and increasing our ability to speed up military vessel construction.