Leonard Peltier, the 80-year-old activist who received two life sentences for his role in the 1975 murder of two FBI agents, was released from prison Tuesday after President Biden commuted his sentence in one of his final acts before leaving office.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday was set to sign new executive orders from his Florida home while his first joint TV interview with adviser Elon Musk airs in prime time.
Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program.
Presidents Day protests against President Donald Trump were just noise. They would not have seemed so disconnected from reality otherwise. What we saw was a mass of people who will not get on board with decidedly common and voter-approved motions from the president. Rapid-fire adjustments and reallocations are no shocking play, especially along the arc […]
President Donald Trump wants the Panama Canal back. However, he might be walking into his own version of the Cuban missile crisis. Amid the heated exchanges between the United States and Panamanian presidents, the diplomatic twist that hasn’t been reported is that Chinese state-owned entities COSCO and China Merchants are reportedly trying to buy a […]
The United States cannot deter or defeat China in a war over Taiwan if U.S. naval and air forces are spread thinly across Europe, the Middle East, and China. The U.S. can deter Russia by maintaining Army deployments in Eastern Europe and nuclear strike preeminence. The U.S. can deter Iran by responding to acts of […]
Saturday Night Live is often afflicted with horribly biased and unfunny sketches. But Kenan Thompson’s recurring Black Jeopardy isn’t one of them, and conservatives outraged by Tom Hanks’s appearance on the sketch during the show’s 50th-anniversary special need to get over themselves. If you watch just the Hanks appearance from Sunday and are ignorant about […]
A new article published this week in The Lancet medical journal found that more than half of the world's population lacks access to safe and affordable medical oxygen services, and most people outside of high-income countries go without adequate oxygen services for their medical conditions. As the Lancet Global Health Commission noted in its report...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s meeting with his Russian counterpart in Riyadh on Tuesday marked a major shift in U.S. relations with the country, ending a policy of isolation imposed after Russia’s full-scale invasion against Ukraine in February 2022. U.S. and Russian officials left meetings signaling a reset in the bilateral relationship, though no concrete...