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Democrats reject Johnson’s border demands as part of Ukraine aid package

House Democrats wasted no time this week rejecting Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) demands for strict new border security measures in return for Ukraine aid, posing the latest obstacle in Congress’s efforts to move another round of military assistance for the embattled U.S. ally. Johnson said Wednesday House Republicans would oppose any new aid for Kyiv...

Biden travels to Allentown to highlight towns ‘making a comeback’

President Biden on Friday will travel to Allentown, Pa., to highlight U.S. towns that he argues were failed by so-called trickle-down economics and are now making a comeback, the White House announced. The president will tout on his trip that Allentown has added 32,000 jobs and the unemployment rate has dropped from 6.4 to 3.9...

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

WARNING: Lawmaker’s bill mandates automatic death penalty for child sex crimes following Epstein files release

Republican New Mexico state Rep. Stefani Lord introduced a bill that would mandate the death penalty for people convicted of certain sex crimes against children.

Lloyd Austin hospitalization: House Republicans demand more details as pressure builds on Pentagon

A group of two dozen House Republicans is seeking answers about how decisions were made that led to the delay in disclosure of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospitalization.

California sheriff blasts Newsom’s ‘pro-criminal agenda’ after court blocks latest gun control law

A California sheriff called out Gov. Gavin Newsom's "anti-gun" agenda after a court blocked a law Newsom signed that would have prohibited concealed carry in many public places.

Haley knocks media over expectations but predicts ‘big showing’ in Iowa caucuses

As she rises in the latest polls in Iowa in the final days ahead of the caucuses, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley mostly shies away from setting expectations.

Have the Houthis made this Somaliland’s moment?

Houthi attacks on shipping continue. While Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced a multilateral effort to patrol the passage with warships, this is dangerous and unsustainable virtue signaling. Perhaps President Joe Biden believes this akin to the Obama-era anti-piracy mission just 400 miles away, but that was in open water far from shore. The U.S. Navy was […]

The Taliban keep breaking their own word on female face coverings

Last week, Taliban fighters arrested dozens of Afghan women and teenagers on the streets of Kabul for the crime of appearing in public with “bad hijab.” One young woman told the Guardian that after her arrest, she was “lashed on her feet and legs.” This behavior is in direct contradiction to Taliban dictates over attire for women. In […]

Mass tort litigations create massive costs for society

All Americans are paying for mass tort lawsuits — even those who have never heard of this type of litigation. These profit-driven legal maneuvers can make attorneys wealthy, but they drain everyone else’s economic resources. Mass tort litigations are lawsuits that involve multiple individual plaintiffs, sometimes thousands of them, seeking damages from defendants, usually corporations, […]

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