Many of us were stunned by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s decision last August to prosecute former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Although I’m not a lawyer, it certainly seemed to be a rather novel, and highly partisan, application of a law that hitherto had […]
For the second year in a row, every branch of the U.S. military, except the Marine and Space Corps, missed its recruiting target. To put this crisis into context, the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force ended 2023 with a recruitment shortfall of 41,000. There has not been a more difficult recruitment environment since the […]
In the lead-up to Taiwan's presidential election, China launched a massive disinformation campaign, with the explicit intention of sowing confusion and making the Taiwanese people question the validity of their own election.
Fresh off his runaway win in the nation's first 2024 presidential nominating contest, the next phase of former President Trump’s courtroom chronicles will begin Tuesday as a jury convenes to determine how much Trump must pay for defaming a longtime advice columnist. Last year, a jury concluded Trump sexually abused the columnist, E. Jean Carroll,...
Former President Trump is poised to emerge the top candidate in 98 of Iowa’s 99 counties after Monday's caucuses, with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley edging him out in just one county. Haley, seen as the more moderate candidate in the race, got the top spot in Johnson County, which is home to the...
Nathan Wade must resign as special prosecutor. Let Georgia stop having to defend Fani Willis and Nathan Wade — and get back to prosecuting Donald Trump.
Congress is racing to fund the government by Friday’s partial shutdown deadline, a heavy task that is bound to get weightier as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) navigates growing anger in his conference over his handling of spending matters. The mad dash comes after congressional leaders rolled out a bipartisan deal to avert a shutdown over...