Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, wants to encourage fathers to be more involved with their children, starting with the months before they're born.
Federal prison guards left an inmate for 21 hours inside a wire cage little bigger than a phone booth, according to an inspector general who issued an emergency alert prodding the government to come up with new rules to govern the practice.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear an appeal that could upend hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot, including against former President Donald Trump.
As a branding exercise, "Bidenomics" has proven a total bust. House Democrats have abandoned the moniker as they begin to campaign for the 2024 election, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, with the academic chops to know much better, has resorted to blaming the pandemic for the message's failure to resonate with the public. Across academia, elite economists such as Claudia Sahm and Paul Krugman are baffled at why exactly the unwashed masses cannot understand that the economy is good, actually.
The assumption by Republican voters and pundits that anyone could beat President Joe Biden because of Biden’s unpopularity is lazy and destructive — because it is being used to justify the weakest possible GOP nominee: former President Donald Trump.
Institutional rot. That’s the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic temperaments or alarmist analysis.
Rashid Rauf and Ibrahim al Asiri may not have succeeded in their efforts to bring down passenger airliners, but both of these al Qaeda terrorists were killed in U.S. drone strikes (Rauf in 2008 and al Asiri in 2017).
The threat of cancel culture has prevailed again: This time, the Spanish fashion retailer Zara was targeted after online trolls decided that an artsy ad campaign referred to scenes from the Israel-Hamas war. Zara yanked the images from social media, even though the accusations were untrue.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday afternoon is slated to hold a press briefing. Inflation has fallen from its peak above 9 percent in June 2022 to 3.1 percent in November, according to the latest consumer price index released Tuesday by the Labor Department. That number is still above the Fed’s 2 percent inflation...