Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro plans to address the state's struggling higher education system in his upcoming budget proposal by providing aid to universities.
On Sunday, I watched the movie Remember This, a remarkable tribute to former Georgetown University professor Jan Karski, a messenger for the Polish Underground who was the first man to take an eyewitness account of Nazi labor camps directly to President Franklin Roosevelt. On Monday, I read a Townhall story about how the Georgetown School […]
A heating planet and expanding commercial agriculture are putting increasing pressure on America’s vital aquifers — underground reservoirs that supply water to an estimated 145 million Americans, as well as supporting much of the nation's food supply. New research published Tuesday in Nature uncovered rapid and accelerating declines in underground water sources across the world, with some of the...
As the results came in from New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary Tuesday, analysts on Fox News were already speculating about who the winner — former President Trump — might choose as his running mate to bolster his general election chances. “Maybe we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves,” host Jesse Watters said. There have only been...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement Tuesday that he had amassed enough signatures to qualify for the New Hampshire ballot for the general election, after already getting on Utah’s, is drawing fresh concern from Democrats over how he could transform the race. Freeing himself from the Democratic Party to run as an independent, Kennedy was ineligible...
GOP supporters of aid to Ukraine are beginning to look for a Plan B as they come to grips with the reality that Senate legislation to boost border security and deal with a host for foreign crises is dead in the House. The virulent conservative opposition to the bill has led some Republican senators to...
A bipartisan deal that would reduce business taxes while expanding the child tax credit has set up a political dilemma for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as he weighs whether to bypass objections from within his own ranks to bring it to the floor as soon as next week. Pushback to the tax bill from hard-line...
As House Republicans prepare to mark up a resolution to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, they’ve increasingly focused on claims he’s obstructed their investigation — igniting another dispute with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) last week sent a letter claiming DHS has failed to respond to...
The Biden administration will pause approvals of some natural gas export facilities as it considers changing how to evaluate them, the administration announced Friday. The current analyses the Energy Department uses to decide whether to authorize exports of liquified natural gas (LNG) do not “adequately account” for factors like domestic energy costs or planet-warming emissions,...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) found herself on the defense several times during a local debate on Thursday night in the GOP primary for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District as several contenders questioned her decision to run in a different congressional district. Boebert has represented Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District since 2021, but she announced late last year to...