President Joe Biden said Thursday that 74 U.S. citizens with dual citizenship have left the Gaza Strip, announcing the development as he dispatched his top diplomat to the Middle East for consultation with Israeli and Jordanian leaders concerning the Israel-Hamas war.

Republican senators announced legislation to double the potential prison sentence for anyone caught leaking sensitive taxpayer information, saying the current law is woefully weak.

Democratic leaders in Washington, D.C., are already losing their resolve to support Israel in its war against a terrorist organization that slaughtered Israeli civilians and uses Palestinians as human shields. Somehow, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is the only prominent Democrat with a spine and a moral conscience on the issue.

There is no good, substantive reason for the Senate to insist on bundling aid to Israel with aid to Ukraine and with Mexican border security. Then again, there is no excuse for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to avoid giving Ukrainian aid a prompt, fair vote on the House floor.

For some reason, known only to the wokest of the woke and the absurdly radical of radicals, it’s been decided that bird names are inherently racist and must be changed. Apparently, some of these names are triggering and a form of a microaggression that offends people who aren’t white. That’s the gist of an article published by NPR, which detailed why the American Ornithological Society will change the names of bird species.

All politicians have bad ideas. Former President Donald Trump's bad ideas take on a particular character — they lack a conservative disposition in key respects. His proposal for a federally funded, "anti-woke," free university is rooted in all of these typical Trumpian errors: over-centralization, lack of prudence about the future, and a simplistic concept of both government finance and education.

Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), the chair of the subcommittee that crafted the House GOP’s annual agriculture funding bill, is casting doubt on the legislation's chances of passage this month amid divisions on abortion and spending. House Republicans had hoped to pass their remaining annual government funding bills by a looming Nov. 17 deadline to prevent a shutdown, as...

Voters don’t want to see a repeat of Americans getting drawn into a foreign war while completely ignoring a bigger national security threat – our exploding national debt. 

As the end of daylight saving time looms this year, the U.S. Congress is still hung up on whether to make it permanent. A bill to do so hit a brick wall in the House last year, despite passing the Senate by unanimous consent. The bill, the Sunshine Protection Act, was reintroduced in March by...

The Supreme Court will decide whether to uphold a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, devices that convert semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly, the court announced Friday. The Trump administration imposed the rule after a gunman using a bump stock killed roughly 60 people and wounded hundreds of others attending a 2017 music festival on...