Old-fashioned morality is not popular these days, and few old virtues are more reviled than “civility.”

Several Ohio Republican lawmakers are proposing to strip courts of the authority to review cases related to implementing the newly passed Issue 1 abortion amendment. In a statement released Thursday, four GOP lawmakers claimed without evidence that there was "foreign election interference" in the vote to pass Issue 1, and threatened to block the ability...

Former President George W. Bush sent a Veterans Day message amid ongoing wars, calling on Americans to “stay positive.” “My advice is to stay positive because if you study world history or U.S. history, we go through cycles of being down,” Bush told Fox News. “And yet, Americans ought to realize how blessed we are...

President Biden spoke over the phone with the sultan of Oman on Friday to discuss regional cooperation amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the White House said. Biden and Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said discussed the “importance of sustained humanitarian access and the importance of protecting civilians” in Gaza, according to the White House....

About 1.3 million people were affected by a data breach in Maine earlier this year, the state revealed Thursday. The breach was part of a massive cyberattack in May that exploited a vulnerability in the widely used MOVEit file-transfer system. Several U.S. federal agencies, including the Department of Energy and the Department of Health and...

FBI agents seized the electronic devices of New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) amid an ongoing federal investigation into his campaign fundraising, reports said Friday. Agents approached Adams on the street and asked his security detail to step away, a source told The New York Times. They provided the mayor with a warrant and...

A federal appeals court struck down the Biden administration’s limits on so-called “ghost guns,” affirming a lower court’s ruling Friday that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives didn’t have proper authority to change its rules. The ATF rule change specified the definitions of “firearm” and other terms in order to regulate the production...

A quick recap of the day and what to look forward to tomorrow {beacon} Evening Report   © Getty Images White House boosts veterans' health coverage As the U.S. observed Veterans' Day on Friday, the White House announced expansions to veterans' health care along with a task force designed to protect veterans from scams. ...

Columbia University suspended two student organizations that have led protests calling for a cease-fire in Israel's war on Hamas militants in Gaza, which has killed thousands of civilians, the university announced Friday. University Vice President Gerald Rosberg cited campus safety in announcing that Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)...

In his first public interview since being arrested, Joseph Emerson, the off-duty pilot who was charged with trying to cut a plane's engines, said he thought he was in hell before the flight and admitted he made a big mistake. Emerson is a pilot for Alaska Airlines. Last month, he boarded a flight while not...