Republicans powered a stiff new border security bill through the House Judiciary Committee overnight Wednesday, brushing aside Democrats' complaints of cruelty and taking a first concrete step to unravel President Biden's lenient immigration policies.
Elon Musk’s journey from climate change hero to the Left’s public enemy No. 1 continued apace when he made the decision to smack NPR with a "government funded media" tag on its Twitter profile. Similar "state-affiliated media" tags have been present on the profiles of Russian, Chinese, and other state-run media outlets for some time.
Washington is full of old people, and it's worth asking if elderly politicians are physically and cognitively capable of the demands of their job. Competency should be a concern for everyone, no matter a politician's ideology, rank, or years served.
At least two people were dead after a string of severe weather, including tornadoes and hail, moved through the central U.S., leaving tens of thousands of customers without power on Thursday morning. Multiple tornadoes hit parts of central Oklahoma, killing at least two people in Cole, Okla., a small town in the center of the...
Bipartisan leaders of the Senate Finance Committee are working on legislation targeting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the middlemen in the prescription drug supply chain who negotiate discounts with drug companies on behalf of insurance plans. Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and his GOP counterpart Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) on Thursday released an outline of...
Almost 1,500 school book bans were put into place around the U.S. in the first half of the current academic year, according to PEN America. An analysis from the group released Thursday found 1,477 book bans implemented in the first half of the 2022-2023 school year, affecting 874 unique books. The six months prior, from...
Democrats (and some Republicans) will exploit the vulnerability of these “toxic six” GOP brand ambassadors, especially among battleground state voters.
More people say they think former President Trump broke the law in Georgia, where his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election are under investigation, than in New York, where he faces felony charges, according to a new poll. Just more than half of the adults surveyed in The Associated Press-NORC poll released Thursday, 53...
In February, a team of cybersecurity researchers successfully cajoled a popular AI assistant into trying to extract sensitive data from unsuspecting users by convincing it to adopt a “data pirate” persona. The AI’s “ahoy’s” and “matey’s” in pursuit of personal details were humorous, but the implications for the future of cybersecurity are not: The researchers...
Escalation paralysis continues to inhibit the Biden administration’s willingness to squarely get behind Ukraine and help it to win the war against Russia. It is as though the Pentagon’s Russian military capabilities intelligence assessment has not changed since Feb. 24, 2022, despite 14 months of devastating Russian setbacks on the battlefield, including substantial losses in...