Beginning on the evening of March 2, Jewish communities around the world observed the holiday of Purim. The occasion marks the demise of the wicked Persian vizier Haman, who sought, some 2,500 years ago, to exterminate Jews throughout the vast Persian Empire. Only the impassioned importuning of the Jewish Queen Esther persuaded her husband, the […]
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s invigoratingly loopy new horror comedy The Bride! overcomes preachiness with sheer stylishness. Although she works overtime to wring #MeToo-ready self-righteousness from the classic she is remaking (James Whale’s 1935 monster movie Bride of Frankenstein), Gyllenhaal turns out to be far less adept at feminist propaganda than she is at overseeing eye-catching photography and […]
In last week’s episode of The Pitt, an unhoused neurodivergent sex worker received physician-assisted suicide courtesy of Obamacare. And they say television has lost its values. All right, I’m exaggerating, but not by much. Now in the middle of its second season, HBO Max’s Emmy-winning hospital drama is to progressives what Fox’s “War on Terror” […]
President Donald Trump warned Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado about returning to Venezuela. The current situation and the political climate are too dangerous to do so, and the president is worried about her safety should she return. Machado and Trump met last Friday at the White House for breakfast, […]
President Donald Trump blasted the New York Times early Friday morning for its coverage of Operation Epic Fury, claiming that it showed that the U.S. was “not winning.” The president provided a list of military accomplishments so far and teased that something would be occurring “today.” “We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, […]
Former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin condemned Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Thursday for his surprise reversal on the upper chamber’s filibuster rule. Often described during his time in Congress as one of the upper chamber’s most independent minds, Manchin expressed sweeping concern that Cornyn recently flip-flopped on the long-standing Senate maneuver, which is designed […]
French President Emannuel Macron on Thursday revealed one of his troops died in a drone attack amid the Iran war. The attack occurred in Iraq. Macron said it was carried out on French soldiers stationed in Iraq to combat ISIS terrorists. The drone strike targeted troops engaged in counterterrorism training activities with Iraqi partners, the […]
The man accused of ramming his car into a Michigan synagogue on Thursday before being killed by security guards was a 41-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Lebanon, federal officials said. Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove his vehicle into the Temple Israel Synagogue on Thursday afternoon and swiftly encountered security officers who engaged him with gunfire, according […]
The Trump administration told a federal court on Thursday how it will refund companies after its sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court last month. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last month that the sweeping global tariffs imposed using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were unlawful, and a judge on the […]
U.S. Olympic bobsledder Kaillie Humphries awarded President Donald Trump her “Order of Ikkos” medal at the White House Thursday, stating that he’s the first president in history to receive one. Humphries, who won the bronze medal in monobob at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Italy last month, was at the White House to attend […]
