It was a couple of old guys talking about Ultimate Fighting, but it may have averted a crisis on two continents. President Donald Trump met in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 27 with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The two men, over the course of a few minutes in the Malaysian capital, made […]
California‘s new congressional maps could leave only four of the Golden State’s current nine House Republicans as winners in what’s become a high-stakes game of political musical chairs. Voters in the deep blue state, the nation’s most populous with nearly 40 million people, on Nov. 4 approved Proposition 50, pushed by Democrats to redraw the […]
The Department of Homeland Security boasted of a historic start for the 2026 fiscal year regarding the number of illegal border crossings into the country. Data compiled by the DHS revealed that the U.S. had a record-low number of border crossings in October, marking the start of fiscal 2026. Moreover, the decreased number of border […]
TORONTO — Despite an already frayed relationship between the United States and Canada, President Donald Trump recently abruptly ended trade talks with the Great White North and imposed a 10% tariff on it. The move came after the province of Ontario aired a television ad in late October that used clips from a 1987 anti-tariff radio […]
When President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariff regime finally faced its day in front of the Supreme Court, justices were skeptical. The Nov. 5 arguments revealed significant doubts about the administration’s signature policy, straddling the international and domestic realms. Justices appeared unsure on Trump’s invocation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 U.S. law […]
Former President Barack Obama’s use of executive power and pursuit of policy changes without the constraints of Congress helped set the table for what Democrats now describe as the “authoritarian” ethos of the second Trump administration. From using the Justice Department to achieve partisan goals to advancing his immigration agenda via executive actions, Obama set the […]
At the 1924 Democratic National Convention, Franklin Roosevelt introduced New York Gov. Al Smith as the “happy warrior of the political battlefield.” It’s been a popular pose on the campaign trail for more than 100 years since then, but another New Yorker chose to strike a different pose in his election night victory speech earlier […]
“Nothing in life is to be feared,” Marie Curie once wrote, “it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Curie died more than a decade before Stephen King was born, but the Nobel-winning chemist and physicist anticipated the central theme of the horror novelist’s oeuvre. Nowhere is […]
Against all odds, Hollywood has a pretty decent track record when it comes to depicting world history. Of course, no movie can capture a major historical event with full faithfulness and complete comprehensiveness, but the best ones get the big things right. Does anyone doubt that Communism was as bad as it was presented in […]
Multiple people reportedly felt ill after opening a suspicious package delivered to Joint Base Andrews on Thursday. The delivery reportedly contained a white powdery substance. Officials at the base evacuated a building after the package was opened, and multiple people felt ill. Those who reported symptoms were taken to Malcolm Grow Medical Center, where they […]
