Journalists gathered in Washington, D.C., over the weekend to accept awards for their coverage of the White House, culminating in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. While the event typically hosts the sitting president, President Donald Trump was not in attendance as he was returning from the Vatican for Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday. However, […]
Live Not By Lies, a new documentary series released by Angel Studios, is warning against contemporary western culture’s love for comfort, safety, and security as a disguise for totalitarianism’s political entrance. The four-part documentary series, released in April, features interviews with survivors of Soviet totalitarianism. Based on his book that shares the same title, executive […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — At least nine people were killed when a man drove into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver, and an unknown number were injured, police said Sunday. The vehicle entered the street at 8:14 p.m. on Saturday and struck people attending the Lapu Lapu Day […]
President Donald Trump’s executive order on protecting female-only athletic opportunities from biological men has had significant implications for institutions bound by Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in any educational programming or activity that receives federal funding. Those on the front lines of the culture war, however, say the fight for fairness in women’s sports […]
Democrats have spent the six months since President Donald Trump’s victory scrambling for a way to tap into the populist energy that animated his campaign. They still don’t agree on where to start. Many election postmortems diagnosed the Democratic Party with a case of elitism, which proved fatal to its image among working-class voters. The […]
Young Democrats are rallying behind Democratic National Committee Vice Chairman David Hogg’s initiative to primary older incumbents as the party leadership strongly urges them to drop the issue. Earlier this month, Hogg unveiled a plan to back primary challenges on longtime incumbents in an effort to get younger people in office. The DNC denounced the […]
The Supreme Court could soon be asked to decide whether states can continue counting ballots that arrive after Election Day. A federal judge in Mississippi this week indefinitely halted court proceedings in a Republican-backed lawsuit challenging the state’s ballot receipt deadline, signaling that state officials must petition the Supreme Court for review in order for […]
If the White House Correspondents’ Association thought President Donald Trump‘s first term was rough, it might now be clamoring for the glory days of 2017-2020. In his second term, Trump has continued his habit of chiding the media but has added to it lawsuits, investigation threats, and attempts to cut thousands of journalism jobs at […]
China has begun exempting certain U.S.-made goods from its 125% tariff, according to multiple reports. A Wall Street Journal report on Saturday detailed the move from Chinese officials to exempt U.S.-made semiconductors, chipmaking equipment, medical products, and aviation parts from the steep tariff it levied after President Donald Trump imposed a 145% tariff on the […]
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday named a veteran aide and confidant as his new vice president. It’s a major step by the aging leader to designate a successor. The appointment of Hussein al Sheikh as vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization does not guarantee he will be the next Palestinian president. But […]
