Airline pilots are very concerned by United States flight delays and cancellations amid the government shutdown and believe the effect on the industry is “only going to get worse” in the coming days, according to an airline union official. Capt. Dennis Tajer, spokesman for American Airlines’ Allied Pilots Association, told the Washington Examiner that the […]
President Donald Trump has turned to two of his closest confidants, son-in-law Jared Kushner and real estate executive Steve Witkoff, to execute a fragile Gaza peace deal, relying on personal chemistry and business instincts over traditional diplomacy to halt the war and free hostages. While Trump has taken personal ownership of the initiative, the framework […]
ARLINGTON, Virginia — Even though the trial of a sex offender, who allegedly entered a female locker room by claiming to be transgender, will not happen until February, it could still be decided by the court of public opinion through the Virginia election. A slew of cultural issues, including this case, are affecting poll numbers […]
After conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot on Utah Valley University‘s campus on Sept. 10, some progressive-leaning students and employees of universities across the country openly celebrated the attack and Kirk’s death. They pitched this online and social media hate, apparently unaware that it could have negative repercussions for them or their institutions. To date, […]
Potential violence is always a threat on the American sociopolitical scene, as it might be in any society that allows political dissent. However, a rash of deadly violence by young adults and teenagers highlights a disturbing societal trend: alleged killers emerging from relatively stable and financially secure upbringings. That was a through line in the […]
Sticky inflation and rising unemployment have raised concerns that stagflation could return. And that could be a problem for President Donald Trump, who regained the White House in the 2024 election on a platform of lower prices and broad prosperity. “It’s the worst of both worlds where you have higher prices and lower growth,” said […]
In Whose Name?, the limited-release documentary painfully and explicitly documenting the implosion of the artist once known as Kanye West, almost didn’t make it to theaters. Nor to any screen for that matter. After a bout of public antisemitism in 2022 in which the rapper-mogul-producer-aesthete now known solely as Ye threatened to go “death con […]
More than a week into the first government shutdown in nearly seven years, congressional Democrats are showing no signs of backing the GOP’s proposed clean continuing resolution that would maintain federal spending at the sky-high levels of former President Joe Biden‘s presidency. Nor do they seem willing to admit why they’re holding some 900,000 federal […]
New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli announced he would file a lawsuit against Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), his opponent in the upcoming election, for comments she made about him during Wednesday’s gubernatorial debate. Sherrill claimed during the debate, without evidence, that Ciattarelli was responsible for the deaths of thousands of adults and children while […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris criticized President Donald Trump and urged Democrats to reclaim Congress during the Washington, D.C., stop of her 107 Days book tour Thursday. The event was scheduled to start at 7 p.m., and the line to enter snaked around the block ahead of doors opening at 6 p.m., causing long wait […]
