As the National Park Service continues its annual week to draw attention to its properties around the country to encourage tourism, the process is a bit different this year, as it comes at a time when the Department of Government Efficiency has reduced budgets. The Washington Examiner is taking a closer look at those effects […]
Harvard University found itself at the center of the Trump administration’s push to influence higher education after refusing to accept the White House’s terms for federal grant funding on Monday. Now, facing a $2 billion funding freeze, Harvard must look elsewhere to pick up the slack or be forced to make substantial cuts to its […]
Nothing says conservatives are back more than this: In two weeks, CPAC will host a one-day conference in Beverly Hills to challenge the epicenter of “woke” culture head-on. It will be the first time the representative of activist conservatives will host an event in Hollywood, where center-right politics are mocked and shunned. But it comes […]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) expressed fear over possible retaliation from the Trump administration, telling nonprofit organization leaders in Alaska that she is “very anxious” about using her voice. While speaking at the Foraker Group’s leadership summit in Alaska on Monday, Murkowski was asked what she would say to voters who are afraid of recent policy […]
UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, saw a 20% dip in stock values on Thursday. It blamed higher-than-forecast medical spending in its private Medicare offerings. The health insurance company also diminished its guidance for the full year to a range of $26 to $26.50 a share in adjusted earnings. In December and then reaffirmed […]
The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court late Wednesday to intervene after a lower court threatened to hold officials in criminal contempt over a controversial round of deportation flights to El Salvador in March. The Justice Department’s emergency request to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals follows a blistering order from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who said […]
At a 1976 movie premiere in Mexico City, Mario Vargas Llosa famously punched his soon-to-be ex-friend, novelist Gabriel García Márquez, in the face. Some theorize the ruckus was about Vargas Llosa’s wife. Others believe it was a row over politics, as Vargas Llosa would soon refer to García Márquez as “Castro’s courtesan.” I like to think the latter happened. […]
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling reacted on social media to the United Kingdom Supreme Court ruling that women must be biologically female, joking that she loves “when a plan comes together.” The U.K. Supreme Court found this week that “the terms ‘women’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and […]
(The Center Square) — A coalition of New York business groups are calling on the Hochul administration to put the brakes on the state’s California-inspired rule banning sales of gas-powered vehicles by 2030, saying the mandate will cost jobs and drive up consumer costs. In a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul, the groups said New […]
(The Center Square) – U.S. Reps. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, and David Joyce, R-Ohio, have introduced a bill to fight organized retail theft. The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act establishes an Organized Retail and Supply Chain Crime Coordination Center within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Titus’ press release says this coordination center will improve collaboration […]
