President Donald Trump has a potential housing victory gift-wrapped for him in Congress — but the White House is focused elsewhere. The Senate overwhelmingly passed the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on Thursday. The legislation aims to ease the nation’s housing shortage and lower costs — issues that top the list of voter […]
The April 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in 19 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. For months when the first day of a month falls on a weekend or holiday, like March, these payments are issued on the last […]
During a CNN town hall with actor Matthew McConaughey, Oscar nominee Timothee Chalamet stated the obvious: The once-great American pastime of going to the movies is in real danger of losing its cultural centrality. “I admire people, and I’ve done it myself, who go on a talk show and go, ‘Hey, we gotta keep movie […]
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall could easily be mistaken by the unfamiliar tourist for a religious shrine of preeminent sanctity. Massive and tastefully ornate, it sits within a sprawling square of stone and is flanked by two temple-like assembly halls. Within its main chamber sits a 10-meter statue of the titular Chiang, Taiwan‘s first president. I […]
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 […]
