Mississippi and Connecticut retain investment advisers friendly to Chinese military-linked holdings to manage international assets in their public pension funds, public records show. The exact holdings of public pension funds are not always disclosed. In the case of Mississippi, for instance, its public pension fund only lists its top 10 foreign and domestic holdings in […]
The U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum will hold its eighth annual leadership summit on June 2 in Washington, D.C. The organization aims to fortify relationships between leaders from the U.S. and India by “enabling stakeholder dialogues, white papers, and specialized consultations.” This year’s event will spotlight Second Lady Usha Vance and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. […]
The blockbuster first season of HBO Max’s adaptation of The Last of Us features a high-stakes post-apocalyptic story arc that centers on the possibility of quite literally saving humanity. The unstoppable spread of a malevolent fungal strain called cordyceps has ravaged the global population and turned ordinary human beings into zombies who survive only by […]
John Cena walked into WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas with the polite shuffle of a man reporting for overtime. He walked out with the belt, the boos, and a line in the record book no future star will touch: 17 recognized world championships, all in World Wrestling Entertainment, one more than Ric Flair ever claimed […]
It seems clear that House Democrats would need to net at least three seats in the 2026 midterm elections to win a majority in the chamber, which would provide a toehold of power during President Donald Trump‘s final two years in office. If only the math were that simple. House Republicans hold 220 of the […]
In the immediate wake of former Vice President Kamala Harris‘s loss to President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, you wouldn’t find too many political pundits with a 2028 Democrat candidate bingo card ready to highlight an ESPN talking head. Still, less than five months into Trump’s second, nonconsecutive term, Stephen A. Smith‘s name is […]
A joke is a very simple thing. It has only two moving parts: the setup and the punchline. And if you write jokes for a living, as I have done for 35 years, you learn that the basic rule of comedy is that if a joke isn’t working, there are only two ways to fix […]
JERUSALEM — As the Hamas–Israel war nears its 20th month and the Israeli military has once again expanded its operations in Gaza, a long-lasting resolution could still be elusive. Despite efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration, previous ceasefires failed to permanently stop the fighting. For Hamas, the more destruction the Israeli military inflicts on Gaza, […]
For nearly 30 years, Tom Cruise and his collaborators on the Mission: Impossible series have made a series of what are cosmetically spy movies that, at their core, have really tried to perfect the art of the heist movie. With the latest entry, The Final Reckoning, he and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie have certainly made the […]
When Michael Ledeen strode into a room, you felt the air shift. It wasn’t just his towering intellect or his penchant for quoting Machiavelli with the ease of a man ordering coffee — it was the glint in his eye, as if he were perpetually plotting the downfall of some distant despot while sizing up his […]
