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Fani Willis pushing for summer Trump trial even as her fate on case hangs in balance: Report

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is reportedly still hoping to start former President Donald Trump‘s Georgia 2020 election interference trial before Election Day, even as she still faces the possibility of being disqualified from the case. Willis is aiming to push forward with the trial and is expected to ask the judge for the […]

Cabrini producer says film seeks to inspire audiences to ‘serve our purpose’ amid national polarizing politics

Angel Studios’s newest film, Cabrini, never had a “political drive,” according to producer Leo Severino. Cabrini released internationally on March 8 amid the polarizing 2024 campaign talking point of immigration. The film depicts the life of Francesca Cabrini, an Italian immigrant whose compassionate heart fights to bring hope and assistance to fellow marginalized people living […]

Behind Trump’s comeback: The former president talks about his return from the depths of Jan. 6.

PALM BEACH, Florida — On March 15, the Republican Party of Palm Beach County held its Lincoln Day Gala at Mar-a-Lago, where its special guest was also its host, Mar-a-Lago owner and former President Donald Trump. Around 8:30 p.m., Trump interrupted his private dinner on the outdoor terrace (a dinner with one aide and me, […]

Boeing increasingly faces market turbulence

Aerospace manufacturing giant Boeing’s stock has regained some altitude after the COVID-19 travel industry plummet, but it continues to face significant market turbulence. Regulators from multiple countries and agencies are subjecting the company to unusually close scrutiny, for good reason. This year alone, one Boeing 737 Max had to make an emergency landing after a […]

Art of the congressional comeback: Ex-lawmakers are having better luck than usual in return bids

WEST COVINA, California — Gil Cisneros’s good luck is back. The California Democrat, previously a House member for a single, two-year term, is on track to return to Congress. Cisneros is among six former House members seeking, or having sought, a comeback in 2024. And so far, their record is 2-0. It’s unclear how many […]

Shoplifting and suffering in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO — The sharp stench of days-old urine mixed with filth and feces has become an all too familiar smell in the Golden Gate City.  So is the sight of zombielike adults, weaving on and off the sidewalks and onto the street, too blitzed on mind-bending substances and booze to realize they are just […]

Little of the Biden administration’s budget proposal is likely to make it through a divided Congress

President Joe Biden and the White House released a $7.3 trillion budget blueprint several days after his State of the Union address, in which he outlined several of his priorities. The blueprint is not an actual budget, as any spending originates from the legislative branch. Still, it provides Congress with the administration’s priorities for the […]

Paul Alexander, 1946-2024

Every now and then, we hear about people with such extraordinary spirits who defy the odds in such remarkable ways that their life stories can renew our faith in life itself. Such people occasionally become the subjects of feature films, such as Jean-Dominique Bauby, the French editor of Elle magazine who suffered from locked-in syndrome […]

Former top generals decry fatal mistakes in Biden’s disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal order

When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, one of the most pressing decisions facing him was what to do about his predecessor’s plan to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. As different as Biden was from former President Donald Trump, they both shared an intense desire to bring an end to the […]

Social Security’s retirement age is a bad deal for us all

The Right and Left don’t agree on much these days. But over on X, people on both sides of the political spectrum recently united to lambaste conservative commentator Ben Shapiro for speaking some simple truths about the untenable trajectory of retirement. “No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, […]
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