Russia launched a wave of attacks against Ukraine on Friday, hitting the Eastern European country in several cities, including its capital, Kyiv. In Kyiv, four people were killed (though there were conflicting reports on that number) and 20 others were injured as Russia bombarded the Ukrainian capital with missiles and drones, according to multiple reports. […]
President Donald Trump’s administration and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have focused on the threat of artificial food dyes, promoting natural alternatives instead. However, confusion remains regarding the administration’s next steps. When Kennedy announced an artificial food dye ban in late April, it was difficult to determine its precise nature, […]
Israeli officials are concerned that the White House seems to be pivoting away from hawkish attitudes in the Middle East with its widespread layoffs. Key advocates for Israel and hawks against Iran within the National Security Council and President Donald Trump’s diplomatic team have been among many staff members let go in recent weeks. Israeli […]
Since its cinematic release on May 23, 1980, Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece The Shining has terrified and perplexed audiences in equal measure. While the Stephen King novel it is based on is a classic example of what George Orwell called a “good bad book” — in other words, a superbly executed potboiler that has no […]
Caffery Bone, the literary editor of a London periodical, receives an invitation to stay at the mansion of the publication’s proprietor. It doesn’t bode well. Bone is painfully aware that Lord Ower has a track record of hosting those he wants to fire. He casts his mind back to three previous employees who had their […]
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Thursday that the Democratic Party has trouble making the case that President Donald Trump is corrupt because of the past abuses within its ranks. “When we talk about Trump’s corruption, we’re not terribly credible because the American public looks at Democrats and assumes that we’re just as corrupt,” Murphy said […]
Vice President JD Vance stepped up in support of President Donald Trump as the president feuds with former close adviser Elon Musk. Vance largely took a back seat during the quarrel, which resulted in the pair lobbing threats at each other like Trump revoking government contracts for SpaceX or Musk decommissioning the Dragon spacecraft. “President […]
When Alasdair MacIntyre sat down to write After Virtue in 1981, he didn’t just pen a book — he launched a philosophical rebellion. The Scottish American thinker, who died on May 21 at 96 in South Bend, Indiana, took a sledgehammer to the moral flimsiness of modern life, arguing that we’d lost our way in a fog of […]
After days of public discontent from Elon Musk aimed at Donald Trump‘s “big, beautiful bill,” the relationship between the president and his former Department of Government Efficiency chief unraveled before the world Thursday. The feud saw Musk attack the president and Republican leadership on the tax legislation before escalating into claims of Trump’s alleged connections […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt brushed aside a question from a reporter on Elon Musk‘s assertion that Donald Trump hasn’t released the files regarding the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein because the president is in them. Musk feuded with Trump on an epic scale Thursday, appearing to call for his impeachment and decommissioning […]
