French health officials estimate that the country’s historic June heat wave contributed to more than 5,700 excess deaths, according to preliminary research released Wednesday. The heat wave, which gripped much of France from June 17 to July 2, coincided with 21,674 deaths from all causes in the affected regions, compared with an estimated 15,910 deaths […]

A House Democrat likened the White House’s investigation into the Smithsonian Institution’s alleged left-wing rewriting of American history to an Orwellian takeover by a “fascist” government. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) attacked President Donald Trump’s executive order to “restore truth” to the Smithsonian’s telling of American history at its National Museum of American History during a […]

President Donald Trump may be campaigning in Georgia, but one of the candidates he is supposed to be stumping for, Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), won’t be. Collins, who is the Republican nominee running to unseat incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), will remain in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday as the House barrels toward several votes on […]

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) defended her amendment to the fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, arguing that “chopping off body parts does not make a better soldier,” and saying the U.S. military should focus on producing “the toughest warfighters in the world.”  “We want the toughest warfighters in the world, not a military gutted by […]