Insurance for the Uvalde, Texas, school district is paying for the legal fees that its former police chief is incurring from lawsuits over his conduct during the shooting at Robb Elementary School last year. Gary Patterson, the interim superintendent for the school district, told The Hill that the district is not providing additional funds for former...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) doubled down on his comments from earlier this week calling for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to resign, saying that the country should have “someone who can vote.” Feinstein, 89, has not voted in the Senate since February and remains in California while dealing with a severe case of shingles, which at...
Fox News contributor and former George W. Bush aide Karl Rove went after former President Trump on Saturday, saying that he is “worried” about a potential challenge from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 GOP primary. Rove commented on a new attack ad from a Trump political action committee that targeted DeSantis, making fun...
Evan Corcoran, a key member of former President Trump’s legal team, has recused himself from the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents after he was questioned by a grand jury last month, according to The Washington Post. Trump is under investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith over allegations that he intentionally mishandled classified documents...
A Northern Virginia school district's anti-discrimination program may actually violate the First Amendment, an appellate court ruled this week. The court determined that Loudoun County Public Schools’ “Bias Incident Reporting System” may have a “chilling effect” on the speech of conservative students, who say their views on race and gender are controversial. They ruled that...
While the reaction to the Rana Plaza disaster may have spurred the adoption of greater safety standards, it may have also slowed the country’s economic progress.
Leaked U.S. military documents include Pentagon assessments that Taiwan may be poorly equipped to hold off a Chinese air attack, The Washington Post reports. The assessments say Chinese air power would likely overwhelm Taiwanese defenses and that Chinese use of civilian ships for military purposes, among other things, makes it difficult for U.S. spy agencies...
The environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, has resulted in a rare display of bipartisanship from the state’s two senators, a hardline, Trump-endorsed, vocal critic of President Biden and a progressive populist facing the reelection fight of his life. In the wake of the February train derailment that released toxic chemicals into the Ohio town, Sens. J.D....
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated from a campaign event at a western Japanese port on Saturday after a man allegedly threw an explosive device at him. No injuries have been reported from the explosion, and a young man was apprehended at the scene, according to officials. Videos from the event appear to show...
Regulatory review will abandon objective analysis in favor of motivated reasoning, to salute rather than supervise progressive over-reach in areas like ESG and climate.
Liberals are applauding the owners of a Tennessee flower shop after it refused to provide decorations for a GOP event.
Three sons of former Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán were among 28 Sinaloa cartel members charged with fentanyl trafficking by the U.S. government on Friday. The sons, known as the "Chapitos" — Ovidio Guzmán López, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Sálazar — are recognized as the more violent sect of...
Every year, thousands of bags are lost, damaged, delayed, or stolen, data shows.
A shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday night left a man dead and injured four other people, including a girl younger than five, according to local police. Kansas City Police responded to reports of gunfire just before 9:30 p.m. Friday night at a gas station. A total of five people were shot, four of...
France’s retirement age will increase from 62 to 64 despite broad and violent protests against the measure, which was pushed by French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron signed the controversial bill into law Saturday after France’s high court approved the increase on Friday. The government plans to implement the bill by September. The bill has been...
Twitter owner Elon Musk has founded a new artificial intelligence company named X.AI, according to a Nevada business filing from last month. The filing, dated March 9, lists Musk as the company's sole director and Jared Birchall, who manages Musk's family office, as its secretary. Musk has been publicly skeptical of the future of artificial...
A Michigan mill worker has died and at least a dozen other people have been hospitalized due to an outbreak of a rare fungal infection, according to local health officials. Public health officials say 21 confirmed and 76 probable cases of blastomycosis have been identified in connection with the Billerud Paper Mill in Escanaba, Michigan....
Independent work opportunities are critical for financially strained workers when they face hardship.
Protesters rushed the stage as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) spoke during a GOP fundraising event in New Hampshire Friday, with the organization behind the protest calling him antisemitic as he gears up for an expected 2024 presidential campaign. Two women shouted “Jews against DeSantis” from the stage as they were being quickly escorted out,...
Community college enrollment has plummeted by nearly two-fifths since 2010, a staggering decline in a sector with the potential to offer the greatest value in American higher education. Enrollment in public two-year colleges dropped from 7 million in fall 2010 to 4.5 million in fall 2022, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. ...
A political action committee supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) running for president launched an ad on Friday criticizing former President Trump as a “gun-grabber” over comments he has made supporting gun control legislation. The ad from the Never Back Down PAC, founded by former senior Trump administration official Ken Cuccinelli, states that Trump promised...
Montana is poised to become the first state in the country to entirely ban TikTok after its Republican-controlled legislature passed a ban, sending it to the governor’s desk. The Montana House voted 54-43 in favor of the legislation on Friday in response to concerns about the Chinese government potentially being able to use the app...
A group of more than 250 Democratic lawmakers filed an amicus brief on Friday to request the Supreme Court to issue a full stop to “dangerous” restrictions on access to abortion pills. All Senate Democrats — except for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) — and 203 out of 213 House Democrats signed their names to support...
Former President Donald Trump on Friday filed his personal financial disclosure, offering the first glimpse into his earnings since leaving the White House. The 101-page document, filed with the Federal Election Commission because Trump is running for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, provides broad details about how much the former president made on various business...
U.S. officials knew about additional Chinese spy balloons beyond the one that traveled across the United States in January and February, according to a report from The Washington Post. The Post reported on Friday that the intelligence community also continued to have questions about the balloon after shooting it down in the Atlantic Ocean as...
