The House Conservative Climate Caucus has named Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) as its new chair, succeeding founder Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah). Miller-Meeks, who sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has attended every United Nations climate summit since her election to the House in 2020, and has long been a proponent of fossil fuel...
The American Egg Board and the Biden administration dismissed anger over the White House Easter Egg Roll and decorating contest Monday after conservatives criticized a decades-old policy banning religious symbolism. A flyer for the annual White House egg decorating contest says participants "must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan...
Abortion protections will be on the ballot in Florida this year after the state Supreme Court said Monday a proposed ballot measure can move forward. Facing an April 1 deadline to rule, the court sided with Floridians Protecting Freedom, a coalition of abortion-rights groups sponsoring the initiative. By greenlighting the measure, the court dealt a...
This month, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) proposed legislation in the Senate that would establish a 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay. The last time this topic was discussed in the Senate was nearly 70 years ago in 1955.
An ancient philosophical argument known as the Euthyphro dilemma clarifies the point about the difference between morality and the law. I
ISIS-K, the Central Asian offshoot of the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group that carried out the deadly Moscow concert hall attack last month, badly wants to target the United States, two former U.S. Central Command leaders are warning. Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, former CENTCOM head, said Sunday that the group has a “strong desire” to...
His first three months have been encouraging, but Milei has a long way to go, with roadblocks at every turn, especially from labor unions. But if he’s successful, he may provide a model for U.S. politicians who want to challenge the Peronist-like policies of Biden and his fellow progressives.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI shared a preview of a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool Friday that can generate “natural-sounding speech" and mimic human voices. The tool, called Voice Engine, requires only "a single 15-second audio sample to generate natural-sounding speech that closely resembles the original speaker," OpenAI said in a blog post. Voice Engine can provide...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign has added North Carolina to the expanding list of battleground states in which it has qualified for the ballot in November. The independent candidate’s campaign says it now has enough signatures to list Kennedy as a White House contender through the “We The People” party, gathering 23,000 pledges of support...
United Airlines is offering its pilots time off for the month of May, pointing to "recent delays in Boeing deliveries." “We can confirm that due to the recent delays in Boeing deliveries, our forecasted block hours for 2024 have been reduced and we are offering our pilots voluntary programs for the month of May to...
People are drawn to influencers who have amassed millions of followers by telling us what to eat and not eat based on pseudoscientific conjecture.
A family out fishing in the Arkansas River in Oklahoma on Saturday afternoon caught the moment a massive barge crashed into a busy highway bridge, shutting it down for hours.
Hospitals must obtain informed consent from patients before allowing physicians to conduct sensitive and invasive examinations, such as pelvic and prostate, particularly if the patients are under anesthesia, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Monday. In new guidance and in a letter sent to teaching hospitals, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and other...
More than one-third of homes were purchased with cash in February as mortgage rates remain high, according to a new report from the real estate company Redfin. The rate of all-cash purchases — defined as home purchases where the deed does not include mortgage loan information — is within striking distance of the record high...
Those of us who teach at public institutions know conservatives are flourishing mightily here.
A new study found that states with a higher percentage of Republican voters are seeing more reports of adverse side effects from COVID-19 vaccines. The study published in the JAMA medical journal looked at 620,456 vaccine adverse events reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from adults 18 and older. Researchers separately...
This is not a left/right issue. Threatening judges and their families, and exposing them to violence, crosses a red line in any civilized society.
Former President Trump's social media company plunged in the stock market Monday after reporting a $58 million annual loss in Monday regulatory filings. Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Trump's Truth Social platform, were down roughly 24 percent shortly after 1 p.m. EDT. The price of a share was down...
A law increasing the minimum wage for most fast food workers in California took effect Monday.
Israel’s legislature passed a law Monday paving the way to shut down the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network, under legislation allowing for the temporary ban of foreign news networks that the government deems a threat to national security. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would “act immediately” to implement the law against Al Jazeera,...
Hundreds of people were evacuated after a landslide caused portions of California's Highway 1 to collapse, though parts of the road remained closed Monday. Heavy rain Saturday near Rock Creek Bridge — about 17 miles south of , Calif. — caused chunks of the road's asphalt to fall into the ocean beside the two-lane road, The...
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) on Monday endorsed Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks over fellow Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) in the closely watched Democratic Senate primary in Maryland. Frost adds to the growing divide among House Democrats, who are split in their support for Alsobrooks and for Trone ahead of the May primary. The Democratic...
A senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed on Monday in an alleged Israeli strike on the Iranian Embassy in Syria's capital city of Damascus. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the IRGC's Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon, was among those killed in the strike, according to Reuters and...
President Biden will travel to Baltimore on Friday to visit the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, the White House announced Monday. “We are with you Baltimore, and we will be there to get this done," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said when making the announcement. Biden himself had vowed to visit...
President Biden on Monday said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was “uninformed” in his criticism of the White House for the Easter holiday falling on the same day as Transgender Day of Visibility. “He’s thoroughly uninformed,” Biden said during Monday’s Easter Egg Roll when asked about Johnson’s criticism, noting he did not specifically proclaim Transgender Day...
