By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The war chest is finally opening. President Trump said his super PAC will spend up to $500 million on the 2026 midterms, answering Republican complaints that it has hoarded cash while candidates go unfunded. Trump’s MAGA Inc. is sitting on one of the largest […]
By The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes President Trump said the United States will ask European allies to repay the hundreds of billions in military aid America sent to Ukraine. It reframes years of US support for Ukraine as a bill Europe owes, and it lands alongside a pause on American arms sales abroad, […]
By The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Texas Governor Greg Abbott is publicly pressing the Trump administration to release nearly $10 billion in withheld Medicaid funds, a rare Republican-on-Republican clash. Texas hospitals are losing money by the day, and the fight pits a Republican governor against a Republican administration over how hard to squeeze […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The redistricting war hit a wall. Missouri’s Supreme Court unanimously blocked the state’s new Republican congressional map and sent it to voters, a rare setback in the GOP push to redraw the House before the midterms. Republicans hold the House by three seats, […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Supreme Court will hear arguments on December 2 on whether states may ban the AR-15, the most consequential Second Amendment case since 2022. Roughly ten states and Washington, DC ban the country’s most popular rifle. By next summer, the Court will decide […]
By Brianna Lyman Written by Brianna Lyman Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The judge overseeing the Lindsay Clancy case declared a mistrial Friday after only a single juror prevented a unanimous verdict, purportedly because he was willing to convict the self-admitted baby killer. In a seeming bid to discredit the juror, Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin […]
By Jennie Jones Written by Jennie Jones Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes You are the CEO of your skillset. “Dance won’t pay well. You should choose a real job.” “There aren’t many jobs in the dance world, and it’s really hard to get into. You should have a backup plan.” And my personal favorite: after […]
By David Herbert Written by David Herbert Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes The US factories that rely on Canadian steel, parts, energy, and expertise want President Trump not to make those inputs more expensive — and American producers less competitive. In the US, we have a tendency to stamp products as “American-made” and imagine that […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The world’s richest man is reloading. Elon Musk’s super PAC reported its first wave of 2026 midterm spending, roughly $800,000 to defend vulnerable Republicans, with far more promised. Musk poured a fortune into electing Trump in 2024, then feuded with him, then made […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes A gunman shot and killed two men outside a Tucson gay bar, then himself, in what police are investigating as a hate crime aimed at the LGBTQ community. Two men are dead in a targeted attack, and a note police recovered points to […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes China’s drone monopoly flies into a wall. New tariffs of up to 100% took effect on foreign-made drones, aimed at the Chinese giant that builds most of the world’s commercial models. America’s police, farmers, and first responders fly Chinese drones because almost nothing […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Country of allegiance, not residency, decides. A federal appeals court upheld the ban on gun possession by foreign nationals on temporary visas, ruling it fits the nation’s history of disarming those loyal to another sovereign. The case draws a distinction between citizens and […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Two options, not three A federal appeals court ruled that Puerto Rico may limit birth-certificate sex changes to male or female, rejecting a demand to add a nonbinary “X.” It is a clean appellate win for the position that a government may recognize […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Sanctuary states just got a bill. The Justice Department told states they must report every illegal immigrant they know of to federal authorities or risk losing their share of billions in welfare funding. It turns a 1996 welfare law into a lever against […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes An attack on a Saudi oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz killed two Filipino crew members, the first commercial shipping deaths since the war reignited. Six months of a closed strait had cost cargo and money but not lives. That line is […]
By Gabriel Llanes Written by Gabriel Llanes Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes A warning to my fellow Republicans: Offer Americans the hard truth, or socialists will sell them the easy lie. My grandparents fled two collapses. They escaped Spain as civil war tore it apart, rebuilt their lives in Cuba, and then watched Fidel Castro […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Pentagon budget documents show the missile interceptors burned through in the Iran war will take years to rebuild, leaving American air defenses thin well into the decade. Interceptors are what stop enemy missiles from hitting ships, bases, and allies. If the shelves stay […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes A federal judge upheld Hawaii’s ban on adults aged 18 to 20 buying or owning firearms and ammunition, handing gun-rights groups a loss and the Supreme Court a question it keeps dodging. Eighteen-year-olds can vote, enlist, and sign contracts, but a court has […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Justice Department seized more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency bound for Hamas and took over the websites the group used to raise it. Hamas moved to crypto to escape the banking system that hunts terrorist money. This operation shows the money is not […]
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Justice Department sued a Kansas school district for socially transitioning students behind their parents’ backs, the first time the administration has taken a district to court over the practice. The suit turns two federal privacy laws into a parental-rights weapon, and it […]
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