Politics

Ukraine Says It's Open to Halting Attacks on Russian Energy After Trump's Claims of Deal

"The World's Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran," Trump said in a social media post.

EPA repeals Biden pollution rules for fossil fuel power plants

The Environmental Protection Agency has repealed pollution standards for fossil fuel power plants, a measure the Trump administration argues will strengthen the power grid and lower costs for customers. But environmentalists say it will worsen climate change.

Trump says he will consider releasing more 9/11 records after families’ request

Families have asked Trump to declassify records that could shed light on Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in the 2001 attacks

Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran’s US tour after ‘free Palestine’ speech

The American rapper will no longer support Sheeran’s US leg of Loop tour after comments at MetLife Stadium show

Massachusetts just legalized abortion through birth. Nobody wants to say so

Massachusetts’s barbaric new law legalizes abortion up to birth, eviscerating the state’s already weak protections for the unborn. Democratic Gov. Maura Healey just aligned her state with the tiny minority of countries that allow abortion through nine months, a garish list of anti-life regimes that include communist China and Vietnam.

A Nation of Strange, Idle Men

Jon Ronson’s The Castle argues that men are giving up on society because they have nothing better to do.

Overton can define strong pro-life leadership at the FDA

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is encouraging news for pro-life Americans. Her record suggests that after years in which pro-life concerns too often seemed secondary in the agency’s decisions, the FDA may finally have a leader prepared to align its work with the president’s commitment to protecting women and unborn children.

If schools won’t teach the truth about 9/11, TikTok will teach the lies

A quarter-century has passed since the morning the world fractured. For the educators standing at the whiteboard today, a daunting demographic threshold has been crossed. Every single student sitting in a K-12 classroom has no lived memory of Sept. 11, 2001. To them, the thick black smoke pouring from the twin towers is not cultural trauma. The gash in the side of the Pentagon is not a memory. The quiet field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, is just a place. These moments are lines in a textbook. Not for me. I get no reprieve from the pain.

Your representative doesn’t want to solve crises. They want to campaign on them

Congress has returned from its August recess, but not for long.

US airman recounts Iran rescue in 60 Minutes segment branded propaganda

Critics say segment about airman’s rescue was made to boost public perception of Trump’s unpopular war

Kennedy Center leaders say Trump’s name on facade may avoid ‘fiscal collapse’

Center’s Trump-installed leaders also say it is on brink of bankruptcy and could close as early as Tuesday

Kennedy Center, on brink of bankruptcy, could close as soon as Tuesday

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could shut its doors as early as Tuesday, according to an internal memo that revealed a deepening financial crisis and framed the physical state of the main building as endangering lives.