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Luc Besson’s romantic adaptation of the Dracula story owes an unacknowledged debt to Eiko Ishioka, the visionary designer of Francis Cord Coppola’s 1992 classic.
The Bondi massacre is a warning that Australia’s failure to demand integration from recent immigrants may be leading it down a dark path. Israel shows that multiculturalism can work, but only in a nation with a strong sense of identity.
Pam Bondi's lack of progress in pursuing President Donald Trump's political adversaries likely was "the final straw" for the president before naming a new U.S. attorney general, retired New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano told Newsma…
Iona Italia talks to Roya Hakakian about her book ‘Assassins of the Turquoise Palace’ and the past and present crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth's top aide is facing scrutiny after allegedly spreading a story about sneaking out in disguise with the Pentagon chief, a claim reportedly viewed by insiders as false and possibly part of an effort to root out leaks.
Reflections on the crisis of meaning afflicting not only Gen Z but all of us who are too online.
Barack Obama pinpointed a central conflict in American politics back in 2004 while talking with a group of Google executives, "Many people - they're just misinformed," he said. "They just don't have enough information, or they're not professionals…
House leaders and lobbyists rallied around Rep. Jeff Hurd (Colorado) after Trump, angry about Hurd’s vote against tariffs, withdrew support for his reelection.
The state legislature failed to push back a deadline that requires Georgia to get rid of its current voting system and find a new one — all before November.
President Donald Trump is asking Congress to boost defense spending to $1.5 trillion, the largest such request in decades and the latest signal of the president's emphasis on U.S. military investments. The 2027 plans for the Pentagon were confirme…
DHS has a new leader and a big pot of money to deliver on Trump’s campaign promise.
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An alleged MS-13 gang member from El Salvador who is accused of murdered a pastor and was released into the U.S. in 2016 is now in ICE custody, DHS says.
President Donald Trump on Friday called Vice President JD Vance the country's "fraud czar," whose focus on states led by "crooked Democrat politicians" has begun with "raids" in Los Angeles, California.
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Rep. Barry Moore, R-Ala., said Friday on Newsmax that former Attorney General Pam Bondi "missed" opportunities on the Jeffrey Epstein files, suggesting that frustration over the records helped drive President Donald Trump's decision to remove her …
Even TMZ is channeling the national discontent.
Meta clamps down on a documentary criticizing Meta. Is old-school digital censorship returning?
A slight majority of Virginia voters supports giving Democrats a temporary edge in congressional maps, but opponents are more motivated in new Post-Schar School poll.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to head to Hungary and meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as the foreign leader runs for re-election.
Many shootings at military bases have involved troops bringing guns they purchased onto base grounds and opening fire on fellow service members.
A coalition of Democrat state attorneys general announced on Friday they are filing a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's new executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting.
Gen. Randy George’s ouster is the latest clash between the Pentagon chief and the service’s senior leadership, and comes during the war in Iran.
President Trump has been talking about the emergency facility beneath what was once the East Wing, details of which are usually kept secret, as he tries to justify his renovation.
Republican lawmakers push to ban funding for transgender animal experiments in the 2027 Appropriations bill after NIH granted new research funds.
President Trump is asking U.S. allies to “go to” the Strait of Hormuz “and just take it.” Eric Schmitt, our national security correspondent, explains how difficult it would be to clear the strait by force.
The comedian was set to receive the Twain Prize before a sudden reversal of course.
Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people.
The central risk of AI is not that machines will become malevolent. It is that human incentive structures, amplified by scalable technology, outrun our ability to govern them.
The absurdity of a man who avoided Vietnam due to “bone spurs” dancing on the grave of a decorated combat veteran
Chef José Andrés joined protesters outside the Supreme Court as Trump attended arguments on birthright citizenship in a historic appearance at the High Court Wednesday.
The Colorado appeals court ordered a new sentence for Tina Peters, a former county elections official convicted for her efforts to boost Trump’s false claims.
The Islamist grandson of Hasan al-Banna convinced many Western liberals that he was a moderate because he promised to bridge a divide many feared could not be crossed.
The FBI arrested a married couple Thursday accused of fraudulently billing Medicare for $7.45 million while running a hospice with a survival rate reported to be more than 97% after five years. They were the first in a series of arrests planned Th…
The planned Presidential Capital Stewardship Program would help renovate parks and infrastructure, as Trump works to remake a city he has derided as “dirty.”
It’s the first known loss of an American aircraft inside Iranian territory since the war began a month ago.
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The U.S. is now flying B-52 bombers over Iran, a dramatic operational shift signaling air superiority after weeks of strikes degraded its defenses.
President Donald Trump's firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi sets up another Senate confirmation battle, with Sen. Thom Tillis , R-N.C., drawing a firm line on Jan. 6.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…
Several Democrats and at least one Republican on the House Oversight Committee say Pam Bondi must appear for sworn testimony regardless of her employment status.
An F-15 fighter jet went down in Iran and one of the pilots has been rescued, a source told Fox News, while a search is ongoing for the second crew member.
Indigenous “Ways of Knowing” have no place in British Columbia’s school science curriculum.
The president is in a precarious political moment seven months before the midterm elections, facing some of his lowest approval ratings and presiding over an unpopular war.
The fate of the plane’s crew was unclear, as American officials scrambled to mount a search and rescue operation.
Trump's tariffs didn't spur economic growth but did encourage trade between spurned U.S. partners.
Three Flemish universities are about to convey the sanction of university-recognised expertise to a deeply dishonest and fraudulent individual.
Economists' lurid forecasts of disaster have not been realised
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The left is creating new, obscure nonprofits to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into politics and advocacy.
"Software is eating the world," digital-tech pioneer Marc Andreessen proclaimed 15 years ago. American industries might once have been built out of steel, concrete and oil. But now, he wrote, digitally based companies like Amazon, Facebook and Goo…
Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., told Newsmax on Friday that President Donald Trump was within his authority to fire Attorney General Pam Bondi while praising her record advancing the administration’s agenda.
Pam Bondi had a feeling her days as attorney general were numbered. But she didn’t expect President Trump to drop the curtain quite so soon.
How many times can a coalition crack before it shatters?
Montana AG tells Gallatin County its refusal to recognize ICE as a criminal justice agency is legally wrong, warning 'Montana is not California.'
After Pam Bondi’s ouster, other top administration officials could be in jeopardy.
Using philanthropy for campaign donations is illegal. But an exception for some nonprofits has allowed Democratic billionaires like Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg to remain anonymous when they want to play politics.
At a closed-door meeting in 2021, ACLU attorney Chase Strangio declared, If we take away these health care options, kids are going to die.
In the wake of the Republican National Convention earlier this month, Fareed speaks with historian Niall Ferguson about how and why the modern-day GOP has changed since the Reagan era of the 1980s.
After ousting Noem and Bondi, Trump may target more cabinet members ahead of crucial midterm elections where slim GOP majorities are at stake.
The Trump administration announced Friday that it will "provide additional clarity and guidance" to religious organizations after a federal judge's decision this week to dismiss a case seeking to overturn the 70-year-old ban on political activity …
The Federal Communications Commission on Friday proposed to ban the import of Chinese equipment from a group of manufacturers after previously barring approvals of new models in 2022, the latest move by Washington to crack down on Chinese-made ele…
Throughout the country, young people are turning out and going to church. Pittsburgh has been the scene of that revival.
An 86-year-old Holocaust survivor says NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani failed to follow through on a promised housing meeting as costs soar.
Senior Army officers reacted with anger and frustration to news of Gen. Randy George’s dismissal, characterizing it as the latest blow to the service.
The New Democratic Party, which once championed the country’s unions, is now in the hands of a radicalised anti-Israel activist who wants to nationalise grocery sales and shut down oil production.
A new account of the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge attempts to straighten out the record and place the story in a broader political and theological context.
Most of today’s “artificial intelligence” is better described as artificial autocomplete than artificial mind.
An unheralded provision in the "big beautiful" tax act creates a beachhead for quality control in higher education that both parties have worked towards for three-quarters of a century. Will it survive?
Israel and the United States have already done much to dismantle the Axis of Resistance, but the broader network supported by Iran remains most active in Western Europe.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Sean Duffy is partnering with the industries he regulates in new ways.
The lawsuit, filed by an anti-affirmative action group, is part of a broader movement to dismantle programs meant to remedy the effects of past discrimination.
A new report is alleging ActBlue, the dominant fundraising platform for the left, may have misled Congress about its vetting process when accepting donations.
Vice President Kamala Harris, a former US senator from California who previously served as the state's attorney general, could be the first Black woman and Asian American to lead a major party ticket after receiving President Joe Biden's support t…
The heartbreak of hoping for a democratic Iran
The United States last December expelled Iran's deputy ambassador to the United Nations over national security concerns, Axios reported. The diplomat, Saadat Aghajani, was asked to leave the country under "Section 13 Procedures," ...
After five weeks of muddled messaging, President Donald Trump finally addressed the nation on Wednesday night to make the case for his war on Iran. That message was...still muddled. He did not articulate a clear exit plan from the conflict, fobbed…
President Donald Trump's decision to remove Pam Bondi as attorney general delivers a new disruption to an already embattled US Justice Department as it works to advance the administration's policy goals and sometimes controversial prosecutions.
His address raised more questions than it answered about the war in Iran.
Officials detained Salah Sarsour, the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, saying he had been convicted of crimes by Israel and had lied on a green card application in the 1990s.
The huge proposed increase would be partly offset by steep cuts to domestic programs, some of which the Trump administration describes as wasteful.
Trump has options to end the war with Iran, but they all come with serious liabilities.
The subpoenas, issued by Washington, D.C.'s top federal prosecutor Jeanine Pirro, a stalwart Trump ally, sought information about cost overruns in renovations at the Fed's headquarters and Powell's testimony to Congress last year about the project.
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
Demand Justice plans to tie Republicans running for Senate this year to a possible fight to fill vacancies that could emerge on the Supreme Court.
Rep. Shomari Figures ignited online criticism after remarks at a town hall on voter ID seemed to undercut Democratic opposition to photo ID rules.
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Conservatives are criticizing influencers for going too far.
The president had repeatedly expressed frustration with Bondi’s pace — and limited success — in overseeing efforts to target his rivals.
The vote by the National Capital Planning Commission on Thursday marked the final procedural hurdle for President Donald Trump’s plans.
President Donald Trump on Friday proposed to begin the process of privatizing airport security operations handled by the Transportation Security Administration, the federal agency created after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The budget proposes a 44 percent increase in defense spending, and Trump’s request comes as Congress grapples with the ballooning costs of the war in Iran.
Trump's Iran strategy aims for swift, decisive victory-crushing nuclear ambitions and ending the war in weeks, not years, without risking American boots on the ground.