The Senate voted Thursday to advance development of a controversial spying tool, clearing it for final passage ahead of Friday's deadline. In a 67-32 vote, the Senate invoked cloture, allowing debate on the bill to begin. Senate leaders and intelligence officials have stressed the need to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Authority (FISA) or else “America will go blind.” “With less than a week until FISA authorities expire, time is a luxury the Senate does not...
Johnson is not concerned with doing what’s best for his voters or his party. He’s concerned about staying in power by any means necessary.
Stephen A. Smith will give credit where it’s due to pop music sensation Taylor Swift. This week, the mega-star Swift dropped her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, a double album that Swifties have enjoyed all week. To no one’s surprise, the album is already charting and charting high. The album has received rave reviews
Sure, yanking taxpayer money from any college looks clear and decisive on paper, but it’s a move so rife with potential unintended consequences and legal hurdles.
Speaker Mike Johnson has put 17 new bills involving Iran and Israel on the House floor schedule after Iran launched drone attacks on Israel over the weekend. He's pushed off plans for the House to vote on messaging measures against the Biden administration's regulations on home appliances like gas stoves.
Speaking before entering the courtroom in Manhattan Trump blamed Joe Biden for his being on trial.
Rwanda is an astonishing country: safe, prosperous, orderly, and open. Its success is remarkable enough given the rough neighborhood in which it finds itself. But when you think that 30 years ago this month, it was in the throes of the worst mass slaughter of the late 20th century, its achievements look miraculous. I have […]
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Australian Nuclear Free Alliance gathering, March 2024. Image by Ray Acheson. AUKUS is the awkward-sounding acronym for “Australia-United Kingdom-United States”—a trilateral military alliance that stands poised to waste billions of dollars, proliferate high-level radioactive material and impose its safekeeping on First Nations communities for hundreds of thousands of years, increase global militarism and potentially provoke a nuclear war. If this doesn’t sound like a good investment to you,...
Nigerians have always been sentimental about issues concerning Politically Exposed Persons and it is understandable.
There is more than one way to raise a house. Many of the mobile homes, Creole cottages, and other dwellings that have been flagged for flood risk along Louisiana’s low-lying coastline can be separated from their foundations and slowly raised into the sky on hydraulic jacks. While a home is held aloft by temporary support…
Democrat elites say they’re the biggest supporters of the poor, but in reality, they’re anything but. “I’m looking at what the Western world, the elites, are doing to their own countries and our own civilization,” Glenn Beck says to "Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women" author Batya Ungar-Sargon. “They are impoverishing people.” Ungar-Sargon agrees. “There has been a massive plunder of the middle class by the elites,” she tells Glenn, noting that it...