Category: News

An international trade dispute has just taken a bizarre and constitutionally alarming turn. The flashpoint was not a disagreement over steel quotas or lumber subsidies. It was a television commercial featuring the ghost of Ronald Reagan. In a furious social media post, President Trump has announced a punitive 10% tariff increase on Canada, citing a…

California is giving Planned Parenthood $140 million to keep 109 clinics open after federal funding cuts forced closures across the state. Governor Gavin Newsom announced the bailout Thursday, making California the fourth state to replace federal Medicaid dollars that Trump’s spending bill eliminated over the summer. The money will sustain operations through early next year…

Author Michael Wolff sued First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday – the exact deadline her lawyers had given him to retract statements, apologize, and pay damages for claims he made about her and Jeffrey Epstein. The lawsuit isn’t really about defending what Wolff said, which even The Daily Beast retracted and apologized for after publishing…

The Second Amendment contains 27 words. Those words have generated centuries of constitutional conflict, dozens of Supreme Court cases, and fundamentally different interpretations of what “the right to keep and bear arms” actually means. Some cases changed everything. Others revealed how deeply Americans disagree about guns, rights, and government power. This ranking counts down the…

Christopher Moynihan was among the first rioters to breach the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison but didn’t serve his full term because President Trump pardoned him. Last week, he was charged with threatening to assassinate House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, texting “I cannot allow this terrorist to…

A U.S. Marshal and an undocumented immigrant were both shot Tuesday during an immigration enforcement operation in Los Angeles. Federal agents had surrounded and boxed in a vehicle when the driver allegedly rammed federal vehicles attempting to escape. Agents opened fire. The Marshal was struck in the hand by what appeared to be a bullet…

Thirteen House Republicans just sent Speaker Mike Johnson a letter that reveals the messy constitutional reality behind this government shutdown: both parties actually want to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies before they expire at year’s end, but they’re deadlocked over whether that should happen as part of ending the shutdown or immediately afterward. Led by Reps.…

Excavators tore into the White House East Wing on Monday, demolishing the structure built in 1942 to hide FDR’s underground bunker during World War II. President Trump is replacing it with a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom featuring gold chandeliers, gilded Corinthian columns, and checkered marble floors. The East Wing has housed first ladies’ offices since…

The standoff is stark: a President determined to send the National Guard into an American city, and a state government fighting fiercely to keep them out. This constitutional battle over the limits of federal power and state sovereignty has just taken a critical turn, as a federal appeals court weighs in on the deployment of…

A fragile quiet hangs over Gaza, punctuated by sporadic violence and increasingly sharp accusations. The ceasefire brokered between Israel and Hamas just over a week ago is holding – barely. But reports of deadly clashes, disputes over the return of bodies, and stark warnings from both sides paint a picture of a peace built on…