A senior leader of France’s hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party is facing criticism after claiming that France was never a “white” or “Christian” country, dismissing such descriptions as a fantasy promoted by the political right. Mathilde Panot, who leads the parliamentary group of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s LFI party in France’s National Assembly, made the remarks […]
A Sikh man who fatally stabbed an 18-year-old college student after falsely accusing him of racism has been sentenced to life in prison in the United Kingdom, while the victim’s family continues to demand accountability for the police response that left their son handcuffed as he lay dying. According to reporting from The Daily Wire, […]
Virginia officials are facing the possibility of contempt proceedings after gun rights advocates accused the state of ignoring a federal court order and quietly resuming enforcement of portions of its universal background check law. The dispute centers on a lawsuit challenging Virginia’s 2020 universal background check requirement, which mandates that most private firearm transfers be […]
The United States is reportedly discussing a significant expansion of NATO’s nuclear-sharing arrangements that could eventually place nuclear-capable aircraft in Eastern European countries such as Poland and the Baltic states. According to a report from the Financial Times, U.S. officials have signaled openness to expanding NATO’s nuclear posture beyond the nations that currently participate in […]
An American tourist was killed after being caught in the middle of a violent gun battle involving Mexican troops in one of Mexico’s most popular beach destinations, authorities said. The 31-year-old California man was among five civilian bystanders struck when a firefight erupted late Saturday near the Costa Dorada neighborhood of San José del Cabo […]
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) is reminding Maine Democrats that she remains on the ballot in next week’s U.S. Senate primary, raising new questions about whether voters could turn to the veteran governor as frontrunner Graham Platner’s campaign continues to be engulfed by controversy. “People have the impression that I ‘withdrew’ or ‘dropped out,’ but I […]
It seems that public institutions in Kansas see laws as mere suggestions. At the University of Kansas’s School of Social Welfare, for example, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is still heavily injected into the curriculum, in spite of a law banning such practices. “We’re an accredited program and so we have to teach anti-racist diversity, equity, […]
Just when Americans thought the border crisis couldn’t get any more brazen, authorities have uncovered a sophisticated underground tunnel connecting Tijuana, Mexico, to the San Diego area — complete with lighting, ventilation systems, and equipment designed to move contraband beneath one of the busiest border crossings in the United States. Mexican authorities announced the discovery […]
Consider a question most citizens never pause to ask. What is a police department actually for? The answer, properly understood, is narrow and demanding. A police force is the community’s delegated authority to use coercion, and that delegation is justified only when the coercion protects the rights of citizens. The badge is not a private […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) — TOPLINE STORY: Our military is built for the wrong century. Ukraine and Iran have shown us that war as we’ve known it is over. We have assumed that if U.S. ever has to fight a war, we are going to have technological superiority; that we have military primacy in the world and […]
The FHFA director will lead the U.S. intelligence community on an acting basis despite having no prior national security experience. President Donald Trump has selected Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte to serve as acting director of national intelligence, replacing departing intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard in a move that surprised many observers inside Washington. […]
Biden’s Lawfare Strategy May Have Backfired On His Own Party
A familiar argument says that one needs only study the prosecutions of Donald Trump and his supporters to see how deeply the FBI and DOJ were corrupted during Joe Biden’s presidency. That argument has force, but it also carries a predictable burden. Many readers will dismiss it as partisan grievance, even when the record shows […]