The U.S. State Department on Monday ordered the departure of non-emergency personnel and eligible family members from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, citing security concerns amid rising tensions in the Middle East. In a statement, the department did not specify the precise reason for the move but said it followed a review of the […]
After Hospital Ship Snub, US Envoy Challenges Greenland’s Leadership
WASHINGTON / NUUK — A public disagreement between the United States and Greenland escalated over the weekend after Greenland’s prime minister rejected President Donald Trump’s offer to send a U.S. Navy hospital ship to the Arctic territory. The exchange played out largely in public, with Trump announcing the idea on social
Trump-Kennedy Center Ice Rink Vandalized
Vandals poured a toxic chemical across the outdoor ice rink at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — recently renamed the Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts — early Friday morning, forcing officials to cancel that evening’s scheduled performance. According to reports, a brown-black […]
Judge Blocks Release Of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Report On Mar-A-Lago Docs Case
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon permanently barred the release of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report reviewing President Donald Trump’s classified documents case. Cannon wrote that the release of the report “would cause irreparable damage to former defendants” in the case, which in addition to Trump include former co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira. Cannon previously […]
Trump Calls Men’s Hockey Team After Historic Olympic Victory
The United States men’s national ice hockey team celebrated a historic victory Sunday with a call from Donald Trump and an in-person visit from Kash Patel after defeating Canada men’s national ice hockey team 2–1 in overtime to capture Olympic gold. You can hear the genuine pride in Donald Trumps voice when he called the […]
Morning Brief: Victory, Vandalism & A Fight For Justice
It was a weekend of celebration, confrontation and courtroom maneuvering — from a jubilant locker room call with the commander in chief to an act of vandalism at a newly renamed arts institution, and a federal intervention in one of the nation’s largest school districts. \ A Presidential Call After Golden Overtime About an hour […]
‘ShamWow Guy’ Returns To Spotlight With Wild Congressional Campaign Announcement
Vince Offer Shlomi, best known to millions of Americans as the high-energy pitchman behind the wildly popular “ShamWow” and “Slap Chop” infomercials, is mounting a Republican primary challenge in Texas, positioning himself as an unapologetic outsider determined to “clean the swamp.” Shlomi, 61, is running as an anti-establishment Republican in Texas’ 31st Congressional District, vowing […]
Duncan V. Bonta: Supreme Court Poised To Decide The Future Of Gun Rights
By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson Ammoland Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will formally consider whether to grant certiorari in Duncan v. Bonta, a case that could reshape how courts treat bans on common firearm accessories like large-capacity magazines under the Second Amendment. The case, long simmering in the federal courts, challenges California’s ban on possession of magazines capable of […]
What Are The Best TV Shows About The American Revolution? A Historian Outlines 5 Of His Favorites
Any discussion of films and TV series about the American Revolution has to start with a caveat. Historical movies have been around for as long as movies themselves, but films and TV series about the great founding event of the United States have been thin on the ground, certainly until the 21st century. By Stuart Salmon for Smithsonian Magazine […]

The Census Decision That Reshaped The House And Redirected Billions
The 2020 census was marketed as an “actual enumeration,” a neutral count of people for apportionment and funding. It was not. The same official who helped block a basic citizenship question in 2018, John M. Abowd, then the Census Bureau’s chief scientist, pushed through a new, opaque methodology in 2020 called differential privacy. The new […]