In 1990, Paul Ehrlich mailed a check for $576.07 to an economist named Julian Simon. Simon had bet him that the price of five metals would fall over a decade. Ehrlich took the bet because he believed scarcity was inevitable. Every price dropped. The market…
Rep. Thomas Massie is running a new campaign ad that features a notable piece of political history: the time Donald Trump endorsed him. The Kentucky congressman, facing a Trump-backed primary challenger in 2026, is making the case directly to voters that he and the president…
The Boston-based First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way Monday for the Trump administration to resume rapid deportations of illegal immigrants to countries other than their own, lifting a lower court order that had stalled the policy for weeks. A 2-1 panel granted…
Top congressional Democrats have referred former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation, alleging she committed perjury by claiming Donald Trump personally approved a $220 million advertising campaign that featured her riding a horse at Mount Rushmore. Democratic Representative…
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer and plans to continue serving in her role while undergoing treatment, President Trump announced Monday. Trump, sitting alongside Wiles at the White House, said she would begin addressing the diagnosis immediately…
Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have identified a sound captured off the coast of Bermuda in March 1949 as the oldest known recording of a humpback whale song. The recording, discovered last year while researchers were digitizing old audio archives, predates scientist Roger…
Senate Democrats have now blocked funding for the Department of Homeland Security four times, all while positioning themselves as the adults in the room who want the shutdown to end. The contradiction would be impressive if it weren't so dangerous. Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan…
U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor ruled on Friday to temporarily block the Trump administration's effort to collect race-based admissions data from universities, extending the deadline for compliance to March 25 while he weighs a challenge brought by 17 blue states. The ruling hands a…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's family has multiple connections to Susan Abulhawa, the anti-Israel activist who has called Jews "cockroaches" and "vampires," even as his spokespeople scramble to put distance between the mayor's household and the 55-year-old novelist. Mamdani's office claimed his wife, 28-year-old…
A public school in Calgary told parents it would turn its cafeteria and learning commons into "No Food Spaces" during lunch for the duration of Ramadan, restricting where children as young as nine years old can eat so that fasting students aren't exposed to food.…
Thousands of spring break beachgoers fled across the sand in Daytona Beach over the weekend as gunshots rang out, the latest in a string of shootings that have rattled the Florida city since Friday. Wild video captured the moment screaming, bikini-clad sunbathers scattered in every…
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr fired a warning shot at American broadcasters running Iranian propaganda, and President Trump made clear he's fully behind the effort. The dispute centers on AI-generated content produced by the Tehran regime that networks have aired as though it were legitimate war…
Sophia Negroponte, the adopted daughter of former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of 24-year-old Yousuf Rasmussen inside a Maryland Airbnb six years ago. Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Terrence McGann handed down…
Video footage captured by congressional observers shows a third-party election vendor in Maricopa County processing live ballots and performing signature verification during the 2024 election at a facility miles from the official county election center, where bipartisan monitors typically witness such activities. The footage prompted…
