US Can Produce Rare Earths If China Stops Exports–But There’s a Catch

It could take up to five years to develop a domestic supply chain to supplant China’s global monopoly in processing rare earths into materials needed to produce everything from iPhones to F-35 fighter jets. While the United States has most of the 17 rare earth elements and 50 critical minerals underground, it has no industrial

Minnesota AG Ellison Defends ‘Routine’ Meeting With Feeding Our Future Fraudsters, Saying He Wasn’t Aware of FBI Investigation Into Them

Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison was not aware of a federal investigation into the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scheme when he took a friendly meeting with its perpetrators in December 2021, he said in a Star Tribune op-ed. His defense flatly contradicts a statement his office released months after the meeting crediting him with

THEY KNEW: 30 Times Democrats Worried (Privately) About Biden’s Decline Before the Debate Fiasco

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) humiliated herself on Sunday when asked if she regretted her repeated praise of former President Joe Biden’s mental fitness, which continued until the moment he dropped out of the race. “I said what I believed to be true,” Warren said during an interview with liberal podcaster Sam Fragoso. “Look, he

Judge Halts Trump Administration Efforts to Dismantle Voice of America

U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that the government likely violated the law in its rush to dismantle federally-affiliated media groups. A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to reverse its efforts to shut down Voice of America (VOA) and restore the decades-old federal news service. In an opinion delivered on April

Vance Calls for Stronger Defense, Trade Relations With India During Visit

The vice president said he believes there is much more the two nations could accomplish together. Vice President JD Vance called for stronger relations between the United States and India in the areas of defense and energy on Tuesday, as the two nations work to advance trade negotiations. Vance, on a four-day trip to India