FEMA Faces Critical Reform Push Amid Expanding Mission and Accountability Issues

Rep. Dale Strong (R-AL), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology, opened a key hearing to evaluate FEMA’s role in disaster response, its expanded mission, and areas in need of reform. The hearing, which comes after a year of record-breaking disasters, raises questions about FEMA’s efficiency, impartiality, and ability to focus on its

Ukraine Says Its Forces Can Keep Fighting Despite US Aid Pause

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the country’s forces retain capabilities and tools to sustain their frontline forces amid the new U.S. aid pause. The Ukrainian government is conveying optimism that its forces will be able to hold out after President Donald Trump halted aid deliveries to the embattled country. At a March 4 press

Trump Threatens To Strip All Federal Funding From Universities That Allow ‘Illegal’ Anti-Semitic Protests

Anti-Semitic incidents have surged on college campuses since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel Anti-Israel protesters, Columbia (Alex Kent/Getty Images) President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to revoke all federal funding from universities that allow “illegal protests,” referring to anti-Semitic demonstrations that have erupted on college campuses since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack

Pentagon Announces $80 Million in Savings From First DOGE Review

Press secretary Sean Parnell said that DEI and climate change programs are ‘not a core function of our military’ and constitute ‘a distraction.’ The Department of Defense (DOD) has identified more than $80 million through Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team that it says is wasteful spending, a spokesperson confirmed on