Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election set in motion a race against time by President Biden to safeguard his environmental legacy in his remaining days as president. But his administration’s stepped-up pace of climate-related announcements will likely mean little once Trump is inaugurated and the Republican-led Congress is seated in January. Mr. Biden’s most
They said the caucus was formed to cultivate partnerships with officials at the local, state, and federal levels who are interested in MAHA initiatives. While Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued his tour of Capitol Hill in a quest to gain backing from lawmakers, a group of Republican senators launched a new caucus to support the
Lee Edwards, who died last week at the age of 92, was right from the beginning. Consider the moment of his political awakening. When Soviet tanks rolled into Hungary in 1956, crushing an anti-Communist rebellion, Lee was in Europe. He had just served his country as a U.S. Army officer in West Germany. He witnessed
An Indiana University class required students to determine their “privileged” and “dominant” identities—like being white or male—so that they could “address issues of oppression.” The mandatory exercise was part of a course that fulfills the school’s “social and historical studies” requirement needed to graduate. Students were instructed to write an “in-depth reflection of two parts
Some essential workers are not furloughed and continue with the basic duties of government, such as protecting the homeland. Unless Congress funds the government past Dec. 20, there will be a shutdown. Such an occurrence could have major ramifications, though it may not be all doom and gloom. The longest shutdown was 34 days during
Roger Carstens, the Biden administration’s top official for freeing Americans held overseas, on Friday arrived in Damascus, Syria, for a high-risk mission: making the first known face-to-face contact with the caretaker government and asking for help finding missing American journalist Austin Tice. Tice was kidnapped in Syria 12 years ago during the civil war and
The man, and a local city council member, were part of a ‘basic team’ dedicated to promote Beijing’s interests in the U.S., a Chinese agent allegedly said. The FBI on Dec. 19 arrested a close associate of a local California politician, accusing him of scheming together with a recently sentenced Chinese spy to amplify China’s