Newsom Set To Sign $50 Mil ‘Trump-Proofing’ Plan After State Dems Vote Down Amendment Blocking Aid for Illegal Immigrant Felons

Democrats refused to debate an amendment to add those assurances to their legislation California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) (Getty Images) California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) is set to sign a $50 million plan aimed at suing the Trump administration and blocking its mass deportations. State Democrats passed the plan on Monday—after voting down an amendment

Inside the Lobbying Push To Preserve Biden’s Crackdown on Gas-Powered Water Heaters

Company behind Capitol Hill memo won $25 million green grant from Biden admin (Win McNamee/Getty Images) A company that embraced the Biden administration’s efforts to force climate-friendly requirements on residential appliances is behind a last-ditch lobbying effort to save a controversial rule targeting gas-powered residential water heaters—even as other industry manufacturers say that rule will

‘Financial Boondoggle and Environmental Disaster’: Billion-Dollar Solar Project, Once a Green Energy Symbol, Moves Toward Closure

A massive Obama-era solar power plant is on the path to shutting down as President Donald Trump works to unwind federal green energy initiatives. Two of three units at the Ivanpah solar power plant, near the California-Nevada border, may cease operations next year after Pacific Gas & Electric announced last month that it would no

Trump To Restore ‘Maximum Pressure’ Campaign on Iran, Which Raked in $140 Billion During Period of Lax Sanctions Enforcement Under Biden

Executive order is reportedly aimed at ‘driving Iran’s oil exports to zero’ (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) President Donald Trump is set to restore his “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign on Iran in a bid to eliminate the country’s illicit oil exports. An impending executive order, which Trump is expected to sign on Tuesday, will reverse the Biden

Watchdog Sues West Point for Withholding Records About Its False Claims Against Pete Hegseth

West Point falsely told ProPublica that Hegseth was never accepted into the academy Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to reporters (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) A watchdog group sued the United States Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday for allegedly withholding public records related to false claims the school made to the press regarding Defense

Brown Med Puts DEI Above Clinical Skills and USAID Shutdown Threatens Foreign Climate Activists

Brown University Medical School bills itself as a “national leader in medical education and biomedical research” that has attracted “first-class physicians and researchers.” What exactly does the school mean by “first class”? To earn a promotion, faculty in the Department of Medicine must demonstrate a “commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion,” the Free Beacon‘s Aaron

Brown Medical School Gives DEI More Weight Than ‘Clinical Skills’ in Promotion Criteria for Faculty

Brown University Medical School now gives “diversity, equity, and inclusion” more weight than “excellent clinical skills” in its promotion criteria for faculty, raising questions about the quality of teaching and patient care at the elite medical school and underscoring how deeply DEI has penetrated medical education. The criteria, which are posted on Brown’s website and have