The US naval siege could cost Tehran about $435 million per day, experts say, putting even more pressure on the Iranian regime USS Abraham Lincoln (@CENTCOM/X) Not a single ship has breached the United States’ naval blockade in the Persian Gulf since it began Monday morning, according to United States Central Command (CENTCOM), severely damaging
Experts think it’s a bad idea—for obvious reasons ChatGPT New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani recently unveiled his plan to build a massive government-run grocery store in Manhattan. Most self-respecting experts think it’s a terrible idea—for obvious reasons. Rooted in the failed tenets of communism, the taxpayer-funded supermarket was a central component of Mamdani’s campaign
Results of Central European parliamentary elections rarely make much news in the United States, but Viktor Orbán’s defeat certainly did. The Hungarian prime minister conceded Sunday after ruling for 16 years, and many wonder if the result predicts the downfall of Donald Trump’s populism the same way that the 2016 Brexit vote foretold his shocking
Students are receiving death threats and being “told to kill themselves” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after a satirical April Fools’ article in the student newspaper and a comedy video caused an uproar over their mockery of immigration, race, and class issues on an easily triggered campus. University officials fiercely denounced
“Never just read one newspaper” is one of my media literacy rules. Sometimes even that fails, as it did on Monday April 13, 2026, when the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both weighed in with suspiciously similar, and sadly unskeptical, stories claiming that the Iran war somehow provided vindication for China’s emphasis
Few believe the Arizona senator’s claim to have been ‘shocked’ by allegations against his ‘closest friend in Congress’ Sen. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) is taking heat after a sexual misconduct scandal forced his good friend, California Democrat Eric Swalwell, to suspend his campaign for governor and resign from Congress. “An important question everyone should be
Newsom has kept his returns private as his wife rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars from her charity, which is funded by corporations that do business with Newsom’s California Gavin Newsom (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) California governor Gavin Newsom made a bold pledge as he campaigned for his first term in 2017: He would release