Even before the Los Angeles wildfires broke out, 6 in 10 Californians said the state was heading in the wrong direction. Add in the blazes that have since exposed Gavin Newsom’s incompetent governing, and it’s clear that Newsom’s flacks have their work cut out for them. We can almost sympathize, then, with the Newsom administration’s
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to develop an American version of the Israeli “Iron Dome” missile defense system, citing an increasing “threat from next-generation strategic weapons.” Trump pledged on the campaign trail that he would “direct our military to begin construction of the great Iron Dome missile defense shield, which will
Our colleagues Andrew Kerr and Susannah Luthi published a deeply sourced report on Friday about California governor Gavin Newsom’s decision last year to disband a highly trained volunteer firefighting force known as Team Blaze. As a result, the California National Guard wasn’t able to get a complete firefighting force to Los Angeles—meaning one that included
In one case, WaPo described the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror org as a ‘small leftist armed group’ A Samidoun flier with an anti-Israel slogan. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) The Washington Post cited the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an anti-Semitic organization under U.S. sanctions for providing material support to terrorists, in a sympathetic
Liberal ‘sex symbol’ joins corporate law firm in desperate bid to hoard cash before Kamala runs for governor of California (Grok) It’s been barely a week since Doug Emhoff’s wife, Kamala Harris, stepped down as vice president after losing the 2024 election to Donald Trump, but the former second gentleman has already found a new
As Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent will be fourth in line of presidential succession (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Senate voted to confirm Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary on Monday, making him the nation’s highest-ranking gay government official in history. Bessent was confirmed by a vote of 68-29, with 16 Democrats crossing party lines to back the
Police found guns and pro-Hamas materials in the home of two students, and the FBI arrested a third for plotting a terror attack on Israeli consulate L: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (Win McNamee/Getty Images) R: Anti-Semitism lawyer Kenneth Marcus (ed.gov) In recent weeks, local and federal law enforcement officials found guns and pro-terror materials in