“What up, Council?” said the comedian J.T. Parr, greeting the Pasadena City Council in a surfer persona. Then he got to the point: “Americans are united in our hatred of data centers. They’re big, ugly water guzzlers.” He’s right. America the Polarized has found some agreement
American higher education is in crisis. Changes to student loan financing , a decline in the number of international students , and a weaponized federal research apparatus are creating historic challenges for everyone. Every day, new pitfalls emerge out of Washington and state
Every nation sustains itself with mythmaking. This is why Augustus commissioned Virgil to write The Aeneid at the moment the emperor was transforming the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire, why the British monarch is crowned atop the Stone of Destiny, why Marianne looks over
The Democratic presidential primary is shaping up to be one of the most wide-open contests in decades, with no clear front-runner in sight. Still, several Democrats are already separating themselves from the pack, according to strategists, donors and other operatives within
The AI boom is fueling massive demand for memory chips, forcing electronics manufacturers to grapple with rising prices that are starting to trickle down to consumers. Memory chips, which are responsible for storing and processing data, are a key component in everything from
House Republicans are staring down a tight legislative calendar after an intraparty revolt forced Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to send lawmakers home early last week for the second time in a row, squeezing an already limited window for the party to advance an ambitious agenda
Donald Trump has a new favorite word. He’s been calling Democrats “communists ” ever since a few democratic socialists won the party’s House primaries. “These are hardcore, godless communists,” he told the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference last month. “This is the most
A sour, anti-incumbent mood is sweeping across the nation on its 250th anniversary in what political analysts say is an especially troubling sign for Republican control of the House and Senate, given President Trump’s slumping approval rating. Rising voter anger with the status
Ever since the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in June, MAGA personalities have really gone off the rails. Many angrily started saying it’s time for the U.S. to find new ways to bar women from coming to this country and having babies. Some are talking about
Charlie Baker, the president of the NCAA, said the Protect College Sports Act effectively “deals with” many of the issues facing his industry. “What we're really trying to achieve is some sort of national framework so that you can have national championships and national
Millions of Americans celebrated the country’s 250th birthday on Saturday, with cities large and small coming together to mark the occasion in their own ways. That includes Somerset, Ky., and Bristol, R.I., where fewer than 35,000 people combined lived as of the 2020 U.S.
President Trump will host officials from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq in the Oval Office on Monday, to mark his administration’s launch of new investment accounts for children. The Treasury Department launched the “Trump Accounts” on July 4, allowing the
A new report from the White House Domestic Policy Council labels leaders at the Smithsonian Institution as “extreme” activists attempting to impose their own ideology on how American history is presented. The 162-page report, released on July 4, alleges the Smithsonian’s
Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy, who are turning to AI to teach their kids instead of traditional schools.
Dr. Debra Houry, the former chief medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), decried the direction of the agency under Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “I think the secretary has caused a lot of
President Trump will meet Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, during his trip to Turkey for the annual NATO summit. The president leaves for Ankara on Monday evening for the two-day summit, according to a senior White
Florida Rep. Carlos Giménez (R) on Sunday said President Trump should seek to “normalize” longtime U.S. immigrants as his administration grapples with the fallout of mass deportation efforts. “I don't think anybody wants criminals to be here. I don't think anybody wants gang
The Trump administration’s latest restrictions on private AI model releases are ramping up the push for open-source alternatives. Under President Trump, the federal government has restricted the release of private AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, wielding a kill-switch over
Retired Gen. Jack Keane on Sunday said the U.S. has "got to stop" Iran from maintaining control of the Strait of Hormuz. "Certainly, if Iran does any major attack, that's something that would put us back into major combat operations," Keane said in an interview on "Sunday
Florida Rep. Carlos Giménez (R) on Sunday said efforts to deport Haitians after the Supreme Court ruling upholding the Trump administration’s decision to rescind temporary protective status (TPS) would be a “mistake.” “In the case of Haiti, without a doubt, Haiti is a failed
Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow (D) suspended her campaign on Sunday, amid low polling numbers in the race. “Today, I’m announcing that I am suspending my campaign for United States Senate. And I’m doing it with a deep, deep sense of gratitude,” McMorrow said in a
President Trump called FIFA President Gianni Infantino to review the red card issued to Team USA’s Folarin Balogun during the match against Bosnia and Herzegovina, a White House source familiar with the call told The Hill. FIFA announced Sunday that Balogun's one-game
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Sunday said there “is something wrong” with President Trump making $1 billion in cryptocurrency. “I do have an issue with some of the ways that we’ve now seen how we deal with cryptocurrency,” Moore said on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that property owners are not entitled to fair market value when the government seizes and sells their home to satisfy a debt, but the process must be fair, and the Pung family's case was sent back to a lower court to decide whether the auction of
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) distanced himself from some of the ideas previously promoted by democratic socialist candidates, saying he does not "prescribe to an ideology." Fox News's Shannon Bream listed various ideas advocated by democratic socialists who have notched
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said Vice President Vance’s language in foreign policy speeches has been “dangerous” and “destructive" on the world stage. “I think it's really dangerous and destructive, the language the president — by the way, even more so the vice president
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said "birthright tourism" has "devalued" the 14th Amendment after President Trump called on Congress to tackle the issue of birthright citizenship following the Supreme Court's recent decision. Johnson praised Justice Clarence Thomas's
The U.S. is facing a declining birth rate due to a lack of paid leave, discrimination against pregnant workers, unaffordable childcare, and wage gaps between men and women, as well as severe abortion restrictions, all of which make motherhood less appealing and feasible.
Two areas where concerted diplomacy could still materially improve the outcome stand out.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said the House will attempt to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act "one more time" through a budget reconciliation bill. "The president has that as a top priority, and so do I," Johnson told Fox News's Shannon
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) on Sunday said following President Trump's Independence Day address that the commander in chief has “accumulated” more power than the founding fathers would have hoped for, echoing consistent criticism from Democrats. “Only more recently do we
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the Trump administration’s frontman for waging war on Iran during weeks of kinetic operations aimed at decimating its nuclear threat. Since President Trump signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran to end the war, without securing
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said, "There are many Mamdanis popping up," referring to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in talking about democratic socialists winning recent Democratic state primaries. Johnson echoed President Trump's claim that communism is a
The promise of agentic AI is massive — the problem is we cannot currently deploy agentic AI at scale, because today's systems are not yet reliable enough.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Sunday said the algae in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is “all gone” after a $14.6 million renovation to the landmark was overrun with muddy green water. “The algae is all gone. I mean, that was a momentary thing as the [Reflecting Pool]
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Sunday said he disagreed with the beliefs of a white nationalist group that marched through the nation’s capital on Independence Day but defended their right to do so, despite concerns from local residents. Approximately 400 masked people
"Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the
The technology could be used to send probes across interstellar space to other star systems.
President Trump in a late night post praised Saturday’s fireworks show in Washington, D.C., describing the explosive display across the night sky as the “best” ever. “Best fireworks show, EVER,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post moments after he addressed the nation for
President Trump called FIFA President Gianni Infantino to discuss the red card given to Team USA's Folarin Balogun during Wednesday night's game against Bosnia and Herzegovina, an person familiar with the conversation told The Hill. Trump later cheered the reversal, calling it
Around 8 people, including 4 children, were shot in Brooklyn's Coney Island during the Fourth of July festivities late Saturday night, according to media reports. PIX11, a Nexstar affiliate, reported that the New York Police Department (NYPD) responded to the shooting on 2929
Vice President Vance insists that, these days, Watergate would amount to little more than “a 12-hour news story." We draw different lessons.
President Trump on Saturday said in his Fourth of July speech on the National Mall that he "wasn't treated that well" in a reference to his legal battles and felony conviction as it relates to the American right to equal justice under the law. The remarks came while the