Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration just did something messy and headline‑worthy: it sued to block the City Council’s RESPECT Check Act, the law that would give up to $10,000 in one‑time payments to thousands of New York City paraprofessionals. The United Federation of Teachers immediately moved to intervene and has launched a public pushback. What started […] More

Ryan Reynolds went to the premiere of his Cold War movie Mayday, told Variety that “the ’80s was a brutal, brutal time” and that nostalgia “paves over all the trauma,” and then a short clip lit up social media. In a few seconds of on‑the‑record commentary, Reynolds managed to annoy a lot of people — […] More

Attorney Alina Habba’s on-camera revelation that FBI agents allegedly appeared at her New Jersey home and that she was subpoenaed in her capacity as a lawyer has sent shockwaves through patriotic, liberty-minded Americans. Whether every detail of her account is independently verified yet or not, the claim deserves scrutiny because it touches the core of […] More

Energy Secretary Chris Wright did not mince words this week. In blunt TV interviews he said the United States is deliberately choking off Iran’s oil income — “We are strangling their economy” — while the military protects shipping and takes out vessels tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a […] More

Abdul El‑Sayed’s apology to Jewish Democrats wasn’t a warm moment of unity. It was a political move — a calculated attempt to patch a self‑inflicted wound before November. The public mea culpa and meetings with Jewish leaders are less about a change of heart and more about recognizing this Michigan Senate race is tighter than […] More

U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta has ordered the immediate release of a man in ICE custody, finding he was held too long without a bond hearing. The decision threw fuel on an already hot debate over immigration detention, sanctuary policies, and public safety. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin blasted the ruling, calling it […] More

Senator John Kennedy this Sunday told NBC’s Meet the Press what many voters already feel: inflation is “gutting the middle class like a fish.” He didn’t just toss out a sound bite. He used the moment to call out Congress and say Republicans have the tools to act — if they actually wanted to. That […] More

There are few things more raw than a courtroom where the dead are children and the question is whether a mother was so unmoored she couldn’t tell right from wrong. That is the ugly business unfolding in a Massachusetts courthouse, where the trial of Lindsay Clancy has turned into a battleground over mental illness, personal […] More

The House Republican leadership has just pulled a fast one on the Washington calendar. Speaker Mike Johnson announced the chamber will cancel the final two weeks of its pre‑election floor schedule, adjourning no later than September 17 and not returning for regular business until mid‑November. Lawmakers will be allowed back early only if the Senate […] More

Manjit Singh Bedi, the man the FBI had just added to its “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list, was arrested in Jalandhar, India after U.S. authorities said he ran a scheme that stole at least $600,000 in SNAP benefits. The capture came after the FBI and the Department of Justice put him on the public wanted list […] More

New York Attorney General Letitia James is facing a fresh headache after an assistant attorney general in her office sent a now-deleted agency-wide email accusing supervisors of telling staff to “find and pursue crimes” tied to President Donald Trump and his allies. The whistleblower, Daniel Wiesenfeld, has been placed on paid leave, and several outlets […] More

A recent conservative column compared today’s most zealous left‑wing activists to the Jacobins of 18th‑century France — the faction famous for using the guillotine to settle political scores. Call it dramatic, call it theatrical — but the metaphor is more than theater. It captures a pattern: a progressive movement that increasingly prefers public shaming, institutional […] More

President Donald Trump publicly urged Congress this week to pass a federal production tax incentive for movies and TV. In a surprise twist, Senator Adam Schiff (D-California) said he “strongly agrees,” turning what could have been a partisan fight into a rare moment of bipartisan nodding. The real story is not the feel-good unity — […] More

Archaeology has a way of making old stories harder to dismiss. Recent excavations beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem are doing just that — turning a line in the Gospel of John about a “garden” into something you can hold in your hand: seeds, pollen and the remains of ancient plants. Whether […] More

CENTCOM’s blunt announcement this afternoon changed the talking points: U.S. forces “began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran,” and at the same time the command publicly called out Tehran for spreading a false story about a tanker hitting mines in the Strait of Hormuz. That’s the new development — a military response […] More

A former Homeland Security employee quietly admitted she ripped off the taxpayers. Richeline Anisso Fung pleaded guilty to federal false‑claims charges after prosecutors say she billed multiple government agencies at the same time she was drawing a full‑time DHS paycheck. The court accepted her plea and set sentencing for Jan. 20, 2027 — a reminder […] More

President Donald Trump’s push for a federal film-and-television production incentive has drawn an unusual round of praise from Hollywood labor leaders — including SAG‑AFTRA President Sean Astin. The union’s joint statement with its national executive director hailed the president’s “vocal and determined leadership,” and other major unions and industry trade groups quickly lined up behind […] More

The U.S. military has struck two Iranian state-linked tankers in the Strait of Hormuz as part of a wider campaign to blunt Tehran’s attacks on commercial shipping — an action U.S. officials say fits a newly described “tanker for tanker” posture reportedly approved by President Trump. CENTCOM released footage of strikes and other targets, while […] More

Governor Kathy Hochul rolled out a new State Liquor Authority policy and — because nothing says serious governance like celebrity cameos — she brought Kevin Bacon to town to headline the announcement. The move officially removes the question on liquor license applications that asked whether patrons would be allowed to dance. It’s a change framed […] More

Rescuers are in a desperate race to reach roughly 900 hydropower workers believed to be trapped in buried tunnels after a violent flash flood ripped through the Nepal–Tibet border. The scenes are brutal: boulders the size of houses, rivers that changed course, and underground passages full of mud and water. This is about saving lives […] More

Good news for Republicans: the respected Harvard CAPS / Harris poll this week shows the GOP ahead on the generic congressional ballot among likely midterm voters. That 51–49 edge isn’t a landslide, but it is the first time this poll has shown the Republican side leading in the current 2026 cycle. For conservatives watching turnout […] More