When Xi Jinping boarded his plane back to Beijing on Saturday, he left behind a Washington that had offered him something rare in the current era of great-power rivalry: a degree of warmth. The three-day summit between President Xi and…
A veteran federal prosecutor has retired in open defiance of the Justice Department, accusing its leadership of silencing her, throwing her under the bus, and refusing to let her defend herself in court — all while a federal judge weighs…
President Donald Trump, having barred CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from White House access on September 18, 2026, unveiled his self-styled replacement for independent journalism just days later — a YouTube live stream grandiosely titled “Trump TV: The Essentials Station” —…
A Recruit Without a Camera, a Man With a Bullet in His Back The ICE officer who shot Venezuelan asylum seeker Wilber Garcés Pérez in Austin on Sunday was a newer recruit who had been issued a body camera but…
On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, something happened that diplomats and oil traders had been watching for with a mixture of anticipation and scepticism: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sat down with US envoys…
A Convenient Reversal at the Pump On a Monday morning in late campaign season, Representative Ashley Hinson of Iowa logged onto X and posted something that would have been unthinkable a year ago. “Iowans are being squeezed and shouldn’t have…
Justin Cale was still in high school when family circumstances pushed him out of his mother’s home and into a government-run group home for boys. A job at McDonald’s helped him cover the costs of semi-independent living, and even allowed…
President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States has reached a landmark agreement with Denmark and Greenland granting Washington what he described as “permanent control over security, and all other needs” in the strategically vital Arctic territory —…
Warren Buffett’s extraordinary run at the top of Berkshire Hathaway is over — and the transition underway at the Omaha-based conglomerate offers a rare, instructive case study in what genuine corporate succession can look like when it is managed with…
A Teacher’s Discovery Shuts Down an Entire School It took one teacher noticing something wrong on the second day of school to trigger a crisis that would keep 422 students out of their classrooms for nearly two weeks. At Alexandria…