Politics

President Donald Trump is ranting about wind power again, and a top Republican lawmaker is pushing back. “Windmills, and the rest of this ‘JUNK,’ are the most expensive and inefficient energy in the world, is destroying the beauty of the environment, and is 10 times more costly than any other …

The Onion published a full page ad in the New York Times mocking the “cowardice” of Congress in the face of the Trump administration’s “growing assaults on essential liberties.” A printed copy of the satirical paper’s editorial — which was planned even before Trump dropped a “payload of bombs” on …

Israel says its military action against Iran is intended to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring a nuclear weapon. As the United States considers joining Israel’s fight, the finer details of Iran’s nuclear weapons program and the negotiations to end it are fading into the background, and the WMD rationale …

Donald Trump’s State Department ended a three-week pause on student visa processing, but people applying for those visas now could be rejected if they do not make their social media profiles public. Immigration officials are vetting students for their political stances, particularly any pro-Palestine activism. “A U.S. visa is a …

Pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil was released on bail from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Friday, per a judge’s order, after being incarcerated for more than three months. During a press conference Saturday, Khalil said he will continue to protest for Palestinian human rights. The Columbia University activist missed the …

President Donald Trump is demanding that a special prosecutor be appointed in order to investigate his 2020 election loss, based on his disproven claims that “MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING” fraud was responsible for Joe Biden’s victory. “Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is …

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) urged drug industry executives and advocates this week to personally reject anti-science politicians. Speaking before the BIO International Convention in Boston on Tuesday, the rising Democratic star took aim at President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him “completely …

Every Summer, my wife and I pack up our three kids and the family dog and drive an hour-and-a-half from our home in Portland, Oregon, to the forested shores of Timothy Lake for a camping trip. The lake is technically a reservoir — with a small dam at the western …

The Democratic primary to unseat disgraced New York City Mayor Eric Adams is in full swing. With only a few days left to cast ballots, the uber-wealthy and America’s pundit class are doing everything they can to promote former New York governor and current mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo and to …

After nearly three months in immigration detention, a federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration must release pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. The graduate of Columbia University — who was stripped of his permanent residence and arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in March — has been held …