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In December of 2016, The Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity grid through a Vermont utility company, leaving millions without heat. This was serious stuff. President Barack Obama, the paper ominously ...

In my testimony before the Senate last week as chair of the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and Oversight Committee, I outlined the genesis of Minnesota's massive fraud scandal, how it expanded under relaxed COVID-era rules, and what steps the ...

When a violent crime is committed, it tends to feel not just unwarranted but random. When a murder, sex crime, or burglary happens, we often ask, "How did this happen?" Even worse is when a violent crime is committed by someone with a violent ...

Health officials in South Carolina recently declared the 2026 Spartanburg County measles outbreak over. The outbreak involved nearly 1,000 cases, the largest in the U.S. in more than 30 years. For those who follow that and other 2025-2026 outbreaks,

The ranks of would-be presidential assassins are a cavalcade of losers, yet the latest shooter who set out to murder Donald Trump -- the man who opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Sunday -- turns out to have an elite educational ...

There have been more than 150 guaranteed income pilot programs implemented across the country, but only one has made its program permanent - Cook County, Illinois. The county, which includes Chicago, became the first place in America to commit to a ...

Once you burn your credibility, it's hard to get back. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger deceived voters and concealed her true leftist agenda to win the Governor's Mansion last year. Now she and her fellow Democrats are lying to Virginians about a ...

This November, delegates from nearly 200 countries convened in Brazil for COP30 - where COP stands for "Conference of Parties," and the number 30 reflects the number of such events since the very first one in Berlin in 1995. Stemming from a UN ...

Demonizing greedy bankers and landlords is the last refuge of the poorly polling politician. And, as affordability remains a leading issue among voters, the Trump administration has regularly used rhetoric and ideas that mirror those of progressive ...

As a leftist Muslim immigrant from Somalia, radical Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is wonderfully blessed with a DEI press. She is perennially assumed to be a victim of racism, sexism and xenophobia whenever she is criticized, and especially when she's ...