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Midterm elections go one of two ways. They're either a validation of the sitting president, or they're a repudiation. Historically, they've almost always been a repudiation. The 2026 midterms are shaping up to be no different - a firm rebuke to ...

The chaotic confrontation in Dearborn, Michigan, on Tuesday -- when a demonstrator attempted to burn a Qur'an and Muslim counter-protesters surged -- was more than a brief flash of drama. Along with other recent controversies in Arab-majority ...

WASHINGTON -- For the last 20 living Israeli hostages who spent 738 awful days in captivity -- starved, isolated and afraid -- the worst nightmare is behind them. "The war is over," President Donald Trump told Politico's Dasha Burns on Air Force One ...

The kindling for catastrophe was piled high. It only needed a match. The 2020s began with a pandemic that shut us in and shattered our shared reality. America became a country of strangers, speaking the same language but inhabiting different worlds.

When 10 juveniles brutally attacked former DOGE whiz kid Edward Coristine - nicknamed "Big Balls" - in an attempted carjacking that left him bloodied, Washington, D.C.'s violent crime rate exploded into a political flashpoint. President Trump's ...

Former Harvard president Larry Summers has now lost virtually every professional association after a House committee released emails of his exchanges with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. There are around 20,000 pages of them. Many of the ...

The Left and some on the Right went crazy over President Donald Trump's recent tweet. He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure. He promised ...

The Trump-trashing elitist media erupted in outrage when President Donald Trump told ABC White House reporter Mary Bruce she was a "terrible person" and "terrible reporter" and ABC was "fake news." Bruce was throwing hardballs at Trump and Saudi ...

The newspapers routinely play Hide the Ideology when liberal judges are resisting President Donald Trump. They'll write "a federal judge" ruled against Trump and not tell consumers that the judge is a liberal. Liberals are always painted as ...

Russia's economic prosperity over the last three decades has been a smokescreen for moral bankruptcy and global incompetence. Sen. John McCain recognized this truth back in 2014 when he declared that Russia is "a gas station masquerading as a country ...