Planet circling a burned-out star offers a glimpse at the solar system’s fate
Nadia Drake Perhaps the luckiest planet in the Milky Way lives about 6,500 light-years away, toward the center of our galaxy: a large, gassy world that narrowly escaped being obliterated…
Biden’s Approval Rating Drop Sharpest Among Black Voters
By Fran Beyer The dip in President Joe Biden’s job approval rating is especially stark among groups central to his base — with the percentage of Black adults who think…
Over Half-Million Healthcare Workers Quit Jobs in August
More than half a million healthcare workers quit their jobs in August amid a surge of Delta variant COVID-19 cases, according to a report from the Labor Department. In a…
Did the Media Bury a Mass Shooting Because the Shooter Was Black?
By Charles Love That happens when two of the things you argue against the most happen in a way that makes it difficult to decry one without seemingly perpetuating the…
Federal Suit Filed Against Connecticut Law That Punishes Pro-Life Speech
By Mark Tapscott Attorneys for a Connecticut faith-based pregnancy center are mounting a constitutional challenge to a state law requiring it to provide abortion referrals, claiming the statute violates the…
Supply Chain Disruptions Force White House to Ask Walmart, UPS, FedEx to Increase Output
By Jack Phillips Carriers of goods including Walmart, UPS, and FedEx are moving to work more shifts—including 24 hours per day, seven days per week—to address global supply disruptions that…
Republicans Flip Iowa House District in Area Held by Democrats for 46 Years
By Cristina Laila Republicans Tuesday night flipped an Iowa House district in an area held by Democrats for 46 years. Republican Jon Dunwell defeated Democrat Steve Mullan in a special…
‘Star Trek’ Actor Shatner Becomes Oldest Person in Space
Actor William Shatner soared aboard a Blue Origin rocketship on a suborbital trip and landed in the Texas desert on Wednesday to become at age 90 the oldest person ever…
Federal judge finds DC jail warden in contempt, demands DOJ civil rights probe of Jan. 6 detainees
By Andrew Mark Miller A federal judge has found the warden of a D.C. jail and the director of the D.C. Department of Corrections in contempt of court Wednesday and…
Gov. Kristi Noem: We can’t rely on a debt-ridden federal government to take care of us
By Kristi Noem When I was a young girl growing up on our ranch in South Dakota, we had a sign hanging over our pasture gate where we grazed our…
Press suddenly grappling with Biden’s political slide as Democrats grow worried
By Howard Kurtz It’s almost like someone flipped a switch and the press suddenly discovered that Joe Biden is unpopular. Or perhaps it’s that Democrats are increasingly nervous about the…
The White House on Tuesday warned Republican governors of Texas and Florida that President Joe Biden would override their efforts to fight coronavirus vaccine mandates in their states.
“We know that federal law overrides state law,” she said referring to state attempts to ban vaccine passports. She accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of…