For much of the past year and a half you couldn’t open the New York Times or approach an elite university campus without hearing a panic about how President Donald Trump was becoming a dictator with "no guardrails" to curb him. After today’s 6-3 opinion from the Supreme Court striking down Trump’s tariffs, that complaint looks more foolish than ever. Trump called the opinion "terrible," "a shame," "ridiculous," and "totally defective."
Iran has spent the past several months fortifying two nuclear sites against an aerial strike and excavating areas the United States and Israel destroyed last June, according to recent satellite imagery analyzed by the Institute for Science and International Security.
Qatar more than tripled its funding of U.S. colleges and universities between 2024 and 2025 after becoming the largest foreign financier of higher education in the United States in 2022, according to Department of Education disclosure records.
Al Jazeera prohibits its staff from referring to al Qaeda, ISIS, and Boko Haram as "terrorist," "Islamist," or "extremist" groups, instead requiring reporters to use "neutral terms" like "fighters" and "armed groups," according to a copy of the outlet’s style guide obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
A UCLA political science professor threatened to resign from her leadership role at the university's research center for international relations if CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss is allowed to deliver an annual lecture about the future of journalism.
Yale University said it is investigating an incident in which anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted into the snow on major campus quads, a university spokeswoman told the Washington Free Beacon.
The latest business to pick up and leave the high-tax, high-regulation, high-crime nightmare of Illinois may be its iconic professional football franchise.
U.S. Virgin Islands delegate Stacey Plaskett (D.) visited Jeffrey Epstein at the Virgin Islands office that served as the base for a network of shell companies the sex offender used to defraud the Virgin Islands government out of hundreds of millions of dollars, according to emails and court filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
President Donald Trump said that the United States will decide "in the next probably 10 days" whether to strike Iran or reach a deal, as the Pentagon carries out a massive military buildup in the Middle East that includes aircraft carriers, warships, and hundreds of fighter jets.
"Netanyahu Plays Trump and American Jews for Fools—Again" is the headline over Thomas Friedman's latest column in the New York Times. I read the "again" part as an admission by Friedman that he's been writing the same column for decades. It's been consistently wrong, so the real "fools" are any remaining readers who take what he says seriously.
Prince George’s County, Md., was planning to evict hundreds of residents from the Marylander Condominiums on Thursday after vandalism from a nearby homeless encampment plunged the property into disrepair. Those plans were briefly put on hold at an emergency court hearing on Wednesday morning, when Maryland district court judge Bryon Bereano declined to sign an order authorizing the evictions.
Jasmine Crockett dared to be different. Now she's reaping the consequences. The congresswoman was bold enough to seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Texas because representation matters. "What we need is for me to have a bigger voice," she declared with unfathomable courage.
