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WASHINGTON -- In the wake of the public shootings of strangers, especially when innocent children are the victims, there are lies that we tell ourselves and true things some dare not say.

Two children were killed, and 18 other people were injured in the Wednesday mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. A Minnesota ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- What did the president know, and when did he know it? That used to be the eventual question for most administrations. When it comes to former President Joe Biden, however, the question is: Did the president know much of anything?

The GOP-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been trying to answer that question ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who relied on leakers and big media to go after President Donald Trump, now has his turn on the wobbly three-legged stool of politics, law enforcement and the settling of scores.

Unlike D.C. Democrats, who used their perches to go after Trump by any means necessary, the president isn't ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to change California's rules for drawing lines for House seats. Texas Republicans, he says, want to rig elections to help President Donald Trump in the 2026 election, so California Democrats have to rig back.

Forget that the Golden State's rules already work handily for the Democrats: 45% of ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- In 2024, candidate Donald Trump pledged to "take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city so that it's no longer a nightmare of murder and crime."

On Aug. 11, President Donald Trump announced he would federalize the district's Metropolitan Police ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The New York Times has a credibility problem.

On July 24, the country's newspaper of record published an online story with the headline, "Gazans Are Dying of Starvation," which focused on impending famine among Gaza's' "most vulnerable civilians -- the young, the old and the sick."

But an image from the story that ran on the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "The fastest way to end the Humanitarian Crises in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!" President Donald Trump wrote Thursday morning on Truth Social.

Amen.

While in Scotland on Monday, Trump had voiced a very human concern about the children of Gaza, when he said, "I mean, some of those kids are -- that'...Read more

WASHINGTON -- There's a reason why Claire Shipman, acting president of Columbia University, cut a deal with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon last week.

Elite universities like to pose as protectors of free speech, but nobody believes that anymore.

For decades, they've served as taxpayer-subsidized echo chambers.

Then, in March, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Hunter Biden is making news again. Former President Joe Biden's son sat down for a lengthy interview with podcaster Andrew Callaghan that dropped Monday.

With his father out of the White House, Hunter Biden could use 2025 to retreat into private life.

Instead, for over three hours, the former president's son talked about his ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- One of the things Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought likes about working for President Donald Trump is that there's no item that's "too small" to rate the president's attention.

It was an important point to make in a town that scoffs at conservatives' calls for cuts to programs that are too progressive or ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Who needs the U.S. Department of Education to stay just the way it is?

Not Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who sees it as her mission to be "the last secretary" of a vast bureaucracy known more for its aspirations than its successes.

In the meantime, McMahon wants to cut the behemoth down to size. So, in keeping with ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- It's open season on ICE agents and others in law enforcement who work with them. No wonder they're masking up.

On July 4, armed activists shot a local police officer in the neck during what authorities described as a "planned ambush" near an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. In Portland, Oregon, that same day, rioters and police ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump Department of Justice and FBI announced Monday that they had "conducted an exhaustive review" into the death of disgraced financier and child abuser Jeffrey Epstein and found more than 10,000 downloaded videos of illegal child sex abuse. Epstein, who killed himself in a New York prison cell in 2019, clearly was a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "Diddy Gets Off," shouted a New York Post online headline Wednesday.

But hip-hop mogul Sean Combs didn't get off entirely. A Manhattan jury found Combs guilty of two of the five federal felonies he was charged with by the U.S. Southern District of New York -- the two charges of transportation to engage in prostitution -- but not...Read more

WASHINGTON -- I start with a salute to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.

On Friday, the nation's top court released a 6-3 majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas that rightly upheld a Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify that users are 18 or older before providing access.

Kagan wrote the dissenting opinion for...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "This bill is like yogurt, not wine," one senator said, describing the One Big Beautiful Bill to Semafor. It was an apt description for legislation that President Donald Trump wants on his desk by Independence Day.

Because the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed by Trump in 2017 sunsets this year, Congress has to pass a new measure to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump does not want to be a wartime president.

He wants to be the president who, as he did at Mar-a-Lago in 2017, enjoyed "the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you've ever seen," as he informed Chinese President Xi Jinping that the U.S. had just dropped bombs on Syria.

Trump wants to be the U.S. president...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump sees what needs to happen in the Middle East as Israel and Iran take their decades-long war out of the shadows. Push for a ceasefire? Not really. "An end, a real end, not a ceasefire," Trump told reporters during an early return to Washington from the G7 meeting in Calgary.

Trump added, "a complete give-up...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The script for how big media outlets cover left-wing riots never changes.

Progressive protests destroy blue cities. Then cable news anchors inform viewers that protests that have brought chaos and destruction started out peacefully.

Yes, there is a pattern to progressive protests that turn violent. The demonstrations, like ...Read more