Facing a budget hole worth billions of dollars, Washington state devised a plan to take what it deems excess funding from one of the nation’s few pension funds able to pay out retirement benefits without coming up short. The pension’s contributors immediately sued, pitting the state against its retirees. Democratic lawmakers who ushered the bill […]
Pope Leo XIV released his much-anticipated “Magnifica Humanitas” (roughly, the Magnificent Humanity) on Memorial Day, with the Catholic leader pleading for humanity’s protection as artificial intelligence rapidly advances. The plea comes as several AI companies have come under fire for their humanlike chatbots, driving some people to harm or suicide. However helpful or harmful, AI […]
As the nation’s new Homeland Security secretary, Markwayne Mullin is responsible both for immigration enforcement and airport security. He is publicly considering a new plan that would combine the two functions of his agency — and potentially upend global air travel. During an interview Tuesday with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Mullin said the agency is […]
NEW YORK — When Emile Herrera Acosta agreed to plead guilty, he had already been locked up for three months on Rikers Island. While awaiting his court date at New York’s infamous jail complex, the 23-year-old got COVID-19, endured weeks of medical processing — including blood testing and STD tests — and lived in a […]
There was another big primary win for President Donald Trump on Tuesday when his pick in the Texas Senate race defeated a longtime Republican incumbent. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate Tuesday night, handily defeating four-term Sen. John Cornyn in a high-stakes runoff. Trump threw his support behind Paxton […]
Former President Joe Biden has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Department to keep hours of recordings tied to the classified documents investigation from becoming public. The lawsuit centers on interviews Biden gave in 2016 and 2017 to ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer while working on his memoirs. Those recordings later became part of special counsel Robert Hur’s […]
President Donald Trump is convening his Cabinet at the White House Wednesday as peace negotiations with Iran move forward despite Tehran’s claims that the U.S. violated the ceasefire. Iran released video Tuesday that it claims shows its military responding to recent U.S. actions, including its forces apparently shooting down an American drone and tracking an F-35 fighter jet, following U.S. strikes earlier this week. An official with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pulls off a major win, knocking out longtime Sen. John Cornyn in one of the year’s biggest Republican races. Plus, a deadly implosion tears through a Washington paper plant, leaving a worker dead and nine others still missing. And President Donald Trump gathers his Cabinet at the White House on […]
Nearly five months after President Donald Trump announced the creation of a Board of Peace to oversee post-war rebuilding and security efforts in Gaza, a new report said the organization’s main official funding mechanism still has no money in it. The Financial Times reported the World Bank-administered fund created for the board has not received […]
MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell has denied that a ransomware group hacked his company — but he said the claims about the attack are politically motivated. “Nobody’s asked us for any ransom,” Lindell told Straight Arrow during a telephone interview on Wednesday. Ransomware attack claims Straight Arrow reported Tuesday that the ransomware group, known as […]
