(Headline USA) P.J. O'Rourke, the prolific author and satirist who re-fashioned the irreverence and “Gonzo” journalism of the 1960s counterculture into a distinctive brand of conservative and libertarian commentary, has died at age 74.
O'Rourke died Tuesday morning, according to Grove Atlantic Inc. Books publisher and president Morgan Entrekin. The...
(Headline USA) Despite having watched billions of dollars of COVID relief funds being misallocated under a system ripe with fraud, the Biden administration is telling Congress that it needs an additional $30 billion to press ahead with the fight against COVID-19, officials said.
Two people familiar with the administration’s plan...
(Headline USA) The same intelligence community that for years brazenly spread false innuendo about former President Donald Trump's alleged Russia ties is now targeting conservative media.
It was likely US intelligence officials during the Obama era who supported a Ukrainian color revolution that triggered the current tensions at the former...
(Headline USA) The same intelligence community that for years brazenly spread false innuendo about former President Donald Trump's alleged Russia ties is now targeting conservative media.
It was likely US intelligence officials during the Obama era who supported a Ukrainian color revolution that triggered the current tensions at the former...
(Headline USA) Amid a steady drip of damaging headlines, pressure is building for Congress to pass legislation that would curtail lawmakers' ability to speculate on the stock market.
Trading in Congress has long been criticized by government watchdogs, who say the access to nonpublic information creates a temptation for lawmakers...
(Headline USA) If forced to choose, Novak Djokovic said he would skip the French Open and Wimbledon, foregoing the chance to overtake Rafael Nadal's record haul of 21 Grand Slams titles, rather than get vaccinated against COVID-19.
And the No. 1-ranked tennis player is also still smarting about being deported...
(Headline USA) No, the word “Senate” is not Latin for “It's never easy.” But sometimes it seems that way.
The House easily approved two bills last Tuesday with broad bipartisan support. There's no doubt Senate approval is inevitable, sooner rather than later.
But each is encountering problems---for now, let’s call them...
(Headline USA) The accounting firm that prepared former President Donald Trump’s annual financial statements says the documents, used to secure lucrative loans and burnish Trump's image as a wealthy businessman, “should no longer be relied upon” after New York's attorney general claimed they regularly misstated the value of assets.
In...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden claims he came into office with a plan to fix inflation---just not the particular inflationary problem that the country now faces.
The current crisis---which has resulted in the worst economic conditions in more than four decades---began shortly after Biden took power in January 2021.
For months,...
(Headline USA) Republican state senators on Monday advanced legislation that would require every ballot cast in Arizona's elections to be counted by hand, in the wake of significant irregularities in the 2020 election that were uncovered by an independent forensic audit.
The proposal from Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, was approved...
(Headline USA) The Defense Department on Tuesday released a report that says mergers and consolidation among its contractors pose risks to the U.S. economy and national security.
Senior Biden administration officials previewed the report ahead of its release.
It lays out steps to block mergers that run contrary to Defense Department...
(Headline USA) After years of speculation in Honduras, the United States formally requested the arrest and extradition of former President Juan Orlando Hernández less than three weeks after he left office.
Honduran security forces surrounded Hernández’s neighborhood Monday night, and the Supreme Court of Justice scheduled an urgent meeting Tuesday...