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California shifted more than $14 million from a fund established to help victims of the January 2025 wildfires toward the state's response to anti-deportation protests later that year, according to records from the California Department of Finance reviewed by the Washington Examiner. Read More.

Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing a mounting personal scandal that has prompted senior members of his own party to publicly distance themselves and raised urgent questions about whether his campaign can survive a general-election contest against Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins. Read More.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill had a plan. She would turn the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in Newark into her political moment. She set up a designated "protest zone" outside a federal law enforcement facility. She called the demonstrators brave. She embraced the imagery. She declared victory when the Department of Homeland Security supposedly caved to her demands regarding family visitation at the facility. Read More.

There is a specific kind of contempt that's hard to name. It's not just lying. People lie all the time. Politicians lie constantly. That's not surprising, and in a certain sense, it's not even particularly outrageous anymore. You expect it. Read More.

She was presented by the media, by legal commentators, by the Democratic Party establishment as a credible and protected figure — someone whose accusations against Donald Trump were beyond question, whose motives were beyond examination, and whose legal victories over the former president were cause for celebration in the pages of every major publication that claimed to speak for the American mainstream. Read More.

Thucydides, reconstructing the debates that preceded the Athenian decision to dispatch its great fleet to Sicily, understood something about democracies at war that has not changed in twenty-five centuries: the hardest battles are not fought on the field. They are fought in the assembly, in the forum, in the competing councils of a self-governing people trying to determine whether they have the will to bear the cost of what they have begun. Read More.

John Cornyn has been a United States Senator from Texas since 2002. Twenty-three years. He served as the Senate Majority Whip. He was the kind of Republican who got standing ovations at donor dinners in Washington and blank stares from the people he was supposed to represent. Read More.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has announced it is working to declassify a secret opinion issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that could reveal how federal intelligence agencies have been circumventing post-reform restrictions on searching the private communications of American citizens. Read More.

There is a pattern observable across the long arc of revolutionary movements, from the Jacobins of revolutionary France to the ideological convulsions of the twentieth century, in which the very constituencies that gave a movement its moral energy are eventually consumed by the demands of ideological purity. Read More.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just quietly retired its most famous doomsday scenario — the one used for a decade to justify everything from $51 billion climate lawsuits to Green New Deal spending to your higher electric bills. Read More.

Gas is $4.55 a gallon. Nationally. Every single state in America is now above four dollars — for the first time in years — heading into Memorial Day weekend. Read More.

Bill Cassidy is gone. A sitting United States Senator, gone. Beaten in his own primary by thirty points. That's not a loss — that's an execution. Read More.

Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador. On his own schedule — on your time — he made a personal pilgrimage to visit a man the Biden DOJ identified as a gang member with MS-13 ties, a man accused of rape. He went there to make a political point. Read More.

A court ruled against the Democrats. So they decided to destroy the court. Read More.

Iran fired missiles, drones, and armed fast attack boats at three United States Navy destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz this week. Read More.