D.C. to remove ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza,’ replace it with mural for nation’s 250th anniversary
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the District will remove the huge “Black Lives Matter” mural on 16th Street NW and replace it with street art designed by schoolchildren to mark the nation’s upcoming 250th anniversary. Ms. Bowser, a Democrat, announced the move Tuesday after Rep. Andrew Clyde, Georgia Republican…… Continue Reading
Senate Democrats block GOP bill to keep male-born athletes out of female sports
Senate Democrats sank for now a bill Monday barring male-born athletes from competing in female scholastic sports, defying a rising tide of public opposition to transgender players competing based on gender identity instead of biological sex. Senate Republicans were unable to muster the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture on Senate Bill 9, the Protection of Women…… Continue Reading
GOP-led states embrace DOGE’s return-to-office move for government workers
Several Republican-led states are in step with President Trump’s push to make government workers return to the office or forfeit their jobs. Republican officials in Oklahoma, Utah, Ohio and Wisconsin have been revoking or rethinking state workers’ allowances to stay home since Mr. Trump won reelection in November and signaled his intent to reduce the federal…… Continue Reading
Trump says tariffs on Canada and Mexico will go into effect March 4
President Trump says planned tariffs on Canada and Mexico will go into effect on Tuesday because too much fentanyl is pouring across U.S. borders. Mr. Trump announced the plan on Thursday, ending days of confusion about whether the 25% levies would happen or be delayed a second time. “More than 100,000 people died last year due…… Continue Reading
USAID wasted millions on Ukrainian pet products and fashion junkets, Sen. Ernst says
At first blush, it might be difficult to connect dog collars with Ukraine’s war against Russia. But according to data compiled by Sen. Joni Ernst, the U.S. Agency for International Development spent $300,000 of American taxpayers’ money in 2022 to boost the Ukrainian pet alliance, which markets the country’s products in the West. USAID also committed… Continue Reading
European conservative leaders say Trump’s MAGA movement can help make Europe great again
A delegation of European conservative leaders agrees that President Trump’s triumphant return to the White House after four years in political exile has helped inspire a populist, MAGA-style resurgence across their respective countries. Members of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party are part of a center-right political group of members in the European Parliament, launched in 2009…… Continue Reading
Middle East powers weigh whether to back Trump, Israel in corralling Iran
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The moment is ripe for President Trump to focus on aligning Arab powers with the U.S. and Israel around the common goal of containing Iran, said former national security officials who attended the International Defense Exposition last week. Some said Israel’s battering of Tehran’s top proxy…… Continue Reading
NSA responds to report it hacked China, emphasizes ‘strong defense posture’
A new analysis exposing the National Security Agency’s alleged hack of a Chinese university sent shock waves through the cybersecurity community this week, with granular details of the communist country’s investigative findings spilling out into the open. The Australia-based researcher Lina Lau, who uses…… Continue Reading
Trump Education Department cancels $226 million in ‘divisive’ diversity grants
The Trump administration on Wednesday canceled $226 million in federal grants earmarked for meetings and reports on diversity needs in K-12 schools. The Department of Education said the Comprehensive Centers program that the grants funded produced work that ranged from a video instructing teachers to “flick that White man off your shoulders” to a joint video…… Continue Reading
Illegal immigrants now paying up to $30,000 as cartels raise prices under Trump
Stephen Marroquin-Mendez was stuffed inside a cabinet in the cab of a semitruck when authorities found him. The cabinet was latched from the outside, so he could not free himself. The illegal immigrant from El Salvador told agents from the Department of Homeland Security last week that he had paid $8,500 to be floated across the Rio Grande and into Texas, owed $8,500 more…… Continue Reading
