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The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Supply chains keep our economy moving. In fact, surface transportation, including trucking and rail, move 73% of all goods in the United States. Ensuring our roads, railroads, and bridges are in strong condition is key to making sure products make it to the last mile of their delivery. Despite the importance of surface transportation, America is short 60,000 truck drivers, and demand for goods only increases.
As the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee prepares to advance a new surface transportation reauthorization bill, Congress faces a consequential question: Are we prepared to invest in infrastructure not only as an economic necessity, but as a pillar of U.S. national security? For those of us representing America’s territories, particularly in the Indo-Pacific, the answer must be yes.
The prevailing climate change narrative took a big hit in recent days, as scientists who comprise the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are backing away from more outlandish climate predictions for the 21st century.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has restricted the flow of energy to global markets, severely impacting oil prices. As a direct result of rising oil prices, gas prices have also risen worldwide, including in the United States.
President Donald Trump publicly praised three major American corporations on the same day or the day after he bought tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of their stock, according to recently released financial disclosures.
The 15th Amendment doesn’t guarantee perfect elections. It guarantees that eligible voters won’t be turned away because of their race. Those two things are not in conflict, but the debate about voter roll maintenance has made them sound like they are.
The trials and triumphs of the small-town lawman are a distinctly American tale. The tradition stretches at least as far back as the classical Western, with films such as the 1952 classic High Noon, in which moral duty manifests in a lone man in an obscure town facing a looming threat.
The recent U.S. indictment of Cuba’s 94-year-old former leader, Raul Castro, is far more than a symbolic legal gesture. It is the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is reviving the same pressure campaign it used against Venezuela and is attempting to apply it to Havana.
The main cause of division in 2026 is political polarization. Politics is not confined to voting each election cycle. It dominates online culture and, frustratingly, bleeds into every other category of life. We’re forced to deal with politics in sports, music, and entertainment. Far too many Americans view their fellow citizens as bad based on politics alone.
Somewhere, Tom Cruise is dangling from a helicopter skid, wondering how Vice President JD Vance plans to stick the landing in 2028.
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Officials from the United States Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, disputed reports of abandonment on Thursday amid threats of Russian airstrikes in the country’s capital city. The denial comes in response to comments by Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, who claimed the U.S. had evacuated the Embassy. She made the comments before Thursday’s “Informal meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers” of the European Union held in Cyprus.
LVIV, UKRAINE — Andriy Zholob, the deputy mayor of Lviv for Veterans Affairs, understood there was, unmistakably, a mental health crisis brewing among Ukrainian veterans after one disquieting phone call.
EXCLUSIVE — Three of the world’s largest asset management firms have used retirement shares as leverage in corporate political fights to push environmental, social, and governance investing goals on Wall Street, a free market watchdog is claiming.
At first glance, President Donald Trump seems more powerful than ever. His party controls both chambers of Congress, and he just asserted dominance over that party by ousting Indiana state senators who defied him on redistricting, as well as successfully primarying United States senators in Louisiana and Texas.
The nine suspected members of a Texas antifa cell standing trial on federal terrorism charges are deploying a familiar left-wing phrase that gained notoriety during the destructive antifa riots of 2020.
