Adios, isolationism: Trump embraces role as global cop
In 2022, then-Senate candidate JD Vance staked the isolationist flag by saying, “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.”
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How Tiffany Henyard’s successor at Thornton Township maneuvered to keep earning six-figure salary
As Thornton Township supervisor, Tiffany Henyard earned over $200,000 annually, plus stipends. But the township’s salary ordinance sets her successor’s pay at just $57,000. So why is Napoleon Harris now making the same salary Henyard did?
Man once held in same cell as Epstein: ‘Just no way’ it was suicide
A man once held in the same jail cell as Jeffrey Epstein argued there is “just no way” the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender died by suicide in the cell in 2019. “I spent seven months on that tier and in those cells. And the first thing I have to say, there’s just, you…
NASA drops plans to publish scrubbed climate change report on its site
In a reversal, NASA no longer plans to publish a major climate report whose previous website was scrubbed by the Trump administration. The report in question, known as the National Climate Assessment, was previously housed on globalchange.gov. After the Trump administration eliminated the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) website, NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens said that “all…
Bolton on Russian sanctions threat: Trump laying the groundwork to say ‘I’m done with it’
Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that President Trump could soon retreat from efforts to resolve Russia’s war with Ukraine. The Trump administration has been engaged with both Kyiv and Moscow in search of peace, while GOP lawmakers have pushed for secondary sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He didn’t get what he wanted, which was…
Top Senate banking Democrat sounds alarm over Fed leverage proposal
The Senate banking committee’s top Democrat is calling on the Federal Reserve to throw out a proposed rule for the amount of money that big banks are allowed to borrow relative to their capital. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said in a letter sent this week to the Fed’s vice chair for supervision, Michelle Bowman, that…
End wasteful spending now, fix the budget next
The Senate is considering the administration’s $9.4 billion rescissions request to cancel unneeded appropriations, which would reduce spending by around $100 billion over the next decade.
The complicated truth behind Gen Z’s ‘religious resurgence’
The more significant religion story is that young women and men are moving apart religiously.
Oklahoma man killed by 2 water buffalo he had just purchased
Police said both animals had to be put down due to their aggressive behavior toward people at the scene.
Trump says he’s ‘disappointed’ in Putin, but ‘not done with him’
President Trump said he is “disappointed” in Russian President Vladimir Putin after threatening Moscow with sanctions over its war with Ukraine, but added that he is not “done with him.” “I’m disappointed in him, but I’m not done with him. But I’m disappointed in him,” Trump said in an interview with the BBC that was…