(Carlos Garcia Rawlins/REUTERS) In Rhode Island, legislators are considering a bill to put their state on par with New York by repealing nearly all existing protections for unborn life. It is part of a national…
Parkland a Year Later: The Deadly Failures of…
Parents and students at a memorial on the anniversary of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., February 14, 2019. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) Family members and survivors continue to press the…
Republican Senators Express Disapproval With Border Funding Bill…
Senator Rand Paul speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, December 4, 2018. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Several Republican senators expressed disapproval Thursday at Congress’s border funding deal as well as President Trump’s plan to declare a national…
Marco Rubio Wants a National Innovation Strategy
Men work on a production line manufacturing robotic arms at a factory in Huzhou, China, January 8, 2019. (Stringer/Reuters) To counter China, we must have ambitions of our own. A new report on China from…
Denver Should Legalize Magic Mushrooms
Psilocybin mushrooms (Wikimedia) No only are they medically useful, but in a free country, people should be allowed to use whatever substances they want. The decriminalization of magic (psilocybin) mushrooms is going to be on…
Beto Advocates Tearing Down Existing Wall on Texas…
Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic former Texas congressman, addresses supporters before an anti-Trump march in El Paso, Texas, U.S., February 11, 2019. (REUTERS/Loren Elliott ) Former congressman Beto O’Rourke said Thursday evening that he would “absolutely”…
AOC reacts to Amazon abandoning its NYC HQ2…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) celebrated the abandonment by Amazon of the multibillion dollar company’s plans to build a new headquarters in New York City, hailing it as a victory for campaigners. Amazon chose Long Island…
Pompeo meets EUs top diplomat after Pences Iran…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with the EU’s top diplomat in Brussels on Friday, a day after Vice President Mike Pence accused America’s traditional European allies of trying to undermine…
Trump’s border emergency: The president plans a 10…
John Wagner National reporter leading The Post's breaking political news team February 15 at 8:40 AM President Trump is set to hold an event at 10 a.m. in the Rose Garden at White House, where…
Flu widespread in US with 15.2 million cases…
In this Feb. 7, 2018 file photo, a nurse prepares a flu shot at the Salvation Army in Atlanta. (Photo11: David Goldman, AP) Midway through this year's flu season, as many as 15.2 million people have fallen sick with…
National emergencies are common, declaring one for a…
President Donald Trump says the wall he envisions in some places along the southern border would be harder to scale than Mount Everest. He says the wall is "very, very on its way" and says…
The Bachelors Colton Underwood: I was grabbed and…
Bachelor Colton Underwood made an early exit from a charity event after he was allegedly touched inappropriately. The reality star, 27, said on Instagram that he was attempting to take photos with fans at an…
Ex-Gov. Bill Weld takes 1st step toward Trump…
Former Massachusetts GOP Gov. Bill Weld has launched a committee to explore a 2020 Republican primary challenge against President Trump. The move, confirmed by Fox News, comes hours before Weld headlines "Politics and Eggs," a must…
Don’t Accept Omar’s Phony Alibis for Hate
Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) participates in a news conference in Washington, D.C., February 7, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS) Her attack on AIPAC is linked to BDS, not to her learning curve about the history of…
Twenty Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Kirsten…
Potential 2020 presidential candidate and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) salutes young Democrats during a campaign stop in Manchester, N.H., February 1, 2019. (Brian Snyder/REUTERS ) Defending Big Tobacco, keeping rifles under her bed, studying…
FEMA Administrator Brock Long Resigns
FEMA Administrator Brock Long listens as President Donald Trump holds an Oval Office meeting in Washington, D.C., September 11, 2018. (Leah Millis/REUTERS) William “Brock” Long, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the past…
The Mythologies of ‘Joe Being Joe’ Biden
Joe Biden speaks during his debate with Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan in Danville, Ky., October 11, 2012. (John Gress/Reuters) Biden is hardly the sober and judicious alternative to a supposedly reckless Donald Trump.…
Valentine’s Day is Stupid, But Men Should Stop…
A man buys balloons on Valentine’s Day in Los Angeles, Calif., in 2017. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) You’ve saved hundreds if not thousands of dollars by society allowing you to look just straight-up worse than we do.…
There’s Not Much Performance in Denver Schools’ ‘Pay…
Signs at a rally as public school teachers strike for a second day in Denver, Colo., February 12, 2019. (Michael Ciaglo/Reuters) Media coverage of the Denver teachers’ strike has gotten the story wrong because it…
House Judiciary Committee Advances Universal Background Check Bill
A gun enthusiast inspects handguns during the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Dallas, Texas, May 5, 2018. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday evening advanced a bill that would require a…
Alesha MacPhail was raped before she was murdered…
Alesha MacPhail was raped before she was murdered and had 117 injuries on her body, a court has heard. The body of Alesha, six, was discovered in woodland on the Isle of Bute in the…
Husband drowned wife by closing hot tub lid…
A man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after he allegedly drowned his wife in a hot tub. Eric Huska, 58, was seen on a home security camera closing the lid of the back garden…
U.S. Congress advances border security bill without Trump…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress on Thursday aimed to end a dispute over border security with legislation that would ignore President Donald Trump’s request for $5.7 billion (£4.45 billion) to help build a wall…
May could face another Brexit defeat in parliament
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May could face a defeat in parliament on Thursday over her plan to renegotiate the Brexit deal, undermining her pledge to the European Union that, with changes, she can…