Democrats flipped a state Senate seat in heavily Republican Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, during a special election Tuesday, and the Democrat senator-elect is crediting President Donald Trump for the victory. Democrat James Andrew Malone, the mayor of East Petersburg, won the seat for the 36th District by less than 500 votes, receiving 50% of the total votes […]
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The Trump administration has reportedly suspended financial contributions to the World Trade Organization as of Thursday. The decision comes as part of a broader shift by President Donald Trump to distance the U.S. from international institutions perceived to undermine American sovereignty or misallocate taxpayer dollars. U.S. funding for both 2024 and 2025 has been halted, amounting to […]
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There is no such thing as a permanent majority. That might be the lesson from President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the nomination of U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, which would have forced another special election this year while Republicans are already nursing just a 218 to 213 majority […]
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Amazon has revised its Alexa privacy agreement effective today, March 28, 2025, as part of the rollout of Alexa Plus, an AI-powered upgrade to the voice assistant. The update eliminates the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” option previously available on select Echo devices, including the Echo Dot (4th Gen), Echo Show 10, and Echo Show […]
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As we reflect on five years since the tumultuous start of the COVID pandemic (even if we just wish to forget it ever happened), the most fundamental question is still unanswered: where did SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) come from? There are two theories: market (or zoonosis) and lab leak. In my […]
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President Donald Trump Thursday called for defunding National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service, two partially federally funded groups under scrutiny in the DOGE era. Trump’s comments come after heads of both NPR and PBS defended their work at a Wednesday Congressional hearing. “NPR and PBS, two horrible and completely biased platforms (Networks!), should be […]
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President Donald Trump has expanded his tariffs to include a new 25 percent tariffs on all trucks and cars and automobile parts being imported into the U.S. in a March 26 proclamation, citing national security concerns with outsourced automobile production, stating, “automobiles and certain automobile parts are being imported into the United States in such quantities […]
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The woke military is the bastard child of a thousand fathers. Several of those “fathers” were the ones wearing JAG badges. Luckily, POTUS and SecDef are earnest in reversing the damage done to our armed forces. But it is instructive to ask, ‘How did we get here?” To avoid a repeat of the blatant politicization […]
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A decade ago, I theorized that overlooked voters who had become politically disengaged after the modern Democratic Party abandoned them would be the key to conservatives creating a realigned political majority. In the last three presidential election cycles, we’ve seen non-college whites, rural voters, young people – particularly men – and minorities shift substantially toward […]
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In 1974, Congress created the Legal Services Corporation to connect lower-income Americans involved in civil disputes with free legal help. The law that established the agency stipulated that authorization for its funding would expire in 1980, when lawmakers were required to vote on whether to keep it alive. They never did. Still, Congress […]