7+ min ago  (203+ words) Europe's EU project has reached its limits: a centralized bureaucracy replacing politics itself, draining legitimacy, and pointing back toward sovereign, competitive states. That is why today's EU is not the high point of European history but its bureaucratic state of…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago  (788+ words) The immigration bill doesn't address the increased cost of living. The Senate's passage of a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill should eliminate some money stress for the government, but Democratic opposition to the bill remains strong. In an 18-hour marathon vote…...

7+ hour, 44+ min ago  (80+ words) Senate sends $70 B bill funding ICE, border patrol to vacant House - The Black Chronicle...

16+ min ago  (426+ words) When Project Freedom, the operation to neutralize Iran's control of the Strait of Homuz by escorting merchantmen past Iran interdiction, was announced (before it was almost immediately canceled), I wrote that combined with a blockade of Tehran's own commerce, it…...

4+ hour ago  (309+ words) President Trump has pardoned former US Representative Stephen Buyer, an Indiana Republican, who was convicted of securities fraud "for engaging in insider trading in 2018 as a T-Mobile US "consultant ahead of a $23 billion merger with Sprint. The proclamation, issued on…...

9+ hour, 31+ min ago  (286+ words) President Donald Trump granted a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Indiana Congressman, convicted of securities fraud related to insider trading during a T-Mobile and Sprint merger. The pardon was backed by the advice of over 50 lawmakers, citing Buyer's distinguished…...

25+ min ago  (584+ words) President Trump took a jab at former Speaker of the House and California Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi over alleged insider trading, quipping that he "doubts" she stood up to applaud. The White House recently announced President Donald Trump on Thursday…...

26+ min ago  (649+ words) Pope Leo on Saturday urged global leaders to avoid dividing their electorates with "sterile simplifications" to gain popularity and called on them to listen to the world's cries for peace, in a forceful speech opening a week-long tour of Spain....

46+ min ago  (801+ words) The after-effects might last years. Soldiers returned from the front keep their windows covered and lights dimmed even when hundreds of kilometres outside the zone. Trapped in what psychologists speak of as hypervigilance and hyperarousal, the sound of a drone…...

40+ min ago  (371+ words) The U. S. and Iran exchanged fire again overnight, the latest in a series of skirmishes that has kept tensions high in the Strait of Hormuz. The U. S. military said it shot down four Iranian attack drones that had been launched toward the…...