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President Donald Trump will attend a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base on Wednesday at 11 a.m. for the U.S. service members who were killed during the Iran war last week. The service members were killed Friday at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, and were identified as 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, []
The year: 1986. Two global superpowers have nuclear warheads pointed at each other. Many fear imminent war. “Two vivid characters meet over a weekend, on a desolate and windswept island, in a reputedly haunted house with rain lashing against its windowpanes, where they experience the most amazing things,” wrote Ken Adelman, President Ronald Reagan’s arms []
According to the 12 Democratic state attorneys general who sued this week to block Paramount Skydance’s 110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the theatrical movie business is “a big business, and it is thriving.” That premise carries the states’ theory of harm, and it does not survive contact with the box office: ticket sales []
Republicans in Washington usually want to empower workers and businesses to innovate and thrive. But they are pushing a bill that could create a massive new union that would crush the hopes and dreams of thousands of young athletes around the country. The bill is the so-called Protect College Sports Act, which claims to “stabilize []
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Wednesday called New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani an “evil anti-Semite who deliberately lies about serious things like ‘genocide’ to stoke Jew hate.” Huckabee’s comments on social media come after Mamdani said he was actively seeking to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his New York City visit []
Christopher Nolan, perhaps the greatest director in the world, is back with another winner. The man behind Oppenheimer (2023) now gives us The Odyssey, a movie adaptation of Homer’s ancient epic. The film is already a massive success. Making 264 million in its first week alone and sitting at 95 and above on Rotten Tomatoes, []
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York says Republican voters largely stand behind President Donald Trump‘s military action against Iran, but rising gas prices could become a bigger political problem heading into the 2026 midterm elections. “What is worrisome to Republicans, is not that Republican voters are deeply concerned about the war,” York said Tuesday []
Wisconsin Democrats are calling for more than 80,000 Democratic gubernatorial primary ballots to be recast after several shake-ups in the race left thousands of voters backing candidates who have since dropped out. Ahead of the Aug. 11 primary, front-runner Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez suspended her campaign Friday. A day later, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley []
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha slammed socialists for putting on an act of self-righteousness and said their role in the Michigan Senate race is a “national test lab.” “The [Democratic Socialists of America], if they can win in these deep blue cities, and they’re very brazen about what they want to do to the country, []
A former U.S. attorney whom President Donald Trump fired less than an hour into his role has sued the president and the Department of Justice over his abrupt firing, requesting a preliminary injunction to restore him to the position. Roger Rogoff, a former judge and career prosecutor, filed the lawsuit in the Western District of []
