Hezbollah is on the backfoot. The first sign of that was the absence of a public gathering – typically consisting of high-level party officials and supporters – to watch the militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah deliver a televised speech on Thursday. The second sign was that Nasrallah’s address – his…
House Republicans are moving to protect U.S. service members’ paychecks in the event of a partial government shutdown. Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., is re-introducing her Pay Our Troops Act on Thursday, with support from at least 20 fellow House lawmakers – 16 Republicans and four Democrats. It comes a day…
A shadowy group has been recruiting unsuspecting candidates to act as potential spoilers in competitive House races in the latest attempt from far-left groups to tip Republican races. For the past year, a group known as the Patriots Run Project has recruited Trump supporters to run as independent candidates in…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., placed blame on former President Trump and Republicans for a potential partial government shutdown after the House failed to pass a stopgap spending measure on Wednesday. He filed cloture on Thursday in a procedural move in order to act as quickly as possible once…
Former Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi insisted on Wednesday that her party’s presidential nominating process after President Biden dropped out was ‘open,’ and Vice President Kamala Harris ‘won it,’ despite the absence of any such contest. Prior to Biden stepping down as the Democratic Party’s nominee in mid-July,…
Israeli officials on Thursday were warning residents in the north to stay inside or remain near bomb shelters after the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck hundreds of Hezbollah military targets inside Lebanon. The IAF, using intelligence from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), struck some 100 launchers and additional ‘terrorist infrastructure…
A new poll suggests that support is dropping among all Americans for Taylor Swift’s efforts to encourage her legions of fans to vote in the upcoming elections. Fifty-three percent of voters questioned in a Monmouth University national survey released on Thursday said they approved of Swift’s voter encouragement efforts —…
New legislation signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom regulating AI-generated ‘deepfake’ election content and requiring the removal of ‘deceptive content’ from social media is now being challenged in court. The new laws build on legislation passed years earlier regulating campaign ads and communications, according to the governor’s office. But two…
The U.S. is ‘sleepwalking’ into a global war against its top adversaries united under an axis of ‘malign partnerships,’ and experts are sounding the alarm that neither the U.S. military nor the public are prepared for World War III. In late July, a body of non-governmental national security experts, first…
The U.S. will host an artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit in November, aiming to further align top nations on their tech goals and priorities of collaboration among the international community. ‘AI is the defining technology of our generation,’ U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said in a press release. ‘With…