The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., which challenge laws that reserve women's and girls' sports divisions in government schools exclusively for females. The great majority of Americans recognize that because men are generally far taller, heavier, faster and stronger than women, co-ed competition is unfair in most sports. But more is at stake than fairness. Those same physical differences mean that allowing male bodies on the court with girls or women is dangerous. We don't allow children to play contact sports with adults because of the obvious physical risk. Similarly, though some variability exists within the male and female pools, the normal range of physical traits differs so widely between the sexes that allowing men to compete in women's sports will inevitably expose women to a heightened risk of physical harm. Read more
A former Republican congressman who resigned after pleading guilty to misusing campaign funds for extramarital affairs with lobbyists and family spending sprees, and subsequently received a pardon from Donald Trump, is now using his remaining political influence to seek clemency for a childhood friend convicted of child sexual abuse material possession. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Hunter is currently operating as a lobbyist and working to secure a presidential pardon for Raymond Liddy, who was convicted in 2020 of possessing child sexual abuse material.
Two dynamics are fundamentally reshaping the structure and functioning of the American government. The first, which is quite well known, is Congress's decline. The second, perhaps somewhat less appreciated but no less significant, is the Supreme Court's ascent"its expansion of its power into areas previously thought to be off-limits. These dynamics share a root cause: the partisan polarization that has reshaped American politics over the past four decades. But the connection is deeper and more complex than that. Whereas polarization weakened Congress, it emboldened the Court to dismantle laws and, in the process, undermine Congress's ability to make laws at all, reinforcing Congress's sclerosis.
Scott Adams, creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip, who became controversial for his right-wing statements, has died following a battle with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 68. Members of The Scott Adams School (formerly called Coffee With Scott Adams) shared the news of Adams' death on Tuesday. Adams started writing blog posts praising Donald Trump in 2015, and his daily video podcast featured a range of conservative guests. His writings and podcasts began to question the Holocaust and oppose the COVID vaccine. Read more
U.S. consumer prices increased in December, lifted by higher costs for rents and food as some of the distortions related to the government shutdown that had artificially lowered inflation in November unwound, cementing expectations the Federal Reserve would leave interest rates unchanged this month. Nonetheless, expensive food, with prices increasing by the most in more than three years, and rents underscored the affordability crisis facing President Donald Trump, partly blamed by economists on the White House's policies, including sweeping import tariffs.
Former President Bill Clinton appears to have defied a congressional subpoena to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday morning. Clinton was compelled to sit for a sworn closed-door deposition in the House's bipartisan probe into Jeffrey Epstein, but Fox News Digital did not see him before or after the scheduled 10 a.m. grilling. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., had threatened to begin contempt of Congress proceedings against Clinton if he did not appear Tuesday.
Remote US Army base Fort Greely Alaska, which has a key role in intercepting incoming ICBMs in the event of a nuclear war, is struggling to keep its dining facilities operating following an exodus of staff under Elon Musk's DOGE budget-slashing campaign.
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Gavin Newsom' and his staff have quietly talked to the champion of a controversial wealth tax proposal seeking an off-ramp to defuse a looming ballot measure fight. The conversations, reported here for the first time, have occurred intermittently for months as SEIU-UHW's ballot initiative targeting billionaires migrated from the backrooms of California politics to the center of a raging debate about Silicon Valley and income inequality, sparking tech titans' wrath and vows to move out of state. Read more
Whoever replaces Jerome Powell as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve in May knows one thing: If they don't do what President Donald Trump wants, they risk being criminally prosecuted. That was the unambiguous message in Powell's extraordinary statement yesterday, in which he vowed to continue to set monetary policy independently despite the federal grand jury subpoenas investigating his statements to Congress about alleged cost overruns in the renovation of the Fed's headquarters.
Under Trump, the F.C.C. has used obscure regulatory powers to crack down on network TV. Some conservatives are pushing back.
The Trump administration's criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is backfiring in the halls of Congress - likely one reason why investors still have yet to panic. No less than a half-dozen GOP senators publicly criticized the Department of Justice for investigating Powell over Hill testimony last year about the Fed headquarters' renovation.
The Reverend Franklin Graham: "Pray at noon this Wednesday for Jesus to protect Donald Trump and officials from the lying paid agitators."
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As the Hubble Space Telescope faces the end of its mission, experts predict that it could reenter Earth's atmosphere earlier than predicted.
A reading from Plato's "Symposium" has been removed from the syllabus of a philosophy course in order to comply with revisions to Section 8.1 of Texas A&M's Academic Freedom, Responsibility and Tenure policy, fostering national attention and online controversy.
Alberta's election agency announced Monday it has approved a proposed referendum question on the province separating from Canada. The question seeks a yes or no answer to: "Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?" Elections Alberta says the proponent " the Alberta Prosperity Project and its chief executive officer, Mitch Sylvestre " have until early January to appoint a financial officer for its petition campaign, after which signature collection can begin. Read more
China has quietly begun a strategic expansion into U.S. territory, starting with the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), including Saipan. This video explains how the quiet moves could have major geopolitical consequences without firing a single shot.
