Speaking to reporters before departing Miami on Monday night, President Donald Trump said he doesn't "care about the Nobel Prize." "First of all, a very fine woman felt that I deserved it and really wanted me to have the Nobel Prize. And I appreciate that," he said, referring to Venezuelan opposition leader Mara Corina Machado, who presented Trump her Nobel Peace Prize while visiting the White House last week.
When Ronald Reagan looked at America, he saw a country rooted in liberty, anchored in the rule of law and sustained by a faith in unlimited potential and boundless opportunity. At the heart of conservatism was Reagan's simple truth: "The greatness of America doesn't begin in Washington; it begins with each of you " in the mighty spirit of free people under God." One year into Trump's second act, it is clear that he sees a very different America. Trump doesn't see a free people; he sees enemies. He doesn't see dissent; Trump sees disloyalty. He doesn't see a republic to serve; Trump sees a country to command.
Experts (progressives) cite complexity of problem, which is rooted in poverty, lack of affordable housing but includes medical, psychiatric, substance-use issues
Lawmakers questioned US Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, nominated to lead the National Security Agency (NSA), over his views on surveillance and concerns that the NSA could be used against innocent Americans. USMC Lt. Gen. Francis Donovan, nominated to lead USSOUTHCOM, was questioned about the role of US forces in South America.
The Archbishop of the Military Services Timothy Broglio stated that Catholic personnel in the US military could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland.
The leaders of all 27 European Union nations will meet for an "extraordinary meeting" later this week in response to US President Donald Trump's escalating pressure campaign to acquire Greenland.:
Denmark Sending More Soldiers to Greenland
Donald Trump has become the first US president since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established to not issue a proclamation honoring the federal holiday, breaking a tradition observed for nearly 40 consecutive years.
Trump Removed MLK Bust from Oval Office in 2025
Pollsters often ask respondents which party they favor. Some people claim to be independents, but most of them lean one way or the other. During the first year of Trump v1.0, the percentage of Americans calling themselves "Republicans" or "Republican-leaning" dropped slightly, from 42% to 40%.
New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gdel's incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires "non-algorithmic understanding," something no computation can replicate. This discovery challenges the simulation hypothesis and reveals that the universe's foundations exist beyond any algorithmic system. Read more
Monty Python would have a field day
Melania Trump's $40 Million Documentary Gamble Is Headed for Empty Chairs and Low Streams
President Donald Trump has granted clemency to a Republican congressman's son who was in prison for distributing methamphetamine.
Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called "Cow Tools," featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects"the joke being that cows don't use tools. That's why a pet Swiss brown cow in Austria named Veronika has caused a bit of a sensation: she likes to pick up random sticks and use them to scratch herself.
Acadia Parish (Louisiana) deputies arrested Roman Catholic priest Korey LaVergne on accusations of behaving indecently with a child, igniting a new scandal in the diocese where the US church's reckoning with clergy abuse began, an institution that just disclosed it could lose up to $162 million over pending litigation.
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Despite claims by the Trump administration, a new study has found that Americans are absorbing about 96% of the costs of President Donald Trump's tariffs. Foreign companies have been paying only 4% through discounts and other tactics. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy study, obtained by The Wall Street Journal on Monday, concluded that the tariffs were likely to show up as higher consumer prices in the long term. "There is no such thing as foreigners transferring wealth to the U.S. in the form of tariffs," Bielefeld University professor Julian Hinz remarked after authoring the study.
According to Hinz, the $200 billion in tariff revenue last year "was paid almost exclusively by Americans."
The report found that the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans instead of a tax on foreign companies.
The three highest-ranking Roman Catholic clerics who lead archdioceses in the United States said in a strongly worded statement on Monday that America's "moral role in confronting evil around the world" is in question for the first time in decades. Their critique of the Trump administration's principles " while not mentioning President Trump by name " escalates the American Catholic Church's denunciations of the country's top leaders. In 2026, the country has entered "the most profound and searing debate about the moral foundation for America's actions in the world since the end of the Cold War," read the unusual statement issued by Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago; Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington; and Cardinal Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark.
