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“Within three to five years, we can assume Iran will be autonomous in its ability to develop and produce a nuclear bomb.” This statement was…
On February 22, 2026, the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey Team won gold for the third time ever. The game was won against Canada after player…
Recently, the world learned that many of the people it sees on its screens — politicians, billionaires, academics, and Hollywood stars — were associated with the…
On February 17, Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled his administration’s $127 billion preliminary budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal year. According to Mamdani, the city is facing…
America is engulfed in a national housing crisis — or at least its cities and suburbs are. Discussion of housing affordability has steadily grown in American…
On December 25, 2025, Donald Trump, with the Nigerian government’s approval, ordered the launch of U.S. military airstrikes from the Gulf of Guinea to target the…
On Super Bowl Sunday, professional boxer Mike Tyson told an audience of over 100 million Americans, “I was so fat and nasty. I would eat anything.”…
On Feb. 13, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released a memo outlining the “Detention Reengineering Initiative,” a plan to expand detention capacity from roughly 70,000…
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., reads notes before speaking about the SAVE America Act to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026, in…
When Eileen Gu glided onto the slopes of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, the atmosphere was markedly different from the feverish adulation…