The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged more than 500 points on Wednesday, closing above 37,000 for the first time, according to reports. The historically high close for stock index came on the same day that the Federal Reserve announced plans to maintain current interest rates. A Federal Open Market Committee statement notes that “the Committee

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) denounced multiple brands that pulled their advertising from X, but have refused to address the national security risks of Chinese-owned TikTok. Rubio issued a press release announcing he sent letters to 18 companies that were too squeamish to advertise on Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter), but remain active on TikTok, which

Judge Tanya Chutkan, the judge overseeing the case involving former President Trump and the bogus allegations against him regarding the 2020 election, surprisingly acknowledged her lack of jurisdiction in the case and put it on hold as the court awaits a decision by the Supreme Court to take up the case, according to a report

Senate Democrats are pushing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from a case that does not yet exist. On Monday, special counsel Jack Smith petitioned the Supreme Court to bypass the D.C. Appeals Court and decide whether former President Donald Trump is immune from federal prosecution in his election interference case. The justices

A police chase through Cobb County, Georgia, ended with a police car landing on top of the suspect’s overturned vehicle in midtown Atlanta. The chase included the Narcotics and Intelligence Unit, which was chasing a suspect in a gray Jeep Gladiator. The suspect reportedly fled through county streets until eventually getting on the interstate into

For her Tuesday show, CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip welcomed 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones to discuss the fallout of Harvard President Claudine Gay’s Congressional testimony on campus anti-Semitism. Phillip wondered if racism has anything to do with calls for Gay to resign and Hannah-Jones was more than willing to say that it was. Phillip

Is Illinois still offering illegal aliens up to $9,000 in rental assistance? The answer is almost certainly yes since the program was exposed in October. Yet Democrat-run Illinois refuses to learn its lesson despite having no money to fund its woke programs. Advertisement Chicago residents are increasingly angry about the destructive and unaffordable mass of

Bad things happen in small steps, and no one knows this better than Jordan Peterson. “Things get to terrible places one tiny step at a time,” Peterson told Joe Rogan in a past interview. “If I encroach on you and I’m sophisticated about it, I’m going to encroach two millimeters. I’m going to encroach right

The American Civil Liberties Union partnered with First Liberty Institute to file a lawsuit against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for rejecting a Christian group’s bus advertisement. The lawsuit claims that the WMATA’s advertising policies violate the First Amendment after the authority denied an advertisement from WallBuilders, an “organization dedicated to presenting America’s forgotten

Old Glory Bank Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Eric Ohlhausen responded to a Bloomberg article on net-zero banks in an exclusive interview, saying that both U.S. and foreign banks are working to clamp down on farmers in the name of lower emissions.  Following a disturbing statement by an executive from Dutch bank Rabobank that farmers

Hunter Biden made his way to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, but instead of complying with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena for a standard closed-door deposition, he opted to hold a press conference. Advertisement During his press conference, he not only claimed that he is willing to testify publicly but also contended that his father Joe

In a previous epoch, Tim Alberta was a reporter for National Review, one of too many NR cubs who later joined the liberal-media zoo. Alberta is now at The Atlantic, one of America’s most intense producers of frothing leftist drivel. It seems like every leftist network has welcomed Alberta to trash conservative Christians through his

There were people who warned that this kind of thing would start happening in America. They were vilified, marginalized, and deplatformed as “Islamophobes.” But like so many who were dismissed in recent years as “hatemongers” and “conspiracy theorists,” they were right all along. Advertisement Nashville’s WZTV reported that a Muslim family was arrested Tuesday on

Former Vice President, climate activist and Apple board member Al Gore has a new scheme for Big Tech algorithms. Speaking at the Bloomberg Green Summit at COP28, climate doom prophet Gore compared online algorithms to AR-15s and opined, “They ought to be banned.” He mourned how social media changed the fact that Americans supposedly had

Political opinion polls show that the presidential race is very close. The Reuters/Ipsos poll out today has Donald Trump ahead of Joe Biden 38-36 with 26% undecided.  Advertisement But the poll also carries troubling news for Trump. If he’s convicted of a felony, 31% of Republicans wouldn’t vote for him in November 2024. That’s an

A man and a woman were arrested by Minnesota police after an alleged home intruder was shot and killed at their home in St. Paul early Monday morning. The St. Paul Police Department said that the woman who lived at the home in the Hamline-Midway neighborhood called 911 to report a home intruder. While she

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) has endorsed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for president. “To go and get endorsed by the live free or die governor is about as rock solid of an endorsement as we could hope for,” Haley declared while standing with Sununu at an event. “I AM enthusiastically endorsing Nikki

As you may already know, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Washington, at President Joe Biden’s request, in order to lobby for additional U.S. military assistance (shorthand: taxpayer money) in its ongoing war against Russia. The GOP’s attachment of border reforms as a precondition to any further outlays of taxpayer dollars in Ukraine seems to have

I’m sure many of us have given up on the idea that the flight logs to convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s private island will ever see the light of day because of the powerful people whose names are allegedly on the list. Perhaps this is wishful thinking, but House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer

Was the war in Ukraine planned ahead of time? In a shocking clip from 2016 that has just emerged, it seems that may be the case. In it, Senator Lindsey Graham tells Ukrainian soldiers, “Your fight is our fight. 2017 will be the year of offense.” “All of us will go back to Washington, and

A grandmother in Ohio was arrested after her family told police she intentionally shot her 6-month-old granddaughter in the face. The child is in critical condition after undergoing two surgeries. Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones told WXIX-TV that 43-year-old Mia Desiree Harris fled from the scene early Saturday at about 1:50 a.m. She was spotted

While NBC’s Today stayed on the sidelines and ABC’s Good Morning America only had a news brief, Tuesday’s CBS Mornings was eager to trumpet Harvard University’s diversity tool and President Claudine Gay being told by the school’s poobahs that she could keep her job despite showing support for anti-Semitism on her campus so long as

One of the critical questions emerging among the Western commentariat regarding the Israel-Gaza war is what to do with the Hamas terrorists captured by the IDF. Should these be detained as POWs and treated tolerantly, as specified by the Geneva Conventions of 1949? A second question on which the answer to the first depends entails

“Spread Kindess, Not Germs,” reads a sign I once saw in my children’s preschool. If only we had such a choice! In reality, as all parents know, there’s nothing so efficient as “kindness” — sharing, playing nicely together, greeting friends with enthusiasm — when it comes to spreading sickness, especially at this time of year.

The United States and the Jewish state of Israel might sit separately in different hemispheres, but they are ever connected through their foundational promises. Now as the souls of these two nations are challenged and must stare directly into the face of evil, they are bonded, distinguished from the rest of the world, as covenantal

Fox News’s Jesse Watters did not appreciate that Target is selling a LGBTQ-flag waving nutcracker, so The Daily Show sent correspondent Grace Kuhlenschmidt out on the streets to interview ordinary people in an attempt to show Watters was out of touch. However, she took the segment from the realm of the troll to the realm

Squabbling delegates to the UN climate summit, COP28, have failed to agree on a plan to phase out fossil fuels, leaving the issue in limbo and calling into question the entire COP process as a venue to deal with climate change. Advertisement As long as the goal of cutting carbon emissions remains voluntary, nations are

In America today, a doctor has the right to castrate a minor, but a counselor cannot provide therapy to one struggling with homosexual inclinations or even gender dysphoria. According to the federal courts, banning drag shows for minors violates the First Amendment, but banning parents from seeking psychological help for a child’s homosexual desires does

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff deleted a social media post celebrating Hanukkah after botching the story behind the Jewish holiday. On Monday, Emhoff posted a picture of himself and his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, lighting a menorah candle to commemorate the holiday. The picture was accompanied by Emhoff’s retelling of the Hanukkah story and its

Alex Thompson at Axios brought out the anonymous White House insiders for a story on “Biden’s Hunter trigger,” how Joe Biden is distraught over his son Hunter’s indictments. “In private, no issue is more likely to anger or sadden President Biden than attacks on his son Hunter, according to people close to the president who have seen