Month: June 2023

House Financial Committee Oversight Hearing on Department of Housing

The House Financial Committee holds an oversight hearing on the Department of Housing at 2:00 p.m. ET on June 21. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis will testify. …


LIVE NOW: House Financial Committee Oversight Hearing on Department of Housing

The House Financial Committee holds an oversight hearing on the Department of Housing at 2:00 p.m. ET on June 21. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis will testify. …


Bill Aimed at Preventing Future COVID Vaccine Mandates Begins Second Reading

A Conservative-led bill that aims to prevent the introduction of future COVID-19 vaccine mandates began its second reading in Parliament on June 20. “For those who made different personal medical choices, the government made them outcasts in their own communities, firing them from jobs, banning them from travelling, and ostracizing them from their friends,” said…


Idaho Man Charged With 4 Counts of Murder in Shooting Deaths of His Neighbors, Including 2 Teens

KELLOGG, Idaho—A northern Idaho man has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary after prosecutors said he went to a neighbor’s home and shot and killed the family there, including two teens. Majorjon Kaylor, 31, of Kellogg, was arrested Sunday night shortly after the shooting in the small mining community. Killed were…


An American Crisis

Commentary The American system is facing a real crisis. The prospect of a former president being indicted in four different jurisdictions—New York City, Atlanta, Miami, and the District of Columbia—by Democrat prosecutors is a spectacle of enormous danger to the future of the American Republic. Colleen McCullough captures the danger of politics degenerating into violence,…


American Civil Society Needs a Warfighting Awareness

Commentary Enemy actions confirm the brutal truth: America’s homicidal foes make America a battleground. Globally they target U.S. allies and interests. Locally they target American lives and civil society. 9/11 demonstrated terrorists can and will kill en masse on American soil. Their goals are absolute. We learned the only way to stop them is to…


Want to Be an Astronaut? Get Ready to Take Advantage of America’s Private Space Boom

Tickets are on sale now for a ride to space aboard Sir Richard Branson’s “spaceline” Virgin Galactic. The starting price? $450,000. Nearly two years after the historic flight that earned its founder his astronaut wings, the company revealed plans to launch its first two commercial spaceflights. The company also opened ticket sales for seats aboard…


More Interest-Rate Hikes Are to Come as Inflation Pressure Still ‘Runs High’: Fed Chair Powell

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday affirmed that more interest-rate hikes are on the way as inflation in the United States is still too high above the central bank’s target of 2 percent. “Nearly all” participants in the policy-making Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) “expect that it will be appropriate to raise interest rates…


Silent Majority Pushes Back

Commentary Understanding who your customers are is smart business. Many Starbucks outlets are toning down Pride Month celebrations, according to several reports, though the coffee chain’s top executives deny it’s official policy. Pixar’s film “Elemental,” which features Disney’s first nonbinary character, flopped over the weekend. Moviegoers “iced” it, says the Hollywood Reporter, producing the lowest…


Man Killed in Shooting at San Diego Juneteenth Celebration ID’d

SAN DIEGO—Authorities on June 20 publicly identified the 20-year-old man who was fatally shot during a Juneteenth celebration at NTC Park in Liberty Station. Patrol officers responding to reports of a shooting about 6:45 p.m. on June 17 arrived at the park to find numerous people fleeing and Jonathan Shields-Pullum of San Diego suffering from…