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Power transmission towers line a street in Redondo Beach, California.

Utility companies want to shift risks on struggling families

Todd Snitchler · July 22, 2026 9:00 am

Reenactors at Mount Vernon in 2019. (Photo courtesy of Mount Vernon.)

On This Day: Washington fears a ‘great deficiency’ in weapons

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA).

Steelers, civic leaders, and Gov. Josh Shapiro break records and pull off flawless Day 1 of NFL Draft

"The embroidered Queenaas Crown badge and the Union Jack flag, the flag of the United Kingdom whom Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will have reigned over, along with the British Commonwealth, for 60 years from February 6th 1952 to February 2012."

When Charles III meets King Donald

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump kisses a "Women for Trump" placard during a rally at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida on October 12, 2016. / AFP / Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump to corporate America: Kiss my a**, please

Demonstrators rally outside a Target location.

Not all immigrants are equal

Dan Hannan December 5, 2025 5:12 am

FILE - An information packet and an American flag are placed on a chair at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Miami Field Office on Aug. 17, 2018, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Closing the door on immigration? Not yet

Michael Barone December 4, 2025 2:21 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office at the White House on February 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump and Zelensky are meeting today to sign a preliminary agreement on sharing Ukraine’s mineral resources that Trump says will allow America to recoup aid provided to Kyiv while supporting Ukraine’s economy. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio also attended the meeting.

Do voters care about a ‘president of peace’?

Byron York December 3, 2025 1:40 pm

Model train and canteen memorabilia.

Connellsville, Pennsylvania, honors its past

Salena Zito December 3, 2025 10:44 am

U.S. military strike on suspected "narco-terrorist" boat in Caribbean Sea.

Fishy smell comes from Democrats, not from drug boats

Hugo Gurdon December 3, 2025 6:00 am

Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis.

Requiem for a scandal

Byron York December 1, 2025 2:02 pm

Collage of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), left, and President Donald Trump

Does Mark Kelly ever stop lying about Trump?

Christopher Tremoglie December 1, 2025 10:57 am

national-guard-shooter-and-victim

What drove the DC shooter?

Byron York November 28, 2025 1:21 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to a wreath laying ceremony at the Victory Square, on November 25, 2025 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Vladimir Putin makes a three-day state visit to the Kyrgyz Republic. During his stay he takes part in a regular session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO). Putin will also hold talks with President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov to discuss development of the strategic partnership and allied relationship between Russia and Kyrgyzstan. (Photo by Contributor#8523328/Getty Images)

The fall of Ukraine means the end of the post-1945 Western order

Dan Hannan November 28, 2025 10:02 am

Former Vice President Dick Cheney stands outside.

Dick Cheney: Always unintimidated

Michael Barone November 26, 2025 5:02 pm

A collage of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI).

Elissa Slotkin, Mark Kelly, and Democratic privilege

Christopher Tremoglie November 26, 2025 12:56 pm

Hand Waving the Flag of the United Stated of America

Be thankful for America

Hugh Hewitt November 26, 2025 8:01 am