Surely, I have plenty of company in wanting to jump off the Donald Trump distraction express. Rage is its fuel. A weekend isn't short enough to contain the demands on attention. Just this last two-day break encountered: The cinematic ICE raids in Minneapolis. Threats against Exxon for its ...

Finally, the United States will follow through on its NATO commitments. That'd be the cheeky interpretation of President Donald Trump's announcement, via Truth Social, that he wants the U.S. defense budget to be $1.5 trillion. This would represent a stunning 50% increase over the current ...

Americans who remember how an incident in Minneapolis six years ago plunged the whole country into a summer of rioting -- then years of elevated criminal violence -- should think carefully about where the protests over the death of Renee Good are leading. Like the killing of George Floyd, ...

The Associated Press recently reported on the disturbing rise of deepfake bullying that is occurring in schools throughout the country. AI-generated technology allows users to maliciously alter classmates' images and create videos of them. AP writer Heather Hollingsworth mentions an incident in ...

President Donald Trump is afraid of getting impeached again. He said as much earlier this week. "You got to win the midterms, because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be -- I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me," he said. "I'll get impeached." He spoke those words, ...

It was almost six years ago -- during the COVID-19 pandemic -- that then-Attorney General Bill Barr called a "virtual press conference" to announce that the Justice Department was taking action against Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela. "Today, I am here to talk about the former Maduro regime and ...