A lawyer representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein said Wednesday that the American public is ‘going to be appalled’ about documents relating to the disgraced late financier that have not been released by the federal government. ‘The government has mistreated them after Jeffrey Epstein mistreated them,’ Bradley Edwards said of the victims in Washington, D.C. Edwards spoke during a news conference that ...
David J. Bier Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is diverting criminal law enforcement agents away from their investigations and enforcement responsibilities to conduct civil immigration enforcement operations on a massive scale. New data highlight how widespread this misuse of government personnel and resources is. Congress should prevent this diversion of appropriated funds in the next government spending bill. According to ...
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo On September 1, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that President Trump may declare a “housing emergency” in the fall. This move comes after a long list of politicians, commentators, and think tanks have deemed the US housing market to be in a “crisis” that demands immediate federal government action. Additionally, Bessent has claimed that administration officials ...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is facing a GOP-led censure resolution on Wednesday after her fiery remarks at a pro-Palestinian conference. Tlaib spoke at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit over the weekend, where she condemned both Democrats and Republicans for supporting Israel as its military campaign in Gaza continues. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., who introduced the measure, accused Tlaib ...
President Xi Jinping declared China’s ‘great rejuvenation’ unstoppable on Wednesday as he used the country’s largest-ever military parade to hint at reunification with Taiwan and to flaunt advanced weapons designed to rival American power. Xi said the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would ‘resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity,’ underscoring Beijing’s ambitions toward Taiwan. ‘The great rejuvenation of the ...
Eight fighter jets will conduct a flyover when Polish President Karol Nawrocki arrives at the White House Wednesday morning, Fox News Digital has learned. President Donald Trump’s meeting with Nawrocki, whom Trump backed in the Polish elections earlier in 2025, comes amid ongoing negotiations between Poland’s neighboring Russia and Ukraine to end the conflict between the two countries. ‘President Trump ...
Jeffrey Miron Do government policies result from good intentions or from the self-interest of those who expect to benefit? Often, the answer is “both.” The classic illustration is US alcohol prohibition. Baptists thought it saved souls; Bootleggers believed it generated excess profits for those willing to break the law. New research applies this perspective to the rise and fall of ...
Matthew Cavedon Architecture can say a lot. The places that do the citizens’ work with the taxpayers’ money should be meaningfully open forums, not defiantly hostile fortresses (like, say, Boston’s City Hall, a notorious concrete middle finger to the public). That is especially the case for courts. While they face security challenges, the Constitution requires all their proceedings to be ...
High street cosmetics chain Lush has closed all of its UK shops, factories and its website in a one-day protest over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The Dorset-based company said the gesture, carried out on Wednesday 3 September 2025, was intended as an act of solidarity, with shop windows across the UK displaying the message: “Stop starving Gaza – we ...
Dominik Lett Following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Republicans’ mammoth $4 trillion tax and spending law, Congress is now slowly turning to address the next series of budget debates, including annual appropriations for FY2026 and the expiration of pandemic-era enhanced Obamacare subsidies. As Romina Boccia and I outlined in our fiscal agenda paper earlier this year, ...