Michael F. Cannon Congressional Democrats are refusing to support a resumption of the few federal operations that the current “government shutdown” has paused. Among Democrats’ demands is that Congress rescind the meager Medicaid spending restraints in the recent Republican budget, and thus increase federal Medicaid grants to states. Economists Martin B. Hackmann, Juan S. Rojas, and Nicolas R. Ziebarth offer ...
While 2025 is considered an ‘off-year election,’ without the high-profile presidential showdown of last year or the competitive midterm elections that could shift the congressional balance of power next year, there are more than a dozen local races across the country this year. Election Day is on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. Whether voting early or in-person on Election Day, it’s ...
President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would revive nuclear weapons testing — which the U.S. has not done since 1992 — left experts, lawmakers and military personnel scratching their heads Thursday. The president announced, just before his high-stakes meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he is instructing the Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons on an ‘equal basis’ as ...
Jeffrey A. Singer This weekend, we once again go through the ritual of “falling back” after “springing forward” last March as Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends. We also go through the semiannual ritual of listening to politicians in Congress call for an end to circadian whiplash. Yet nothing ever seems to change. But it should. We would be better off ...
Colleen Hroncich For seven years, Amber Dawson homeschooled her kids while wishing for a different kind of school. “I just kept saying, ‘If there were a school like this, I would not homeschool,’” she recalls. She frequently dreamed of creating that school herself. Then a friend called her in May 2020 and said, “You’ve been talking about opening a school ...
Leon’s co-founder John Vincent is in discussions to buy back the fast-food brand from Asda, in a move that could see him reclaim control of the chain for less than a third of its 2021 sale price. The entrepreneur, who founded Leon alongside Henry Dimbleby and Allegra McEvedy in 2004, is understood to be in advanced negotiations with Asda — ...
The Bank of England is preparing for a finely poised vote on interest rates next Thursday, as policymakers weigh the benefits of lower inflation against the threat of weaker economic growth following upcoming tax rises. Markets, which only weeks ago expected no change in rates until mid-2025, have now sharply shifted expectations. Investors are betting that the Monetary Policy Committee ...
Britain’s factories are set to benefit from hundreds of millions of pounds in savings after the government announced sweeping cuts to industrial energy costs in a bid to stem a wave of closures across the manufacturing sector. Peter Kyle, the Business Secretary, confirmed that from next year energy-intensive industries such as steel, glass and ceramics will receive a 90 per ...
The Labour government has unveiled a record £55 billion investment in research and development (R&D), marking the largest long-term commitment to science and innovation in British history. The announcement underscores Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s pledge to transform the UK into a “science and technology superpower” by the end of the decade. The plan, confirmed by the Department of Science, Innovation ...
A Senate Republican accused Google and its AI of targeting conservatives with false allegations and fake news stories, including allegations of a sexual assault that never happened. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., wrote to Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a letter first obtained by Fox News Digital that Google’s large language model AI Gemma allegedly produced false and defamatory allegations against ...