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Fentanyl kills 70,000 per year, yet Democrats say GOP must vote on Thursday for a migration expansion bill if they want to save Americans.

Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Science, described on Substack a discussion that occurred during the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the closing plenary session, he posed to a “panel of scientific leaders” the question, “Who is a scientist?” The answers “ranged from very narrow (just people who are doing or planning research) all the way to very broad (every living human).”

Congress is back (yikes), and Speaker Johnson can force a Ukraine aid vote—and it would pass. But even Johnson isn’t the real appeaser here.

The nuclear company’s expanding corporate empire is an urgent target for sanctions.

Mark Judge, the high school friend of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has publicly claimed that Democrats threatened and extorted him.

Some thoughts on AI and travel

Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt called for reforms to the state's civil asset forfeiture laws in his State of the State address Monday.

"It's crazy to me that somebody can be pulled over and have their cash and truck taken for an alleged crime, get acquitted of that crime, but they still never get their property back," Stitt said.

A new analysis of Republican-led "election integrity" prosecutions of alleged voter fraud found not only an extremely low success rate, but a common theme of prosecutions disproportionately targeting Democrats and minority voters.This week the Washington Post published a report analyzing voter fraud...

Elon Musk’s Tesla has agreed to recall over two million cars in the US after regulators identified a defect with its ‘Autopilot’ software system.