Month: March 2025

The NFL’s free agency negotiating window opens Monday at noon in the lead-up to the start of the new league year on Wednesday, as some of the league’s biggest players have some big decisions to make.  Big-name quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson and Sam Darnold will be among the biggest stories of free agency, as…

EXCLUSIVE: Growing up under Soviet rule, Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovilė Šakalienė was not allowed to celebrate Christmas. Her mother was born in a Siberian prison camp.  The crime? Her teenage brother was caught handing out leaflets that said, “Lithuania is free.” After 50 years of Soviet occupation during the Cold War, many Lithuanians today are…

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is gearing up for a vote on Tuesday on a bill, which, if approved, will avert a partial government shutdown during the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s term. Given the lack of support from Democrats, Johnson is betting Republicans can muscle through largely by themselves on  the 99-page…

Just over a decade ago, I was pulling 24-hour shifts with CalFire, driving my beat-up Corolla to work, and dreaming about building something bigger than myself. Today, I am leading a group of American investors who have submitted an offer to purchase TikTok’s U.S. operations. Life comes at you fast, doesn’t it?  But here’s the…

Former Obama advisor Van Jones declared that the Democratic Party was “screwed” and trapped between two deeply unpopular factions. The CNN commentator couldn’t help but laugh at the “nightmare” Democrats were in when asked about the ongoing friction between party members. “Look, man, we’re screwed,” Jones said on “CNN Newsroom” Sunday. “I mean, Democrats don’t…

Congress will vote this week on a continuing resolution to fund the government. The government runs out of money on Friday. Continuing resolutions are not the ideal way to fund the government. This continuing resolution, however, will allow President Donald Trump to continue carrying out his popular agenda.  Ending wasteful Washington spending is a key…

The onslaught of legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s early actions brought by federal workers and advocacy groups have found their way into mostly friendly courts, overseen, for the most part, by sympathetic judges. These plaintiffs have employed a well-known, pervasive strategy used by both sides of the political aisle, known as forum or “judge…

In 10 years, the United States is on course to add $20 trillion to the national debt, setting the total sum owed by American taxpayers at over $56 trillion. Every year we spend in the red, interest on the debt continues to accumulate, until by 2051, when interest alone will be the largest line item…

The Democrats are facing a tough moment following President Donald Trump’s election. What do they believe and who do they want to be? Their childish outbursts at the joint address left it unclear.   You’d be excused for thinking they cared about women. After all, many of them arrived at President Trump’s address to Congress…

Although Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has highlighted a rise in illegal immigrant arrests under President Donald Trump, the agency is now grappling with space limitations for detained criminal migrants. “It’s got these lofty goals, with big numbers, and definitely not a lack of trying and a lack of effort in trying to make that…