A step-by-step guide to the most frustrating, fascinating, and fragile process in American democracy The Myth vs. The Reality If you learned about the legislative process from Schoolhouse Rock!, you got the kindergarten version. Yes, a bill starts in Congress and goes to the President. But between “I’m just a bill” and “yes, it’s finally…
For decades, the idea of a space war sounded like science fiction. Today, it is becoming a serious military planning issue. The United States, China, Russia and their allies are developing increasingly sophisticated space capabilities, while military forces are becoming more dependent on satellites for communications, navigation, intelligence and missile warning. That is creating a…
Sylvester Stallone says he told Donald Trump that serving as a special Hollywood ambassador would not work. Then, according to the actor, he discovered on television that Trump had announced him for the job anyway. Sylvester Stallone has revealed that he never formally agreed to become one of Donald Trump’s special ambassadors to Hollywood, despite…
For the first time, Washington has publicly acknowledged that American weapons are already deployed in orbit. The Pentagon has revealed almost nothing about them—leaving one crucial question unanswered: what can these weapons actually do? The United States has confirmed something it had previously avoided saying publicly: American weapons are now operating in space. Air Force…
President Donald Trump says the United States has secured a permanent security agreement with Denmark and Greenland. The proposed arrangement could expand America’s military role in the Arctic without transferring sovereignty over the strategically important island. The United States has spent months pursuing greater control over Greenland. Now, President Donald Trump says Washington has reached…
The Gulf’s ambition to become a global artificial intelligence hub has collided with an unexpected engineering problem: how do you protect enormous computing facilities when the region itself is exposed to military conflict? The United Arab Emirates is revising plans for a vast artificial intelligence data-center campus after Iranian missile and drone attacks damaged cloud-computing…
As the 2026 midterm campaign enters its final two-month sprint, President Donald Trump’s approval rating is stuck at a career-low 33%, and Republicans are beginning to accept that their fate may hinge on an “all-about-Trump” strategy they never wanted.reuters+2 The numbers that have GOP strategists nervous Multiple recent polls paint a bleak picture for the…
With four weeks left until the September 30 deadline, Governor Newsom faces the most consequential tech-regulation decision of his career — and Silicon Valley is lobbying hard. September 4, 2026 — Four days after California lawmakers gavelled out of session, the Capitol is quiet. But in Sacramento’s corner offices and Silicon Valley boardrooms, the real…
Netanyahu Vows to Defy Trump: “I Will Tell Them No” — White House Showdown Tuesday Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu publicly rejects President Trump’s demand to withdraw troops from Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza. What happens next at Tuesday’s White House meeting? The Unthinkable Split In a stunning rebuke that no geopolitical analyst saw coming, Israeli Prime…
The pharmacy label won’t say “tariff surcharge.” But your receipt will. President Trump announced Tuesday that generic drugs imported into the U.S. will face tariffs escalating to 200% by 2029 — a move designed to force drug manufacturing back to American soil. The announcement sent Indian pharmaceutical stocks tumbling Wednesday, but the real story isn’t…
