The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded near flat Friday, after the blue-chip average briefly topped the key 40,000 level for the first time in the previous session. The 30-stock average rose 40 points, or 0.1%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were also up 0.1%. The Dow reached an intraday high of 40,051.05, above the psychologically important 40,000 level, before pulling back to end the day down 0.1%. “The Dow’s remarkable rise has exceeded many...

When Donald Trump took the stage at a CNN town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire, one year ago, a crowd of his supporters roared and jeered all through the event, overwhelming the moderator and effectively taking control of the event. President Joe Biden’s advisers noticed. They resolved in private that if Biden ever faced Trump on a debate stage, there would be no one in the peanut gallery. That demand became part of the reelection campaign’s agreed-upon proposal to Trump this week...

U.S. magician David Copperfield has been accused by 16 women of sexual misconduct, with incidents reportedly spanning several decades. Copperfield, through his legal team, has vehemently denied all claims, protesting his innocence and describing the allegations as "completely false and entirely implausible." David Copperfield is an American entertainer, renowned for his captivating illusions and television specials. Born David Seth Kotkin, he adopted the stage name "David Copperfield" from...

One by one, the shibboleths that our public-health authorities put forward as reliable guidelines for behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic are being revealed as scientifically baseless health theater. The question is whether anyone will learn from this. The latest admission is found in the closed-door congressional testimony of former National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins, revealed by NR’s own James Lynch. In that testimony, Collins clarified that the origin...

Magician David Copperfield has been accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women, according to an investigation released Wednesday. The claims include that more than half the women were under 18 at the time, that at least three of them were drugged, and that many were groped while onstage with the magician, according to an investigation by the Guardian. The incidents span from “the late 1980s to 2014,” and one of the allegations surfaced in 2018 in the wake...

In an interview with Time, former President Donald Trump was asked, with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, if states should monitor women’s pregnancies and/or prosecute women who get an abortion in violation of state law. Trump said “they might,” but that’s for each state to decide. In several campaign speeches, however, President Joe Biden has twisted Trump’s words, claiming that Trump said “states should monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans.” (...

The Supreme Court delivered a firm and unambiguous rebuke to some of America’s most reckless judges on Thursday, ruling those judges were wrong to declare an entire federal agency unconstitutional in a decision that threatened to trigger a second Great Depression. In a sensible world, no judge would have taken the plaintiffs arguments in CFPB v. Community Financial Services Association seriously. Briefly, they claimed that the Constitution limits Congress’s...

The Supreme Court’s decision this week upholding the funding structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau surprised some court watchers since it pinned Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. against each other — with Justice Thomas authoring the majority opinion and Justice Alito authoring the dissent. Both are viewed as the high court’s most conservative justices who are originalists, and in the past, they’ve typically been...

Senate Republicans are on a collision course with Democrats who are insisting that nondefense spending programs receive equal treatment with defense programs. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) says he won’t accept Democrats’ demand to give nondefense programs the same increases — dollar for dollar — as defense programs, which he said should be considered a much higher priority. “I can’t accept that at all,” McConnell said last week of dollar-for-dollar parity...

Michael Cohen gives Donald Trump his best day in hush money trial so far