Iranian hackers stole sensitive information from the Trump campaign earlier this summer and emailed it to individuals affiliated with the Biden campaign, U.S. investigators revealed Wednesday. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI and CISA released a statement saying the emails were sent in June and July and "contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump's campaign."

When immigration opponents make the case for closing the country's borders, one common argument is the costs that immigrants incur. But recent statistics throw cold water on those claims, finding that the foreign-born actually use fewer public health dollars than people born in the U.S. "Immigrant households have much higher use of…Medicaid (42 percent vs. 23 percent)" than native-born households, according to a 2015 report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). "Prior research...

Israeli officials announced Thursday the arrest of an Israeli man whom Iran recruited to carry out assassination plots against top Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The individual was identified as Moti Maman, 73. He was indicted Thursday, after which Shin Bet, Israel’s security agency, and Israeli police revealed it publicly. Maman was arrested after committing security offenses involving his contact with Iran. Maman was smuggled into Iran twice, according to...

Two years after former President Richard M. Nixon launched a war on drugs in 1971, calling substance use the nation’s “public enemy No. 1,” he made a startling admission during a meeting in the Oval Office. Speaking to a small group of aides and advisers at the White House in March 1973, Nixon said he knew that marijuana was “not particularly dangerous.” Nixon, who had publicly argued that curbing drug use globally warranted an “all-out offensive,” also privately expressed unease...

enator John Kennedy has sparked a backlash after he told an Arab American activist to "hide [her] head in a bag" during a hearing about hate crimes. Maya Berry, the founder of the Arab American Institute, appeared before a Senate Judiciary hearing to discuss hate crimes in the country on Tuesday.

Why should humans do anything, if machines can do it better? The answer is crucial to the future of human civilization—and may just lie in religious texts from centuries ago. From the digital (Google searches and Slack chats) to the purely mechanical (washing machines and microwaves), humans use tools nearly constantly to enhance or replace our own labor. Those that save time and effort are easy to appreciate—I have yet to meet someone who misses scrubbing clothes by hand. But the rapid rise of...

Another unwell person sought to kill Donald Trump, according to the FBI and other officials. We should all be grateful that no one was hurt, and that the Secret Service and local law enforcement appear to have done their jobs properly. I’m also grateful to former President Trump for assigning blame for the foiled assassination attempt to Democratic rhetoric, specifically that of “Biden and Harris.” On Monday, he told Fox News Digital, “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the...

Former President Donald Trump is littering his public remarks with fictional stories. This isn’t run-of-the-mill political spin, the kind of statistic-twisting and accomplishment-exaggerating that political candidates of all stripes engage in. Rather, the Republican presidential nominee is telling colorful lies that are completely untethered to reality. Trump’s inflammatory assertion about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, whom he baselessly accused at the September presidential...

CLAIM: “Trump is trying to create this new government entity that will monitor all pregnancies to enforce their abortion bans.” VERDICT: FALSE. This is a lie that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz repeat despite numerous fact checks. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president, speaking at a rally in Asheville, North Carolina, on Tuesday, repeated a claim that Vice President Kamala Harris made at the Democratic National Convention and again at...

Germany’s government announced plans to impose stricter controls at the country’s land borders, not close its borders, contrary to posts making the claim online. “Germany closing its Borders for the next 6 months to get illegal migration under control,” said Sept. 10 Facebook posts. While it is true that Germany has tightened security on its land borders, this does not amount to a full closure. The country’s interior ministry announced, on Sept. 9 a “temporary reintroduction...