The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration on Monday in a split decision that will allow federal agents to cut razor wire installed by Texas officials along the U.S.-Mexico border amid the worsening crisis created by President Biden's policies. The 5-4 decision granted an emergency appeal filed by the Biden administration to reverse an injunction from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and now allows the feds to dismantle concertina wire while the lawsuit over Texas' efforts to...

Miranda Blair didn't vote for Donald Trump in 2016 because he scared her. This week‚ she was wearing a bright red "Make America Great Again" hat as she waited in sub-freezing temperatures to hear him speak in Manchester‚ New Hampshire. A lot happened in between to change Ms Blair's thinking. "Just a few years ago under Donald Trump‚ I felt like I could afford groceries and bring my girls skiing‚ and do all the things we wanted to do‚" she said. The 40-year-old sales manager voted...

Donald Trump has a problem no matter what happens in New Hampshire on Tuesday night: There’s a whole swath of the Republican electorate and a good chunk of independents who appear firmly committed to not voting for him in November if he becomes the nominee. It’s an issue that became starkly apparent in polling ahead of the Iowa caucuses‚ when an NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of voters in that state found that fully 43 percent of Nikki Haley supporters said they would...

The state already has seen the budget-busting effects of expanding coverage but is now doubling down. Free health care for illegal immigrants -- what could go wrong? California taxpayers are about to find out. Starting January 1‚ the Golden State began offering Medicaid coverage to more than 700‚000 illegal immigrants‚ the latest and by far the largest such program in the country. Yet other states have recognized that this new handout will see spiraling enrollment and...

Russia launched another wave of missile strikes across Ukraine in the early hours Tuesday. The capital Kyiv was targeted‚ as was the second-largest city of Kharkiv. Ukrainian officials detailed increasing numbers of casualties and ongoing rescue efforts‚ as well as damaged residential and non-residential buildings. At least 40 people were injured and five people have died in the attacks‚ Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said Tuesday. Vitali Klitschko‚ Kyiv’s city mayor‚ said a...

One of the most well-settled questions in US constitutional law is that duly enacted federal laws overcome all state laws that conflict with them‚ and that states may not prevent federal officials from performing their official job duties. This principle is written into the Constitution itself‚ which provides that federal law “shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby.” The Supreme Court has even held‚ in In re Neagle (1890...

COVID disruptions to the global supply chain revealed the world's largest tech battle is for semiconductors‚ the key to dominating international technology and computing power.  Semiconductor chips are basically the brains of modern electronics. You might be surprised that the United States isn't the world leader in this multi-billion-dollar industry – it's not even second. The U.S. government's goal is simply to stay ahead of China. Experts are calling it the 'chip war‚' and Taiwan...

Israel has said that its forces suffered its deadliest attack since the start of the war against Palestinian militant group Hamas after 21 soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip on Monday. Another three soldiers were killed in a separate attack earlier in the day. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said reservists had been preparing explosives to demolish two buildings in central Gaza‚ close to the kibbutz of Kissufim on the Israeli side of the border‚ at around 4...

The United States and Britain carried out large-scale military strikes on Monday against eight sites in Yemen controlled by Houthi militants‚ according to the two countries. The strikes signaled that the Biden administration intends to wage a sustained and‚ at least for now‚ open-ended campaign against the Iran-backed group that has disrupted traffic in vital international sea lanes. The strikes — the eighth in nearly two weeks — hit multiple targets at each site‚ and were bigger and broader...

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