Just a few months ago‚ it was hard to see the ingredients of a Joe Biden comeback—even while squinting at the recipe. The president began the election year with his approval rating at historic lows. He was trailing Donald Trump in almost all of the key battleground states‚ as well as in national polling averages. Influential liberals were so concerned that the octogenarian incumbent did not have another campaign in him that some were openly calling for him to be replaced as the nominee....

The head of an Iraqi militia participating in a coalition of groups that have waged attacks against U.S. troops and Israel has told Newsweek that his forces are prepared to escalate their campaign significantly if President Joe Biden does not meet their demands. According to Sheikh Mohammed al-Tamimi‚ secretary-general of Faylaq al-Waad al-Sadiq‚ all they are asking for is the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from their country. The group‚ whose name translates to the "True Promise...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new law into effect Wednesday‚ eliminating squatters’ rights in the state. The law increases penalties for squatting and also makes it easier and quicker for property owners to have squatters evicted from their homes. DeSantis said “homes are being invaded” in other states and accused the law of siding with squatters. DeSantis referred to squatting as a fad and said the goal was to have “the thumb of the law” on the scales on the side of property owners...

The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled a series of voting reform laws passed by the state legislature in 2021 violate the fundamental right to vote. The ruling‚ issued Wednesday‚ reaffirms a 2022 lower court ruling that found four voting-related bills from the 2021 legislature session are unconstitutional and cannot be forced. The case combined a challenge against Montana Secretary of State Christie Jacobsen brought by the Montana Democratic Party and various youth...

Facilitated by Left-wing activist groups‚ a network of websites has emerged to ship unregulated foreign abortion pills across the country with no age verification‚ no prescription‚ and no concern about state laws that may ban medication-induced abortions.  There are dozens of sites sending out abortion drugs‚ many of which are not approved by the FDA. In many red states‚ like Tennessee and Texas‚ where abortion is banned‚ all it takes to circumvent the law is access to the internet‚ a...

It’s hard to avoid the impression that Joe Biden’s plan to deploy the U.S. military to construct a humanitarian pier in Gaza wasn’t that well thought out. The pier proposal‚ which the president revealed during this year’s State of the Union Address‚ conflicts with his desire to limit America’s direct involvement in Israel’s defensive war against Hamas. Soon after the announcement‚ independent reports indicated that the project would take two months to complete and involve 1‚100 U.S. service...

South Dakota became the first state in the nation to end the confusion about the ability of doctors to provide emergency care to pregnant women‚ which is allowed under every pro-life bill in the country.   Gov. Kristi Noem signed the nation’s first so-called "Med Ed" bill that proponents say will protect the health and safety of pregnant women and push back against abortion misinformation confusing some doctors about when they can perform an emergency abortion to save a life. ...

The British government has been accused of being “pathetic” in the face of the threat from Communist China after announcing a relatively mild round of sanctions after admitting that hackers “affiliated to the Chinese state” were responsible for two major cyber attacks against British democratic institutions and parliamentarians. Speaking from the floor of the House of Commons on Monday‚ Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden formally accused Beijing of being behind the 2021 hack of Britain’s...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted seven Chinese nationals suspected of hacking on behalf of China's spy agency. Over 14 years‚ the defendants' network allegedly targeted critics of Beijing‚ politicians‚ and companies in the U.S. and elsewhere. The U.S. and other Western governments are increasingly concerned about Chinese state-affiliated espionage in light of recently exposed hacking campaigns believed to be paving the way for cyberattacks against critical infrastructure...

Beijing has lashed out at the United States and the United Kingdom for imposing sanctions over alleged Chinese government-backed cyberattacks‚ calling the Western allies’ move an act of “political manipulation.” The US and the UK announced Monday a set of criminal charges and sanctions against seven Chinese hackers for allegedly conducting sweeping attacks on behalf of China’s civilian intelligence agency. The yearslong campaign allegedly targeted American officials‚ senators‚...