If Israel gets into a major war with Hezbollah, the terrorist group, is threatening to fight without rules and without a ceiling. That serious threat comes as a spat between the Biden administration and Israel over the U.S. withholding weapons may be over. Diplomatic efforts by an American envoy sent to head off an all-out war between Hezbollah and Israel don't appear to be succeeding. Now, both Hezbollah and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are ramping up their threats against...

Human-induced climate change made recent extreme heat in the US south-west, Mexico and Central America around 35 times more likely, scientists say. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group studied excess heat between May and early June, when the US heatwave was concentrated in south-west states including California, Nevada and Arizona. Extreme temperatures in Mexico also claimed lives during the period. Such attribution studies take some time to complete, so it is too soon for...

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Trump-era tax on overseas investments, rejecting an argument from a Washington state couple in a case that could have jeopardized existing tax provisions and torpedoed Democratic talk of a wealth tax. A 7-2 majority upheld the tax. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion and Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissent. At issue in the closely watched tax case was whether the government could levy a tax on investment proceeds...

Most Americans are so dissatisfied with the economy that they believe the nation is already in recession. Yet the Biden administration often cites robust job growth as proof that the economy is in great shape.  New data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia throw cold water on that claim, however. It shows recent job growth has been 80% less than previously estimated. Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)...

TOPLINE Russian-American Ksenia Karelina stood trial in a Russian court on Thursday, after Russian officials claimed she committed treason by fundraising for Ukraine’s military because of an alleged $51.80 donation to a pro-Ukraine charity. Karelina, 33, faces a closed-door trial in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on charges of treason, though the court reportedly adjourned the case until Aug. 7 on Thursday for an unspecified reason. Karelina, who was born in Russia and became a U.S....

A man, clearly homeless, steps onto a New York subway train. He shakes, sways, and talks to himself, lurching around as the train moves, in the throes of a psychotic disorder. He’s someone in need of help — and for many people, though they’d never admit it publicly, a figure to fear. The perspective of the American media and the liberal journalists and writers who dominate it is that these fears are wicked, bigoted, even “bourgeois.” Efforts to explore root causes related to mental illness...

he first shock wave shattered aisles stacked almost to the ceiling with home improvement products. The next Russian bomb streaked down like a comet seconds later, unleashing flames that left the megastore an ashen shell. A third bomb failed to detonate when it landed behind the Epicenter shopping complex in Kharkiv. Investigators hope it will help them trace the supply chain for the latest generation of retrofitted Russian “glide bombs” that are laying waste to eastern Ukraine. The...

ndependent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has missed the deadline to qualify for the CNN Presidential Debate set for next week. The June 27 event marks the first debate in U.S. history between a sitting president, Democrat Joe Biden, and a former president — his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump.

A high-level US Congressional delegation met the Dalai Lama in India’s hillside town of Dharamshala on Wednesday, angering China which calls the Tibetan leader a dangerous separatist. Democratic former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Republican representative Michael McCaul were among the top leaders from Washington who reached the Dalai Lama’s scenic Indian exiled residence on Tuesday. They took part in a high-level meeting and ...

With the expectation that a decision on Trump’s immunity question will come by the end of this week or next, the former president posted to his Truth Social account Sunday night with a final plea to the nine justices to find that he enjoys protection from prosecution. “Without Presidential Immunity, a President will not be able to properly function, or make decisions, in the best interest of the United States of America,” Trump wrote. He added that future leaders “will always be...