California News: The University of California Board of Regents today named Dr. Julio Frenk to be the new UCLA chancellor. Frenk had been president of the University of Miami since 2015, where he led an ambitious fund raising drive that netted

In a razor-thin rules vote, the House has approved a vote to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in criminal contempt of Congress, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions between congressional Republicans and the Justice Department. With a final tally of 208-207,

For the last three-and-a-half years, the Democrats have owned the Jan. 6 narrative. Republicans in Congress and the media gave it away without a fight. The good news is that party standard-bearer Donald Trumpappears intent on taking it back. On Sunday

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) was an American writer of short stories. One of his best-known short stories was “The Devil and Daniel Webster” (1936), where a badly struggling New Hampshire farmer named Jabez Stone signs a contract with Mr. Scratch (the

When an armed man tried to rob a passenger aboard a Chicago train, he learned the hard way that he had picked the wrong man to target in a robbery. This guy wasn’t about to fall victim to crime. Instead, he

A Virginia sheriff’s deputy died of a medical emergency after stopping a bleeding man on a moped who became combative and said, “People were after him and trying to kill him.” Sgt. Floyd H. Miles, Jr. was monitoring traffic on Sunday when

As the Gaza war continues, the U.N. embarks upon a policy that rewards bad conduct while punishing the good. While U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres just placed Israel and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on a blacklist of those who harm children

By Ed Thompson In the movie Kindergarten Cop, Arnold Schwarzenegger stands in front a classroom of wild kids and says he has a headache. A kid says, “Maybe it’s a tumor.” And Arnold, in his rich Austrian accent says, “It’s not

A group of Dutch medical researchers are igniting a firestorm by calling for an investigation of the deaths caused by vaccine mandates and lockdowns imposed on the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. What’s wrong with that? Everything, if you’re part of

“This is the question: Are we working for a culture of life or for a culture of death?” That is how Pope Francis characterized the central issue at a summit meeting held last month at the Vatican. This summit was not