From a distance, Margarita Island looks like a Caribbean escape. Palm-lined beaches, duty-free shops, and resort towns sell the image of a tropical playground just off Venezuela’s northeastern coast. But U.S. officials say the Venezuelan outpost has become something else entirely: Hezbollah’s most important base of operations in the Western Hemisphere, strengthened by Iran’s growing […]
As Republicans in his state’s legislature considered joining a Donald Trump-backed effort to redraw congressional maps in the GOP’s favor, Rep. Frank Mrvan kept quiet. The new lines would have doomed the low-key Democrat representing Indiana’s northwest corner, but only now — after Republicans in the state Senate roundly rejected the Trump push — is […]
It’s not just Minnesota. The past few weeks have made clear that fraudsters stole billions of dollars from states’ welfare programs, much of it from Medicaid. It also appears that Democratic politicians tolerated the heist for their own political benefit. Yet politicians in virtually every state have let waste, fraud and abuse spread like wildfire […]
The Department of Justice began releasing final documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Friday, with a massive trove of documents that predominantly shows photos and heavily redacted materials categorized into four different sections. The DOJ on Friday afternoon released four different data sets of thousands of photos, New York grand jury material and […]
A photo of former President Bill Clinton topless in a dimly lit hot tub with his arms folded behind his head was included in a massive trove of Jeffrey Epstein files released Friday by the Department of Justice (DOJ). In another photo, Clinton is seen wading in a pool next to Ghislaine Maxwell and a […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow would refrain from launching new attacks on other nations provided his country is treated ‘with respect.’ The Kremlin made the remarks during his annual televised press conference in Moscow as concerns persist among European nations that Russia poses a security threat, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. ‘Will there […]
On Friday, I debated cannabis legalization at AmericaFest 2025, the annual convention for Turning Point USA, the group led by Charlie Kirk until his assassination in September. Here’s my opening argument: My opponent this afternoon is Katherine Mangu-Ward, the editor-in-chief of Reason magazine and a staunch libertarian. Katherine’s pinned post on X calls for the […]
Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) rallied some 15% today after reporting top- and bottom-line growth for its fiscal Q1 that Morgan Stanley dubbed the “best in the history of the US semis industry” outside of Nvidia. For the current quarter, the memory-chip maker forecast adjusted earnings of $8.42 per share on $18.7 billion in revenue, well […]
FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ: FCEL) soared over 30% on Dec. 18 after the Danbury-headquartered firm posted better-than-expected financials for its fourth quarter. In Q4, the company’s backlog also grew to $1.19 billion, indicating solid demand for its technology heading into 2026. However, the underlying fundamentals still narrate a more complicated story. FCEL shares’ long-standing structural challenges […]
The venture capital arms of Nvidia and Google have backed Swedish startup Lovable in a $330 million Series B round that values the vibe coding platform at $6.6 billion. The investment triples Lovable’s valuation in just five months and comes as the Stockholm company hit $200 million in annual recurring revenue. The number marks a […]