Germany is in the middle of a summer heat push and—surprise—officials have reissued familiar heat‑safety tips. The fuss that followed, though, turned routine guidance into a headline about Germans being told to “suffer in the dark” and to ban air conditioning. That’s not what happened. What did happen was a coordinated wave of heat‑risk messaging More

Senator Ted Cruz this week made a simple but sharp point on his podcast: the U.S.–China race for artificial intelligence is not only a fight over money and jobs. It is a fight over values. Cruz argues that if America wins, AI will reflect free markets and free speech. If China wins, AI will carry More

This week, the Pennsylvania House pushed forward a major rewrite of the state’s school‑choice tax‑credit programs. House Democrats advanced HB 2632, a package that would replace the long‑running EITC and OSTC scholarships with a new “Education Options Tax Credit” framework and add layers of reporting and oversight. Parents, schools, and donors are already on edge More

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte didn’t come across like a man looking to smooth feathers. He told viewers he’ll meet President Trump, and bluntly suggested the president “has done what he needed to do” in Iran — a short sentence that tells you more about the alliance’s priorities than a hundred diplomatic press releases. Allies, More

The Department of Homeland Security announced this week that Homeland Security Investigations arrested a Venezuelan national and former Illinois teacher, Giovanna Mercedes Moreno Occhipinti, after linking her to a deadly December 2024 house‑party shooting tied to the Tren de Aragua gang. The federal action follows local decisions not to prosecute and highlights a clash between More