Vice President J.D. Vance’s new memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, is not just another book tour. It’s a public reckoning with faith from a man who sits in the second-highest office in the land. Released this summer, the memoir has prompted interviews, cultural pushback, and predictable political finger-pointing. For conservatives who care More

Connecticut’s Attorney General has quietly put out a request for outside law firms to help the state sue gun makers — and he’s asking those firms to prove how well they score on the diversity checklist before he’ll even consider them. The RFP is a clear new move to marshal pro bono legal muscle for More

The new paper in Geophysical Research Letters by Roldán‑Gómez and colleagues has jolted the climate conversation. The study argues that Europe’s recent run of hotter, longer summers is tied not just to greenhouse gases but also to a sharp drop in sulfate aerosols over the continent since about 1980. In plain terms: cleaning the air More

The new CBS News investigation lands like a bucket of cold water on California’s high‑speed rail fairy tale. Records show the California High‑Speed Rail Authority repeatedly missed federally required train procurement deadlines. Those missed deadlines were a key reason the U.S. Department of Transportation pulled roughly $4 billion in grant commitments — money taxpayers thought More

We’re told there’s a “bombshell” on China and Iran — and it’s the kind of story that should make every American sit up. Media outlets and U.S. intelligence sources say Beijing either is preparing to or already has shipped critical military gear and chipmaking technology to Tehran, and Washington has answered with public warnings and More

The newest twist in the Fauci saga smells like the kind of political theater that finally might turn into actual legal teeth. Attorney General Liz Murrill of Louisiana signaled on social media that her office will “join Alabama & Florida” in looking into Dr. Anthony Fauci after his Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee More