After severely depleting fish stocks in its own coastal waters in the late 1990s and early 2000s, China has effectively exported its fishing crisis to the rest of the world. Today, its distant-water fishing fleet — the largest on Earth — is ravaging marine ecosystems thousands of miles from Chinese …

New York politics was jolted this week after Democratic Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani announced that Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who has defended individuals linked to Al-Qaeda, will serve as his Chief Counsel. The appointment has triggered swift backlash, particularly because Kassem previously represented detainees accused of ties to the terrorist network …

For decades, Democratic healthcare reforms have followed a familiar trajectory: expand government involvement, subsidize insurers, and inch closer to healthcare-for-all. Republicans argue that trajectory has produced higher costs, less transparency, and fewer choices—and now say they finally have a counteroffensive rooted in consumer control rather than centralized planning. At the …

Five years after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, House Democrats are once again reaching for a familiar tool: a special committee hearing designed less to uncover new facts than to reassert control over a political narrative that has steadily weakened with time. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced that …

In a dramatic development tying federal spending to fraud enforcement, the Trump administration has halted some federal funds to Minnesota, citing widespread fraud involving multiple federal programs and ongoing investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security. This bold move underscores rising concerns about the …