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May 9, 2025
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| GOP Can Cut Medicaid Costs Without Reducing Services by Ending Democratic 'Money-Laundering': Experts |
| by Ben Johnson |
| As talks over needed Medicaid reforms inside the Beltway stall, health care experts say Republicans can dramatically reduce Medicaid costs without affecting services by cracking down on a form of "money laundering" that enriches politicians in Democrat-controlled states at the cost of the truly needy. |
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| GOP's House Divided over Defunding Planned Parenthood |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Pro-life forces in Congress have a once-in-a-decade opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood, but the road ahead is far from easy. Before scaling an avalanche of media disapproval, then hurdling a potentially adverse ruling by the Senate parliamentarian, pro-lifers must first navigate the measure between the forbidding cliffs that are constraining the GOP's historically narrow House majority. House moderates are making that last task extremely difficult. |
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| Who Is Pope Leo XIV? |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Catholics around the globe have been eagerly awaiting white smoke to emerge from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel - and on Thursday, it finally did. The words "Habemus papam" ("We have a pope" in Latin) echoed around St. Peter's Square and, moments later, the new head of the Catholic Church emerged. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, the first American pope, took the papal name Leo XIV. |
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| Colorado Trans Bill Called a 'Legal Requirement to Lie' |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) recently signed a bill forcing taxpayers to fund abortion. Now, a bill that classifies the refusal to use a transgender-identifying person's "preferred name" as discrimination is heading to his desk for signature. |
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| American Public Backs Trump's Crackdown on Crime |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Alcatraz Island, a rocky outcrop in the San Francisco Bay, has a storied history as one of America's most infamous penitentiaries. However, it closed in 1963 and transformed into a tourist hotspot, attracting millions yearly. Now, as part of his crackdown on crime, President Donald Trump is pushing to revive its original purpose as a high-security prison, aligning with his aggressive vision to restore "law and order" to America. |
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| The Trump Administration and Great American Rescue Ops |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Nothing says "America has your back" to allies abroad than daring rescue operations carried out on foreign soil. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the "successful rescue" of five Venezuelan dissidents in a "precise operation" of a coyly unspecified nature. The U.S. rescued the dissidents in a military operation, anonymous sources told the Argentinian paper Infobae. |
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| Alabama AG Celebrates Win in Protecting Minors from Gender Transition Procedures |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| In a stunning turn, left-wing activists officially ended their three-year legal war against an Alabama law shielding kids from gender transition procedures. Securing the state's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act marks a major victory for child protection advocates. Yet, the sudden retreat raises a big question: Why did the challengers back down? |
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| Trump Moves to Streamline Pharmaceutical Regulations in Ongoing Bid to Reshore American Manufacturing |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| President Donald Trump's tariff agenda has been the subject of much debate over the past several weeks, following his "Liberation Day" announcement, but as the president sets his sights on reshoring pharmaceutical manufacturing, a number of small and mid-size American manufacturers have reported that tariffs are already on their way to revitalizing the American economy. |
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