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President Joe Biden will end his re-election campaign, he announced Sunday, dropping out of the race amid Democrats' deepening conviction that the 81-year-old could not win a second term and would sink the party's fortunes in November. Democrats have been calling for Biden to step aside since a politically disastrous debate performance against Republican Donald Trump on June 27 that raised immediate questions about the president's cognitive ability and fitness to serve...
Education leaders spent the pandemic telling students that showing up to school wasn’t necessary. Unfortunately, many of them took the lesson to heart. The New Yorker recently featured a long piece on chronic absenteeism. Students receive that designation when they miss 10% of school days, which in most places is about 18 days. Reporter Alec MacGillis tagged along with Shepria Johnson, who visits the homes of chronically absent students. She has firsthand insight into why so many students aren’t showing up: It’s much easie...
As expected, Donald Trump earned an easy victory in the Iowa Republican caucus on Monday, breaking records in the process. The result moves him closer to recapturing the GOP presidential nomination, although he still has significant work ahead of him. Trump took 51% of the vote, beating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by 30 points and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley by 32 points. His performance easily broke the previous record for margin of victory in Iowa during a contested caucus, set in 1988 when Bob Dole beat runner-up Pat...
President Joe Biden, his approval ratings underwater for most of the past two years, made his case for a second term on Tuesday. It’s doubtful he changed many minds. The 80-year-old Democrat droned on for 73 minutes during his State of the Union address, urging voters to let him “finish the job.” He insisted that all is well, that his economic policies have put the nation on a prosperous path. “Two years ago our economy was reeling,” Biden said. “As I stand here tonight, we have created a record 12 million new jobs — more...
The radical green agenda represents a testament to the power of wishful thinking over reality. Nowhere is that more true than in California, where bureaucrats have ordered that the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles be outlawed in just 12 years. “California is once again leading the way by establishing common-sense standards that will transition to sales of all zero-polluting cars and light-duty trucks in the state,” Kathy Harris of Natural Resources Defense Council said in August after state regulators issued their mag...
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- There are tens of thousands of bucking bronc and bull rides in a professional rodeo season. The 2022 saddle bronc championship wasn’t decided until the last one. When Saturday’s 10th and final round of the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas & Mack Center began, Sage Newman, Lefty Holman, Stetson Wright and Zeke Thurston were separated by $5,600 — which, over the long haul of the season, is akin to the change one finds between sofa cushions during a spring cleaning. Thurston won the gold buckle by ridin...
More than 20 years after 9/11, Americans are still taking their shoes off at airport checkpoints and remain prohibited from packing larger bottles in their luggage. Yet the folks at the Department of Homeland Security continue to be flummoxed about how to implement more stringent identification requirements for airline passengers. On Monday, the department announced it was again delaying enforcement of the Real ID Act, which Congress passed 17 years ago. The legislation imposed certain standards on states for issuing...
The best way for the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve its legitimacy is to ignore public opinion. This month, Chief Justice John Roberts made remarks defending the institution of the Supreme Court. It was his first public address since the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade. “Simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for criticizing the legitimacy of the court,” he said at an event in Colorado. He added, “You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is. And you don’t want publ...
