During an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump and DOGE czar Elon Musk seemed to contemplate the existence of what used to be called the [...]

Kash Patel was sworn in Friday afternoon as Donald Trump's FBI Director, delivering this statement after taking the oath of office: [...]

While the Russian and Ukrainian militaries have been clashing violently on the bloody battlefields of Eastern Europe, a parallel war has long been underway in the media sphere, where armies of information warriors have battled to shape the ways Western publics think about the conflict. [...]

This could be the opening Democrats need to re-engage Latinos who have been waiting for someone to stand up. [...]

Lots of ink has been spilled over the past three weeks regarding the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This isn't the first time a new administration has attempted to address what it saw as government bloat. Most recently, the Clinton administration tasked then-Vice President Al Gore with the job. Unlike the positive press received by the former vice president and his reinventing government initiative, the media has principally focused on the intentional ham-handedness of Elon Musk and his band of boy geniuses. [...]

Today on TAP: It's really all about blocking former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. [...]

Trade tariffs grab headlines but the less-visible fight around money matters deeply to the president [...]

The war that broke out on Oct. 7, 2023, has brought the Palestinian issue back to the forefront of the global, Middle Eastern, and Israeli agenda. The debate over how to address it - let alone resolve it - continues as it has for the past half-century, and in various forms - for more than a century. Why have all attempts at an agreement failed since the Oslo Accords, and what does this suggest about the prospects for resolving the conflict? In light of its frustrating persistence, the conflict continues to generate a range of opposing assessments and proposals regarding [...]

Trust in media starts in rural America with a full overhaul of the Fourth Estate [...]

Family and friends of released Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov clapped, burst into tears and popped bottles of champagne as they watched him walk free on Saturday after being handed over by Hamas in Gaza.Shem Tov was among six Israeli captives freed by Palestinian militants as part of the seventh hostage-prisoner swap to take place under the first phase of a fragile truce which took effect last month.Militants released four hostages seized in Hamas's unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack on Israel and two men who had been held captive for a decade. [...]

Palestinian militants freed six Israeli hostages on Saturday, with hundreds of Palestinian prisoners expected to be released in exchange under a fragile Gaza truce that is nearing the end of its first phase.The release of the last group of living hostages under the truce's first phase caps an emotional two days in Israel, where the remains of another hostage, Shiri Bibas, have been identified after the initial handover of a different body. [...]

Tehran appears to be keeping pressure on Israel mainly through its network of proxies, resorting to calculated restraint and deniability to avoid risks of a devastating full-scale war. [...]

Tehran appears to be keeping pressure on Israel mainly through its network of proxies, resorting to calculated restraint and deniability to avoid risks of a devastating full-scale war. [...]

On Thursday, a Russian national suspected of planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy was arrested by German authorities, and in a separate incident on Friday, a stabbing occurred at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. [...]

On Thursday, a Russian national suspected of planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy was arrested by German authorities, and in a separate incident on Friday, a stabbing occurred at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. [...]

Syria's tiny Jewish community and Syrian Jews abroad are trying to build bridges after Bashar al-Assad's ouster in the hope of reviving their ancient heritage before the community dies out. This week, a small number of Jews living in Damascus, along with others from abroad, held a group prayer for the first time in more than three decades, in the Faranj synagogue in Damascus's Old City."There were nine of us Jews (in Syria). Two died recently," community leader Bakhour Chamntoub told AFP in his home in the Old City's Jewish quarter. [...]

Preparations for Sunday’s funeral for Hassan Nasrallah are underway as massive crowds are expected to attend. [...]

Preparations for Sunday’s funeral for Hassan Nasrallah are underway as massive crowds are expected to attend. [...]

The daughter of murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013.In a Paris court on Thursday, Bethany Haines, 27, read out the last text message she would ever receive from her father, David Haines, before he was abducted by IS in north Syria aged 42.Sitting in the dock as she read were Frenchmen Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, and Abdelmalek Tanem, 35, on trial for holding four French journalists hostage for IS in Syria between 2013 and 2014. [...]

Alex Kirshner, Slate The Tesla CEO has trapped himself on a golden hamster wheel. [...]

Robert Natelson, Law & Liberty USAID grants may have cracked constitutional spending limits. [...]

Casey Carlisle, RealClearMarkets The business model that relies on governmental largesse functions only as long as the profligacy remains concealed, but [...]

Lydia DePillis, NYT With the Trump administration reversing support for low-carbon power, the business case for making wind, solar and electric vehicle parts gets weaker. [...]

Paul Bledsoe, Newsweek New EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin made headlines last week bragging that he could rescind billions in loans for clean energy. But as with many Trumpian threats, it turns [...]

Wayne Duggan, U.S. News & World Report These are some of the latest portfolio moves by the famed investor. [...]

Roben Farzad, BusinessWeek September is that cruelest month for the stock market. It's the only month that has dropped on average since the Roaring Twenties. Come Monday night, when Wall [...]

Carla Fried, CNNMoney Income-starved investors looking to amp up their portfolios have been turning to foreign bonds -- for obvious reasons. The 4.2% payout on the average foreign [...]

R. Ponnuru, Bloomberg While the Romney and Obama camps have made increasingly bitter accusations about each otherâ??s plans for Medicare, a bipartisan consensus on entitlements has emerged [...]

Doug Schoen, Forbes It's a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department's July jobs figures [...]

The international market for whisky (and whiskey) is often volatile, with governmental policy and shifting tastes leading to changes in who’s drinking what over time. The latest export data from the Scotch Whisky Association provides a fascinating look at the export market for Scotch, which — at least in 2024 — could accurately be described […] The post In 2024, Scotch Whisky Exports Were Up — But Their Value Was Down appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

You can certainly cook with an apple, but can you cook with an Apple? While we wouldn’t recommend adding the expensive smartphone to your next stew or cake, the electronics company is making a foray into the home cooking market with a new feature for its Apple News+ subscribers: access to an array of recipes. […] The post Apple Is Getting Into the Recipe Business appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The Mercedes-Benz G-Class has been racking up accolades for its 2025 edition. Motor Trend‘s review hailed its engineering and performance as “essentially off the charts,” while Top Gear argued that “the G-Class has real strength in depth.” The size and price of the line have been recurring motifs in discussion of it, and now it […] The post Mercedes Expanding G-Class With Smaller G-Wagen appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Each week, our inbox runneth over with news of gear, apparel and tech releases from around the world. In this feature, we’ll parse through the best of it. Today: A new gel sunscreen from beloved sun safety brand Vacation, new Saucony sneaks and a long awaited Moncler collab with FRGMT. We've put in the work […] The post Products of the Week: Whiskey, Sneakers and Sunscreen appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

People like yourself might not have all day to online shop…which is why we’re committed to doing it for you every week. No need to thank us or anything. From a Nike barn coat to a smart wearable, these are the best deals we’ve found on the internet this week. The Best Deals on the […] The post From Barn Coats to Fitbits: The 12 Best Deals on the Internet This Week appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The James Bond franchise is nothing short of a miracle. It’s a miracle that every single actor to officially play Bond is legendary in his own way (including Dalton and especially Brosnan). It’s a miracle that each film has been able to adapt to the times while still being entirely faithful to the character. I […] The post We Already Know What Amazon Could Do With James Bond. It’s Not Pretty. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

With dozens, if not hundreds of new collections appearing every single week from our favorite brands, we’ve done the hard work and rounded up the need-to-know style, watch and grooming drops that you simply can’t afford to miss. No need to thank us or anything. This week: Supreme drops a positive fire lookbook for Spring/Summer […] The post All the Style Drops You Should Care About This Week appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

In plane geometry, two parallel lines can never cross, but earlier this month I rather poetically merged the bone line of a six-figure Lamborghini Urus SE with the finish line of an ice track while sliding across completely sideways. I nearly busted a gut laughing at myself. But something in the tone of my instructor’s […] The post White Knuckles and Ice-Cold Supercars: My Day Driving Lamborghinis on a Frozen Lake appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

If you visit one of the Little Italy neighborhoods scattered across North America, chances are you’ll be exploring an enclave that’s at least 100 years old. There, you’ll typically find a mix of Italian restaurants and bakeries, turn-of-the-20th-century Roman Catholic churches, and parks and streets named after notable Italian Americans. Most have at least one […] The post The Best Little Italy Neighborhoods in North America appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

What we’re drinking: Three expressions from Alto Canto, a just-launched tequila brand Where it’s from: Alto Canto (“high song”) is crafted at 9,000 feet above sea level in the Sierra del Tigre mountains in the Jalisco highlands, the highest altitude of any tequila made in Mexico. Why we’re drinking this: I was looking for a […] The post Review: Higher Elevation, Better Tequila? Alto Canto Thinks So. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Mag Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German submarine and the Royal Navy Q-ship that sank it in February 1917 [...]

Neely Tucker, The Library of Congress Pennsylvania's Big Pat Bane, a cheerful man standing some 6 feet 9 inches, was almost certainly the tallest soldier in the Civil War. His feet came out [...]

Staff, Historytoday From a cult's rogue personalities to its foundational ideologies, how have fringe beliefs guided the direction of the American dream? [...]

Matt Fitzpatrick, The Conversation A decision to negotiate over the heads of the Ukrainians would reveal just how Trump sees Ukraine and Europe. [...]

Paul D. Thacker, RCInvestigations By Paul D. Thacker, RealClearInvestigationsFebruary 19, 2025 President Trump often trumpets American exceptionalism, but an executive order scheduled to [...]

Miguel A. Faria, RealClearHistory It is common to see articles and editorials urging us to do away with Electoral College; the writers yearn to "move forward" and adopt a "one person, one [...]

Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author's cut of an essay entitled "Odysseus Lost" that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024. The Chronicles version, which benefited f [...]

Sean Durns, Washington Examiner "Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power," the American intellectual Henry Adams wrote in 1862, "and the human race commit suicide, [...]

Reuters History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on [...]

Christine Chung, New York Times A submersible craft carrying five people in the area of the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic has been missing since Sunday, setting off a search and [...]

In September, epidemiologists out to scare people about homeopathic - "detectable" - levels of pesticides published a paper hoping to get journalists promoting fear and doubt about agriculture.Being the opposition to science in academia is a good place to be. They can get a publication to check off that annual box and nothing much will change. They won't get any blame.read more [...]

The  Kilometre Cubic Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) collaboration has reported detection of  a neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV (220 million billion electron volts) by its ARCA detector. The event, KM3-230213A, is the first evidence that neutrinos of such high energies are produced in the Universe and the most energetic neutrino ever observed. read more [...]

Ignore epidemiology claims that chocolate is healthy. It is not, claiming it is requires the same suspect correlation that "suggests" weedkillers causes human cancer and acupuncture prevents COVID-19. No science involved. Mars, Incorporated was funding the Chair in Nutrition at UC Davis when a lot of those claims came out and while it's not the case that academics are creating results-for-hire any more than industry scientists are, it is the case that government and companies only fund people whose work they like.read more [...]

In 2015, nearly every country signed The Paris agreement and agreed to keep global warming to below 2 degrees higher than before humans began emitting industrial levels of CO2 emissions.Yet very little has changed, because every country gets to arbitrarily decide for itself how it can meet its goal, or if it should have a goal at all.(1) That's how useless the Paris Agreement is.read more [...]

So many people want to move to the United States of America because virtually anyone who arrives legally can start a business with little problem and get rich.A lot of people born in the US would rather be born in a place where they can never get rich but more things are free for the poor. They're not wrong, normal human psychological variation means most people would rather not compete if given a choice. That is seen all across the animal kingdom.read more [...]

A new analysis claims that crown volume of stream-side shrubs is a key metric for evaluating trophic cascade strength and they attribute the 1,500% increase in a small number of sites to increased numbers of wolves.The data they used were collected from 20 streams during the years 2001 to 2020 and they note the aboveground biomass increase is due to a lot fewer elk, which was caused by a lot more wolves. "Balance of nature" wins.read more [...]

A new survey created by marketing insights company Tastewise finds that half are not going to drink alcohol on Valentine's Day - for health reasons.They're not wrong. During the waning days of the Biden administration, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy did something for science and public health that was grounded in science - he issued a report encouraging people to get off alcohol. read more [...]

In 2023, I bit the bullet by signing a book contract with Springer to work on a difficult compilation of scientific misconduct and problematic science publishing practice. It was planned as an edited book that required expert contributors of the field to write chapters on the various topics. read more [...]

Over 30 years after Democrats achieved their generational goal of ending nuclear energy in America, science is finally back.Texas A&M University Chancellor John Sharp announced they have provided land nearby to build four nuclear small modular reactors. “Plain and simple: the United States needs more power. And nowhere in the country, other than Texas, is anyone willing to step up and build the power plants we need."Credit: Texas A&M Universityread more [...]

The United Kingdom has delays even longer than the United States for routine care but with a fraction of the population, their high costs are a lot more punitive to taxpayers.Government is always looking for ways to keep costs contained but NHS employees need raises also, so it is a challenge. Needing fewer new employees will help.read more [...]