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Mike Johnson calls truce in GOP fight over FISA overhaul

House Speaker Mike Johnson has been pressuring the Intelligence and Judiciary committees to stop butting heads and quickly meld their competing bills to rewrite the government’s most powerful spy power, the Washington Times has learned. The speaker is forcing the rival GOP factions — Judiciary’s federal weaponization watchdogs and Intel’s national security hawks — to […]

Protesting farmers have France’s government in a bind

PARIS — Farmers have captured France’s attention by showering government offices with manure and besieging Paris with traffic-snarling barricades of tractors and hay bales. The farmers say their protests aren’t a moment too soon. Grievances have long been brewing in the European Union‘s leading agricultural power. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused painful economic […]

Gender Identity No Longer Allowed on Florida Driver’s Licenses

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has rescinded guidance allowing personnel to issue new licenses for people trying to change their gender from their biological sex, citing the importance of the “security, reliability and accuracy of government-issued credentials.” The department sent out a technical advisory on Jan. 26 stating a patron’s gender […]

Groups Work With Biden Administration to Push Prison Voting

A federal agency is working with left-of-center nonprofits to increase voting among prisoners and former prison inmates under an executive order from President Joe Biden designed to increase election turnout.  The Federal Bureau of Prisons has partnered with and regularly consults on voting issues with the League of Women Voters, the American Civil Liberties Union, […]

Arizona State University report finds identity politics dominating U.S. history classes

American history has become a gloomy narrative about race, gender and class struggles in introductory college courses, according to a commission report from Arizona State University. A yearlong study of universities’ introductory U.S. history syllabi found that “identity-focused terms” such as “White supremacy” dominated their content, according to the Jan. 19 report by the National Commission on […]