Author: Robert Kinney

In the shadow of Mar-a-Lago, Democrats just delivered a message that will be difficult for Republicans to ignore. On Tuesday, Democrat Emily Gregory defeated Republican Jon Maples in a special election for Florida’s House District 87 — a Palm Beach-anchored seat that sits squarely in President Donald Trump’s political and literal backyard. The Associated Press called the race for Gregory, making her the surprise winner of a contest that Maples had been widely favored to take. The seat had been vacant since last August, when Republican state Rep. Mike Caruso resigned to become Palm Beach County clerk and comptroller. What…

Just before midnight on a Sunday, a routine arrival from Montreal turned catastrophic at one of the busiest airports in the United States. An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 regional jet, operated by Jazz Aviation, was on final approach to Runway 4 at New York’s LaGuardia Airport around 11:45 p.m. when it struck a Port Authority Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting vehicle head-on. The impact ripped the nose completely off the plane, killing both the captain and the first officer instantly. It was one of the deadliest runway collisions in recent American aviation history. Federal officials have begun piecing together how a…

A Utah jury has delivered its judgment: Kouri Richins murdered her husband. After three weeks of testimony spanning forensic toxicology, explosive text messages, and a housekeeper-turned-drug-witness, jurors found the 35-year-old Kamas, Utah mother of three guilty on every count filed against her — including aggravated murder — in the March 2022 fentanyl poisoning death of Eric Richins. The verdict arrived Sunday, March 16, 2026, closing a case that had gripped the country since it first emerged that the accused killer had written a children’s grief book about losing her husband. Richins now faces the very real prospect of spending the…

The 98th Academy Awards delivered a night packed with landmark moments — a record-shattering nomination run, a jaw-dropping tie, and an emotional Best Actor win — as the film industry gathered Sunday to honor its finest work of the year. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another took home the evening’s top prize, Best Picture, capping an acclaimed awards season run. Presenters Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor — co-stars of Moulin Rouge — reunited on stage to hand over the honor. In his acceptance speech, Anderson offered a candid moment of self-deprecation. “I really blew it when I won the…

The White House launched a forceful offensive Friday against CNN after the network reported that President Donald Trump’s national security team had failed to fully prepare for the possibility that Iran might shut down the Strait of Hormuz — one of the world’s most strategically vital waterways — in the wake of U.S. military strikes. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt didn’t mince words. Taking to X, she declared the CNN story “100% FAKE NEWS” and accused the outlet of building its report on anonymous sourcing with no factual foundation. CNN’s Thursday report alleged that Trump’s national security team “failed to fully…

A routine California State University board of trustees meeting on Tuesday transformed into something far more combustible — a raw, unfiltered confrontation between community members on opposing sides of one of the most contentious sports controversies in recent American history. Residents, alumni, students, and activists flooded the meeting after CSU and San Jose State University (SJSU) announced Friday they had filed a federal lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s conclusion that SJSU violated Title IX in its management of a transgender volleyball player over a three-year period from 2022 to 2024. What was supposed to be an orderly public…

The legal lifeline that shielded millions of Americans from ballooning student debt has been officially cut. On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit issued a final judgment terminating the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan — the centerpiece of former President Joe Biden’s student loan relief agenda — bringing years of courtroom uncertainty to a definitive close. The consequences are immediate and far-reaching. More than 7 million borrowers remain enrolled in the now-defunct program as of the fourth quarter, and they will need to find a new repayment path forward. Launched in 2023, the SAVE…

California is staring down a classroom crisis. Close to half of the state’s public school teachers intend to retire or exit the profession entirely within the next ten years — a trend that threatens to hollow out an already strained education system. According to a new survey by Education Week Research Center, an estimated 45% of California teachers say they plan to retire within the next decade. The range runs between 40% and 49%, Holly Kurtz, director of the EdWeek Research Center, told Fox News Digital. That figure dwarfs the national average. Across the United States, roughly 36% of teachers…

Kosovo is caught in a deepening political impasse. After parliament missed a critical deadline to elect a new president, President Vjosa Osmani took the dramatic step of dissolving the legislature and calling for snap elections — a move that has rattled an already fragile region and raised the specter of renewed instability in the Western Balkans. “It is very hard now to imagine what will happen next,” Osmani told reporters, underscoring the gravity of a crisis that has paralyzed governance for more than a year. Friday’s presidential election session collapsed before it even began. The assembly was 14 members short…

BEIRUT / KUWAIT CITY — The Middle East edged closer to a wider conflagration Saturday as the Israel Defense Forces announced a targeted strike on senior Iranian military commanders sheltering inside a Beirut hotel, while an unrelated drone attack set fuel depots ablaze at Kuwait International Airport. The twin developments signal a dangerous broadening of hostilities across a region already straining under the weight of months of escalating conflict. The Israel Defense Forces confirmed Saturday that it struck a hotel in Beirut in a precision operation aimed at senior officers from the Quds Force’s Lebanon Corps — a specialized unit…