Maine passes budget proposal with wealth tax and $300 rebate checks

Since 2024, prediction market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket have surged in popularity, drawing users, media partnerships, and scrutiny from both sides of the political spectrum.  Users can wager on real-world outcomes from politics to sports, blurring the line between financial instruments such as markets, which are federally regulated, and gambling, which is largely […]

The Pentagon has denied threatening the Vatican during a late January meeting with the Holy See’s then-envoy to the U.S., as Pope Leo XIV has warned against the growing use of military action in recent months.  The Pentagon’s policy office head Elbridge Colby met with Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the U.S., on Jan....

President Trump indicated Thursday that Iran was not living up to the ceasefire agreement reached between the two nations by not adequately opening up the Strait of Hormuz. In a Truth Social post, he wrote: “Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some would say, of allowing Oil to go through the Strait of...

High-stakes talks are set for Islamabad this weekend where U.S. and Iranian officials plan to meet to negotiate the terms of a tenuous ceasefire to end the war in Iran. The White House called the talks “ongoing” but any agreement remains extremely fragile as fighting continues across the Middle East. “As the White House has...