FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s official: Lauderdale-by-the-Sea has signed off on a plan to honor President Donald Trump by putting his name on the easternmost stretch of Commercial Boulevard. It’s a proposal met with vocal opposition, red-capped enthusiasm and more than one declaration that surely local officials have higher priorities.

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The Continental Army’s winter encampment at Valley Forge, between December 1777 and June 1778, is the stuff of legend. Chased out of Philadelphia by the British Army, George Washington and over 12,000 American troops retreated to Valley Forge, where they spent six long months harried by hunger, disease and the bitter cold.

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Despite the scale of its military assault on Iran, the Trump administration’s reasons for entering into war have been inconsistent and vague, from regime change to the destruction of nuclear weapons, preempting military action by Israel, or the more chilling decree of following “God’s divine plan.”

Politicians, pundits and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrat Shawn Harris and Clayton Fuller, a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump, were the top two finishers in Tuesday’s nonpartisan special election to fill GOP former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat. The pair will face each other in an April 7 runoff.

Harris, a former Army brigadier general and cattle farmer, ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis’ office has told lawmakers that he will delay his decision on whether to commute Tina Peters’ prison sentence until after the Colorado Court of Appeals issues a ruling in her case.

Polis’ staff members privately told some lawmakers late last week that the governor would wait, and House lawmakers were told of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As most Republicans avoided questions last month about allegations Rep. Tony Gonzales had an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide, three GOP women made their demands clear: their colleague has to go.

Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Anna Paulina Luna of Florida each used their social ...Read more

Anthropic PBC told a judge it could lose as much as billions of dollars in revenue this year and urged quick action on its request to block the Trump administration’s declaration of the company as a supply-chain risk after a blowup with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety issues.

A lawyer for the startup made a case for urgency ...Read more

ATLANTA — In one of the most conservative congressional districts in the U.S., a special election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has produced an unusual runoff: a Democrat facing a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump.

And as votes continue to be counted, the Democrat is ahead.

Democrat Shawn Harris, a retired Army ...Read more

You complain that Publix is expensive?

Try food shopping on the West Coast at a trendy grocery store with a weirdly unpronounceable name, Erewhon (Air-a-One), an anagram of “nowhere.” It was reportedly inspired by Samuel Butler’s 1872 dystopian novel of the same name.

Safe to say, BOGOs don’t exist at this high-end supermarket, where a...Read more

WASHINGTON — Escalating his feud with Rep. Thomas Massie, President Donald Trump on Wednesday will hit the pause button on overseeing the Iran war with a swing through the rebellious Kentuckian’s district amid Massie’s primary battle.

Trump ostensibly will be in Ohio and the neighboring Bluegrass State to push his administration’s ...Read more

It’s clear that regime change is among the biggest objectives of the U.S. war in Iran.

“I have to be involved in the appointment” of Iran’s next leader, President Donald Trump said on March 5, 2026.

Trump has also said he might put U.S. boots on the ground to get the job done.

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A hard-line Iranian security official personally threatened President Donald Trump on Tuesday as the war raged on and the two nations traded charges over the Tehran’s chokehold on oil exports out of the Persian Gulf.

Ali Larijani, a top member of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, suggested Tehran might target Trump if the U.S. makes...Read more

It has been said that trust is like glass: Once it is shattered, nothing will ever be the same. In the case of the enduring hostility between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States over the past 47 years, even this metaphor may be an understatement.

The tone of the relationship is indicative of this fact.

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The war that the U.S. and Israeli governments launched against Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, is unprecedented in its scope across the Middle East. With the Arab Gulf states under Iranian attack, and Israel targeting Iran’s militia ally Hezbollah, even experts on the Middle East like me cannot predict the war’s course and especially its likely ...Read more

By all measures, the ability to see what the government is up to in the United States has plummeted to new depths since the beginning of the second Trump administration.

For National Sunshine Week in 2025, I wrote about secrecy creep, the adoption of federal secrecy protections implemented by state and local authorities. In Florida ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats with potential presidential aspirations have unveiled a slew of tax breaks in recent days that emphasize the party’s focus on affordability in hopes of taking back the White House.

The latest pitch, unveiled Monday from New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, would more than double the standard deduction for married ...Read more

Officials in Bruce Springsteen’s hometown are considering honoring President Donald Trump by naming a New Jersey grade school after him.

Colts Neck Board of Education board member Robert Scales said he hopes to form a committee to rename Conover Road Primary School, according to News 12. The idea was proposed during a Wednesday meeting.

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President Donald Trump said the U.S. and Israel are making significant progress in the war on Iran and could end the conflict “very soon,” cooling a surge in oil prices.

Trump said the operation that began Feb. 28 is ahead of schedule, while cautioning that fighting would still not be over this week. The two allies continued to bomb Iran ...Read more