This year, I watched the Fairfax County budget process closely and even participated in public and private hearings. Then, on May 13, I watched the nine Democrat Supervisors of Fairfax County vote to approve yet another tax increase. Here’s what they taught me…
Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attend Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass in Vatican City on Sunday, the vice president’s team announced. Leo, who grew up in suburban Chicago, is the first American pope, marking a major milestone for U.S. Catholics. Mr. Vance is Catholic and met briefly with Pope Francis before his death last month…
President Trump on Thursday was given the Order of Zayed, the United Arab Emirates’ highest civilian honor. The award was bestowed for his “exceptional efforts to strengthen the longstanding ties of friendship and strategic partnership” between the U.S. and UAE…
As America approaches its 250th birthday in 2026, plans are underway across the country to celebrate this momentous milestone. Cities are launching educational initiatives, historic landmarks are preparing for record tourism from people all over the world, and national organizations are working on tributes to our founding ideals…
As President Trump continues his tour of the Persian Gulf states, the world’s attention has turned to a region that has long been a source of global turmoil and domestic unrest. The recent U.S. military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen are reminders of the large volume of blood and treasure invested by the U.S. and our allies in the Middle East in recent decades…
This National Police Week, WMAL will honor the sacrifices of law enforcement officers through a series of impactful interviews with the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF). From May 12 to May 17, 2025, WMAL’s Fallen Officers Tribute Week programming will highlight the stories of fallen heroes, the grief of their families, and the…
The Trump administration is undoing its predecessors’ artificial intelligence policies, as governments’ plans to regulate artificial intelligence are on shaky ground across the West. The Commerce Department on Tuesday said it would formally revoke the Biden administration’s AI diffusion rule, a regulatory framework that would have imposed new controls…
President Trump kicked off his Middle East trip Tuesday by burnishing his reputation as a dealmaker and establishing a U.S. policy for the region built on economic and investment ties. The three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates is focused on bolstering economic ties. It included a Saudi economic summit with executives…
Earlier this year, as Fairfax County was facing a $300 million budget shortfall, its school board members added high-paying personal staff positions amounting in total to an additional $1.5 million. Fairfax County Times has reported that in a closed session, county school board members voted to offer their friends…
President Trump offered a stern warning to Iran on Tuesday, telling the Middle Eastern country it was “time to choose” how it wants to proceed in negotiations with the U.S. on its nuclear program. Mr. Trump vowed that Iran would “never have a nuclear weapon”…
The pope told the College of Cardinals that he selected the papal name Leo XIV “mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic encyclical, ‘Rerum Novarum,’ addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution”…
Sen. Jim Banks was uncharacteristically curt. The Indiana Republican was walking to the elevator last month when a fired federal employee caught up to him on Capitol Hill. The protester, a budget analyst who had received a pink slip from the Trump administration like thousands of other government employees, demanded an answer for the ongoing mass layoffs…
The White House on Monday released more details of the trade deal the United States had reached with China over the weekend. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the U.S. agreed to drop its 145% tariff rate on Chinese goods by 115 percentage points to 30%, while China agreed to lower its rate on U.S. goods by the same amount to 10%…
Pope Leo XIV offered his first Sunday blessing in the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, where he called for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and peace in Ukraine before addressing the Vatican’s financial woes. “I, too, address the world’s great powers by repeating the ever-present call ‘never again war,’” Leo told the estimated 100,000 worshippers in the square at the Vatican…
The Food and Drug Administration’s commissioner, Marty Makary, sent out a warning Thursday about tianeptine, also called “gas station heroin.” The substance, licensed in some countries as an antidepressant, isn’t listed under the Controlled Substances Act and isn’t approved by the FDA. as a medicine or for use in food…
