Italy bans overseas surrogacy for all citizens amid declining birthrate: ‘A child is always a gift’

There was some ballyhooing on Sunday that bipartisan congressional leaders managed to avert a potential, partial government shutdown on January 20th. First of all, fat chance. This was a framework agreement. A number. Not a bill. Second of all, have you met Congress lately? Third, there may not be enough time to avoid a shutdown […]

Vice President Kamala Harris had a clear idea of where she wanted a family to stand as she talked to them during a door-knocking photo op in Pennsylvania.  Harris joined canvassers in Reading, Pennsylvania, as cameras captured the Democratic presidential nominee walking up to the porch where one family was standing outside, saying “Hi guys… […]

The U.S. could be at war right now. We don’t know for sure, because Congress hasn’t “declared war.” Organizations linked to Iran killed three U.S. service members in Jordan over the weekend. The U.S. fired strikes in Iraq on “facilities used by” the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia groups and other Iran-affiliated groups last week. The […]