Thinking of joining Russia? Well, Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, and a Vladimir Putin crony, has an offer he thinks people can’t refuse. Join Russia, get nukes. Lukashenko made the proposal during an interview with a Russian propagandist named Pavel Zarubin. The comments aired on Russian state media and came just a few days…

Texas has a Texas-sized fentanyl problem. In 2021 alone, nearly 71,000 Americans lost their lives from synthetic opioid overdoses. A substantial portion of this lethal supply infiltrates the U.S. via the Texas-Mexico border. While some Republicans advocate for military-style intervention against Mexico to curtail the inflow, Straight Arrow News contributor Ruben Navarrette says this oversimplifies…

225 missing children were found by the U.S. Marshals Service in a 10-month sting that spanned the nation. During the operation, officials recovered 169 children and safely located 56. The children were either runaways or had been abducted. The youngest child found was only 6 months old.  The agency said the children were challenging recovery…

Montana is the first state to ban the use of TikTok. The state cited fears that the Chinese-owned company is stealing the private data of its U.S. users. “The Chinese Communist Party using TikTok to spy on Americans, violate their privacy, and collect their personal, private, and sensitive information is well-documented,” Montana’s Gov. Greg Gianforte,…

The rollout of commercial AI tools in recent months has shown that the technology can make mistakes. It can hallucinate, show bias and discrimination and it can be misused by humans. These fears have sent governments scrambling to form regulation about a technology that many don’t fully understand yet. The European Union is already prepared…

Is the U.S. at risk of losing its global currency status? Given the Russian sanctions, tension with China, and most pressing, a looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling, the question is particularly relevant these days. Straight Arrow News contributor Peter Zeihan outlines the key characteristics that define a global currency, and argues most other…

Ford Motor Company announced it will be partnering with Tesla to provide its electric vehicle customers with access to Tesla’s extensive charging network in the U.S. and Canada. Ford CEO Jim Farley and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the agreement Thursday, May 25, during a “Twitter Spaces” audio chat. “We think this is a huge…