The Maui wildfires have now become some of the deadliest in United States history, and cameras captured a plane crashing during an air show. These stories and more highlight The Rundown for Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Maui wildfires deadliest in U.S. in more than a century The wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui are…

In an effort to combat climate change, the U.S. government has launched an initiative aimed at catalyzing the burgeoning carbon removal industry. The Energy Department has recently unveiled a 1.2 billion plan that will attempt to establish a market for removing carbon dioxide already present in the atmosphere, with an initial focus on constructing the…

Russell Moore, the editor-in-chief of Christianity Today magazine and an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, is raising concerns that evangelical Christianity is shifting too far to the Right. This is noteworthy because a majority of evangelicals support Trump as their preferred choice for the next president. Straight Arrow News contributor Rashad Richey explains why Moore…

On July 31, 2022, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed during a U.S.-led airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda has yet to acknowledge Zawahiri’s death nor has it publicly declared a new leader to take his place. Straight Arrow News contributor Katherine Zimmerman analyzes recent shifts in leadership within al-Qaeda and explains the significance of not…

Core inflation is cooling. Job growth is up, business investment is rising. There’s good economic news out there but the question is: Who gets the credit? President Biden is pointing to “Bidenomics” — his strategy of growing the economy “from the middle out and bottom up,” a departure from President Reagan’s “trickle-down” economics. Republicans like…