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…

Lawmakers in Congress are on a deadline to review a new bill, known as the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which aims to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a potential default. And Russia’s Defense Ministry is reporting that Ukraine executed a significant drone attack on Moscow, marking another incident in a recent escalation of these drone…

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…

With just days to go ahead of a potential government default, House Republicans are charting a path to ensure they can secure the 218 votes needed to raise the debt ceiling. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., can’t do that alone. He has to get input from the heads of “the five families,” who are leaders…

The one-year anniversary of the school shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, comes amid an ongoing investigation into the response by law enforcement during the incident. And Netflix is implementing a password-sharing crackdown in the United States that is set to cost users allowing others “outside their household” on their account an extra $7.99…

President Joe Biden is in talks with top congressional leaders to strike a deal regarding the nation’s debt ceiling and to avoid a potential default. And judge denied former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes’s bid to avoid prison and another ordered her to pay restitution in a high-profile blood-testing fraud case. These stories and more highlight…

The expiration of Title 42 brings forth new legal and political discourse over the new regulations that aim to take the pandemic-era immigration policy’s place. And a Marine veteran involved in a chokehold incident on a New York City subway, which led to the death of street performer Jordan Neely, is expected to turn himself…

The European Parliament has taken a significant step towards reining in the power of artificial intelligence and ChatGPT, as it voted Thursday, May 11, to approve pioneering legislation that would establish stringent regulations for these technologies. The new rules primarily target the use of facial recognition, biometric surveillance and other AI applications such as ChatGPT.…

President Biden and congressional leaders met at the White House to discuss a solution to the debt ceiling impasse. Time is running out, as America may not have the money it needs to pay its debts as early as June 1.  When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left the meeting, he told reporters they didn’t…