Good news from Scotland on Monday, as President Trump said he’s now giving Vladimir Putin only another 10-12 days to reach a cease-fire with Ukraine. “We just don’t see any progress being made,” Mr. Trump…

If financial conditions are restrictive, Wall Street sure hasn’t noticed. Stock indexes hit fresh records this week, and speculative meme stocks are back to mania levels. Meanwhile, smaller businesses in the non-financial economy are tightening…

If only the couple caught canoodling last week on the Jumbotron at the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, had simply done what everyone else does in those moments at the arena or the ballpark: Thrown…

Science and technology have made many hazards predictable in ways that were unthinkable 150 years ago. Tragedies, like the Central Texas flash flood, can be averted or minimized when knowledge is combined with appropriate investments…

President Donald Trump entered his second term talking about eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Then Texas’s Guadalupe River flooded, killing more than 130 Americans. Now, Trump’s team is scrambling to insist that its changes…

It’s often hard to know when President Trump is serious about something, or merely creating a distraction. But in case he really meant it this week when he told Republican lawmakers he may fire Federal…

When the private sector doesn’t provide an important service, the government often steps in. That is why the framers established the U.S. Postal Service; they believed no one else would deliver the mail to the…

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe this past week walked back paid the sick leave protections for workers that a large majority of voters wanted in the 2024 election. Last fall, the Kansas City Star Editorial Board…

The Israeli prime minister cited Mr. Trump’s efforts to end conflicts in the Middle East. But in truth he is grateful to the U.S. president for joining his war against Iran last month and for…

Unable to resist the political clickbait, President Donald Trump muscled Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier out of the limelight June 30, to celebrate the opening of a Florida first. It is…