House Republicans’ plan for a massive conservative policy overhaul via the budget reconciliation process is expected to miss a key deadline this week, throwing a wrench in the GOP’s ambitious schedule for swiftly enacting President Donald Trump’s agenda. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., previously told reporters that House Republicans were aiming to advance their bill out of committee this week. But Republican hardliners on the House Budget Committee balked...

Unmanned sea drones are on the prowl to interdict drug smugglers in America’s waters as part of a new Navy operation.   The operation will test the Navy’s use of maritime drones, in its early stages, and apply lessons learned to missions all across the globe.  Dubbed Operation Southern Spear, the Navy’s 4th Fleet will use “a heterogeneous mix of Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) to support the detection...

West Virginia University became the latest college to shutter its Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) office, as a wave of state and federal leaders urged an end to what critics call a paradigm of reverse-discrimination. As of Monday, the Morgantown school’s DEI division webpage was still active, advertising an “interactive social justice experience” called the “Tunnel of Awareness” later this month. It also invited students to take an...