Author: David Gregoire

College sports are drawing huge audiences and massive revenue, but that growth raises fresh questions about priorities, pay, and the future structure of the game. Television numbers suggest college athletics are thriving on the national stage. In 2025-26, college football posted the largest regular-season audience and delivered the decade’s biggest championship game viewership at 30 million. CBS and TNT reported that Monday’s basketball title game between Michigan and Connecticut attracted the kind of attention networks crave, reinforcing the idea that marquee matchups still move huge audiences. Those ratings translate into real cash for conferences, schools, and broadcasters. Media rights deals…

Sen. Ron Johnson’s approach to partisan nastiness is simple and unapologetic: meet opposition tactics head-on, and don’t cede the field to bad actors in the other party. Sen. Ron Johnson sees it as a kind of golden rule in dealing with nasty Dem politics: Do unto others before they do unto you. He frames that not as vindictiveness but as a strategy to prevent conservatives from being continually disadvantaged by partisan weaponization. For many Republicans, that blunt logic feels like common sense after years of perceived one-way attacks. That approach comes from a place of frustration with what conservatives describe…

Tax refunds this season rose 24% versus the four-year pre-Trump average, the administration said Thursday, and officials point to Republican tax changes as the explanation. The Treasury announced that tax refunds this season are up 24% compared with the four-year average of refunds before President Donald Trump took office, his administration said Thursday. That is a clear, measurable jump that officials are tying to policy changes enacted by Republicans in recent years. The increase has become a talking point for GOP leaders who argue the tax approach is helping ordinary Americans. Republicans credit their tax legislation with simplifying filings and…

Four 17-year-olds in Travis County face aggravated kidnapping charges after a February incident near Del Valle High School where a classmate was allegedly lured to a garage, bound, beaten, and threatened while one suspect recorded parts of the attack. Four teenagers — Jose Rojas-Alvarado, Oscar Armando Santiago-Martinez, Angel Lemus-Perez, and Carlos Roberto Oliva-Villeda — are charged with aggravated kidnapping with a deadly weapon in Travis County. Court records say Lemus-Perez also faces an organized criminal activity charge, and if convicted the group faces sentences ranging from five to 99 years in prison. According to arrest affidavits cited by local reporting,…

Like the national debt, politicos of all stripes treated the despotic regime in Iran as a problem for future generations to worry about – until President Donald Trump decided to make it an issue for now. For years the Tehran regime was largely a talking point for future headlines, a distant danger packaged into committee hearings and column inches. That changed when the United States under President Donald Trump began treating Iranian aggression as an immediate security challenge, not a problem for some later political calendar. The shift forced allies and adversaries alike to re-evaluate how to manage a volatile…

President Donald Trump issued a stark warning on Truth Social before entering negotiations, saying “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” and his words set a high-stakes tone for the talks that followed. President Donald Trump used blunt language to frame the talks as existential, and that tone was no accident. This is the kind of messaging he has leaned on for years to underline the perceived gravity of a deal. Supporters see it as clear-eyed deterrence while critics call it alarmist. His exact words,…

Michael Avenatti, the attorney known for representing Stormy Daniels in her unsuccessful defamation suit against President Donald Trump, has been released from federal prison after serving his sentence, and his return raises questions about accountability, public spectacle, and how the legal system treats high-profile figures. Michael Avenatti’s release is a reminder that high-profile legal fights don’t end with a courtroom verdict. He first rose to national attention as the lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels in her unsuccessful defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, a case that made him a fixture on cable news. That visibility shaped public perception…

A Biden-appointed judge stopped the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians in a February ruling that even invoked George Washington, and now Fox News reporter Bill Melugin says the suspect in a brutal killing is a Haitian national who received TPS from President Biden in 2022. The judge’s February decision blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, citing an argument that George Washington would have supported keeping the program. That ruling set a legal backdrop for ongoing controversy over TPS and executive authority. The matter has become more politically charged after recent…

President Trump paused a planned strike on Iran, setting a two-week suspension tied to Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and communicated the decision publicly before the April 7 8 p.m. ET deadline while citing conversations with Pakistani leaders. Just before the April 7 8 p.m. ET cutoff, the president announced a specific, time-limited pause that demands concrete action from Iran. This was not a vague promise or a wishful statement; it attached a clear condition: the Strait of Hormuz must be opened. The choice to make the suspension hinge on a tangible outcome signals a mix of restraint and…

President Trump agreed Tuesday to a two-week suspension of his threat to launch a sweeping bombing campaign targeting Iran’s bridges, power plants, and utilities if they didn’t agree to his That announcement paused an immediate escalation while keeping maximum pressure in place, and it reflects a deliberate mix of toughness and patience. The administration signaled that the United States remains ready to act if Iran continues its destabilizing behavior, but is also holding open a narrow window for diplomatic movement. Republicans see this as responsible brinkmanship: strong posture backed by a clear timeline. From a Republican perspective, the pause is…