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Trump’s mass firing of diplomats dangerous

President Trump, would-be peacemaker on a global scale, has apparently decided he can fulfill that role with a decimated diplomatic corps that by mid-January will see more than half of the U.S. embassies around the world lacking an ambassador. Nearly 30 ambassadors were told just before Christmas to pack up and leave their postings this month, adding to the 79 ambassadorial vacancies already on the books, according to the Ambassador Tracker maintained by the American Foreign Service Association, the union that represents career diplomats. The United States at full complement has some ...

AAA suggests four 2026 safe driving resolutions

AAA Michigan has offered some grim arguments for making safer motor vehicle practices part of your New Year's resolutions for 2026. Preventable crashes claim lives and devastate families every day, AAA states in a news release. "These tragedies are not accidents; they are the result of choices made behind the wheel," AAA warns. "That’s why AAA urges drivers to make safety their top priority in 2026." In 2024, more than 39,000 people were killed in U.S. traffic crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. On average, someone is killed in a car crash every ...

Deregulation of broadband deployment saving billions

Did economists underestimate the damage of the Biden regulatory barrage? One reason the U.S. economy is outperforming expectations may be that the Trump Administration’s deregulation is offsetting tariff harm. Consider how it has uncorked broadband investment and saved taxpayers billions by slashing the Biden team’s red tape. Congress appropriated $42 billion in the 2021 infrastructure bill for states to expand broadband to “unserved” and rural communities. The spending was unnecessary, since satellite services like SpaceX’s Starlink and 5G fixed wireless services were rapidly ...