A surge of Haitians is being deported, or let free. As President Joe Biden vacationed at Rehoboth Beach, the disaster at the U.S. southern border continued to metastasize. Anyone who has seen pictures of thousands of people crossing the Rio Grande en masse knows the administration has achieved complete failure. Anyone who has seen the overhead drone footage of more than 12,000 people gathered under one bridge in South Texas knows that massive, historic incompetence is being allowed to flourish. At the same time, it's clear that – despite all the Big Government Socialists in Biden's party who complain about America – we remain the one country people desperately try to get into.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Every once in a while, it's crucial to step back from the immediate mess and gossip and all the little things we tend to focus on each day to look at our world from a 30,000-foot view, to project what we should expect moving forward. As we enter a new decade, this seems like the perfect time to think about and prepare for what may come over the next 10 years both at home and abroad. To state the obvious, this is not an exact science.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given us a unique opportunity to perfectly understand the modern Democrats' belief in aristocratic superiority. The California Democrat's recent hypocrisy in going to her hair salon, which was supposed to be shut down due to San Francisco's stringent (and Pelosi-supported) COVID-19 rules, is just one more example of Democratic members of the political aristocracy believing they are superior to citizens (the opposite of the founding premise of America). The American people have long resented the hypocrisy and arrogance by which a political aristocracy believes one set of rules applies to the public and a totally different set of rules applies to its interests and its family members. We knew that this double standard deeply offended most Americans in 1994. That is why the first commitment of the Contract with America was to "require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress."

Former Trump campaign trade and jobs adviser Curtis Ellis on what this means for the trade deal. For many decades, Americans thought communist-ruled China would evolve into a free and open system similar to our own. In truth, Xi Jinping became the general secretary of the People's Republic of China and chairman of the Central Military Commission in November 2012. He became the president of the People's Republic of China in March 2013. During Xi's tenure, there has been a significant increase in censorship and mass surveillance, a significant deterioration in human rights, and the removal of term limits for the Chinese presidency.

The U.S Capitol is seen at sunrise. Imagine there is a group of people in Congress with more influence over whether laws are passed and rules are changed, than any official committee or subcommittee in the House and Senate. Now, imagine the members of this powerful group are not even members of Congress – in fact, they're not elected officials at all. Finally, imagine this group operates in secret, refuses to explain its decisions in detail to anyone, and has shown a consistent bias against free market principles. Unfortunately, you don't have to imagine this scenario.

I had the opportunity to glimpse a large part of the future this week. I think you will find it as amazing as I did. Dr. Kiron Skinner, a remarkable scholar, hosted me at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. According to the U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges" rankings, Carnegie Mellon has the nation's top graduate level artificial intelligence (AI) program and one of the top five undergraduate computer engineering programs. On Wednesday, the people at Carnegie Mellon showed me a few of the reasons they are held in such high regard.

The recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that effectively reinstated the Obama era's over-reaching joint employer regulation is a perfect example of how the left plays by its own set of rules. The joint employer rule made headlines in 2015 when the NLRB, under President Obama, rewrote the definition of what the government considered a "joint employer." Traditionally, a joint employer was an employer who shared direct control over an employee's workplace or employment with another employer. The idea was that since all employers shared and exercised similar and immediate control over employees, all should be responsible for making sure the employees had safe and reasonable working conditions. It also meant all joint employers were responsible for mistakes or bad behavior at their businesses.

I'm Paul Thornton, The Times' letters editor, and it is Saturday, July 16. How much more terrorism can France take? After yet another attack in that country -- this time in Nice, where a driver plowed a truck into a crowd of Bastille Day revelers -- at least 84 people are dead and authorities are busy gathering evidence to determine how it happened. But in the United States, some talking heads seem to possess answers that French investigators have yet to produce. Newt Gingrich, for example, called for government monitoring of mosques, a recommendation that earned him the scorn of The Times' editorial board: In the face of such a threat, people need leaders adept at analyzing data and thinking creatively about intelligence gathering and risk reduction.