Assata Shakur, a radical black militant fugitive who murdered a New Jersey state trooper, died of natural causes in Cuba at age 78. A statement from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Shakur died in Havana due to “health problems and advanced age.” She had become an icon of left-wing individuals for her actions […]
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian argued that President Donald Trump’s actions went against his image as a peacemaker, threatening to set the Middle East ablaze. In an interview with NBC News while in town to speak at the United Nations General Assembly, Pezeshkian delivered a defiant message while denouncing Trump. “We’re not afraid of war. We […]
The Supreme Court halted a lower court order that mandated the Trump administration to spend $4 billion in foreign aid, which it aimed to cut via a “pocket rescission.” The high court’s Friday ruling marks the latest victory for the Trump administration on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket. The unsigned order from the high court […]
The gunman who had suspected he had CTE when he shot several people in a Manhattan office building did in fact have the disease, the New York City medical examiner said Friday. The shooter, Shane Devon Tamura, 27, who played high school football, shot and killed himself after fatally shooting four people in July. The […]
House Democrats on the Oversight Committee published Friday partial records from a third tranche of files the committee received from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein earlier this week that contained bank, flight, and phone logs of the disgraced financier. The 8,544 documents, sent from the Epstein estate on Wednesday, are the third round of files […]
(The Center Square) – Privately run schools getting taxpayer money are coming to Miami through an 11th hour state budget law. Success Academy, backed by $50 million from Ken Griffin of the Citadel Enterprise Americas investment firm, is expanding in what Gov. Ron DeSantis calls “just the beginning.” Griffin is a billionaire hedge fund owner. […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI), Democratic Michigan Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks, and Republican Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall announced a state budget agreement Thursday after weeks of a stalemate in budget negotiations. Michigan is the last state without a budget approved before the next fiscal year. The state was staring down a statewide government shutdown if […]
(The Center Square) – A Wisconsin bill would prevent judges who are suspended for misconduct from being paid while they are on leave. Assembly Bill 380 came in response to Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, who has been suspended by the Wisconsin Supreme Court while facing federal charges. Dugan is charged with obstruction of […]
Justice Clarence Thomas defended the Supreme Court‘s recent rulings overturning long-standing precedents of the high court, as the justices appear poised to overturn a 90-year-old precedent in their upcoming term. Thomas argued, while speaking at Catholic University Law School, that the high court should not blindly follow precedents to guide current rulings if the established […]
(The Center Square) — Millions of New Yorkers will get “inflation reduction” checks this fall from the state as part of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s efforts to offset the impact of higher prices for food, gas and other necessities. Hochul announced Friday that the state will begin distributing $2 billion in direct payments to more than […]
