Police arrested and removed nearly a dozen union workers protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie during a San Francisco City Hall meeting on Tuesday, showing the new mayor’s rocky relationship with Big Labor. More than 100 workers in attendance were upset with Lurie’s plan to eliminate around 100 jobs and hundreds of vacant positions as part of his […]
Senate Republicans’ first public hearing into former President Joe Biden’s health on Wednesday laid the groundwork for a broader investigation into whether the White House concealed his condition and unlawfully authorized executive actions in his name. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, titled “Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution,” […]
The Department of Justice charged a Texas man on Wednesday with purchasing and transporting explosives with the intent to attack police officers in Los Angeles during the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots last week. Grzegorz Vandenberg, 48, allegedly asked store employees in New Mexico to assist him in selecting fireworks that could be used as […]
E. Jean Carroll, the former Elle magazine columnist who won an $83.3 million defamation judgment against President Donald Trump, says she plans to use the money to infuriate him, specifically by donating it to causes he opposes, such as reproductive rights. In an appearance Tuesday on former MSNBC host Katie Phang’s YouTube show, Carroll outlined […]
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that “we’re long beyond ceasefire” in the Israel-Iran war, responding to a question regarding his dispute with French President Emmanuel Macron over a deal in the Middle East conflict. Before conflict broke out between Israel and Iran, Trump had been trying to broker a nuclear deal with the latter […]
A fiery debate broke out on ABC’s The View Wednesday morning after moderator Whoopi Goldberg pushed back on comparisons between human rights conditions in Iran and the United States, arguing that black Americans still face hardships equal to those living under the Iranian regime. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin highlighted Iran’s brutal treatment of marginalized groups. […]
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger expressed concern that nefarious actors are impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the city to “take advantage of this population.” On Tuesday, Barger revealed that her staffer’s godson was out driving when he was pulled over by two men in an unmarked car who told him he had […]
Iranian leaders want the world to believe they are willing and capable of unleashing historic levels of violence in response to ongoing Israeli airstrikes, but their actions are not living up to their rhetoric. Perhaps the most obvious lack of follow-through occurred Tuesday, when Iranian state media warned that, overnight, “a great surprise will occur, […]
The Treasury Department on Wednesday sanctioned five key leaders of the Mexican crime syndicate Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, which is responsible for trafficking fentanyl and other illicit drugs into the United States. The new sanctions freeze any assets owned by the cartel and prohibit U.S. citizens from doing business with the group. “CJNG’s reign […]
The latest invasive bug imported from China has already spread to 17 eastern states and appears likely to reach the West Coast as it searches for wine vines and other plants and trees to suck dry and destroy. Following the path cut by the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug that arrived from China in 1998, the […]
