Columbia University suspended 65 students on Friday after they overtook the Butler Library on Wednesday in an anti-Israel protest. “At this time, more than 65 Columbia students are on interim suspension pending further investigation,” a spokesperson said. In addition, 33 people, including some from affiliated institutions, have been barred from Columbia’s campus. Columbia University Apartheid […]
HOW TRUMP’S FIRST- AND SECOND-TERM 100-DAY MARKS COMPARE White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is holding a press briefing at 1:00 p.m. President Trump announced a trade deal with the U.K. Thursday morning, and put out a statement floating decreasing the tariffs on China Friday morning.
South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis is not being removed from his office, for now, despite uproar after a $1.8 billion accounting error. In January, an independent audit found that $1.6 billion of the $1.8 billion believed to have existed was the “result of incorrect journal entries,” while the remaining $200 million was “already included in the reported bank […]
The parents of Sam Lilley, the American Airlines pilot killed in the Potomac plane crash, praised the modernization of the nation’s air traffic control system under President Donald Trump. “I just really want to thank President Trump for his leadership in putting forth this program because we want to really make sure that no other […]
President Donald Trump is giving Congress conflicting messages on whether he wants a tax hike on high-income earners to help pay for his legislative agenda, posting on Truth Social Friday that Republicans “should probably not do it.” One day earlier, the president asked Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to consider a new tax bracket for those making […]
Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap’s plan to mail ballots to voters who did not request them in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District primary election has some fellow Republicans speaking out. Heap, a MAGA-aligned Republican who has previously spread conspiracies about mail-in ballots, announced this week that he would mail ballots to some 57,000 voters. Gov. Katie […]
Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called on the Department of Justice, which launched an investigation into rising egg prices in March, to investigate further whether major egg companies are engaging in anticompetitive practices to boost their profits. The senators sent a letter to the DOJ on Thursday, accusing egg companies of […]
The Trump administration says it is taking conscious action to block the flow of unregulated Chinese vapes into the country, something U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary described as a direct “attack” on the nation’s youth. Youth vaping rates exploded after electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) hit the market in the early […]
Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter died “peacefully at home in New Hampshire” on Thursday, the high court announced Friday. He was 85. Then-President George H.W. Bush appointed Souter to the court in 1990 after the long-serving Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. stepped down. Chief Justice John Roberts honored Souter in a statement. […]
A federal court ruled that the congressional district map drawn by the Alabama legislature was unconstitutional, ordering that it use the court-drawn map from the 2024 election. The Thursday ruling was the latest in a lengthy saga regarding Alabama’s redistricting cycle following the 2020 census. State lawmakers had passed a map that only included one […]
