I could fill a whole article with stories. The time a manager locked the front door at a sprint lest a tour bus swamp us a minute before closing. The time a young black co-worker startled everyone by refusing to “wait on [her] own kind.” The time I stole a sausage patty from a customer’s […]
Unless you are a major Sinophile or one of those wayward souls who monitor box office receipts like day traders monitor the Japanese futures market (ahem), you likely haven’t heard of the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Ne Zha 2, an animated partial retelling of the 16th-century Chinese folk novel Investiture of the Gods, […]
John Grisham’s The Rainmaker started life as a novel (1995), became a film by Francis Ford Coppola (1997), and is now a television series on USA and Peacock. Somewhere, creative teams are readying a rock opera and a Saturday morning cartoon. The new show is better described as an homage to the book and movie […]
NEW YORK, NY — Justice Amy Coney Barrett pushed back on partisan portrayals of the Supreme Court during a conversation in Manhattan on Thursday, saying it’s a “mistake” to view the justices as aligned with the political Left or Right. “Judges wear black robes because we are not partisan,” Barrett, one of three high court appointees of President […]
President Donald Trump denied reports that he is pressuring current New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Silwa to drop out of the city’s mayoral race in an effort to boost former Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s chances against Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani. “No, I don’t like to see a communist become mayor, I […]
A federal appeals court has blocked a lower court’s order to shutter the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center over environmental concerns, in a win for the Trump administration and Florida officials. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled 2-1 on Thursday in favor of halting a preliminary injunction imposed […]
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Justice won’t defend a group of Biden-era Department of Agriculture aid programs that were challenged by a Wisconsin farmer. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a June lawsuit on behalf of Chilton’s Adam Faust claiming the USDA had continued programs that discriminated against farmers based […]
(The Center Square) – Southern California students and faculty staged a walkout at their middle school in protest of the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s policy that allows transgender girls in bathrooms and locker rooms. During class on Tuesday, students, parents and faculty members at James L. Day Middle School walked out to protest against […]
Steve Bannon used his appearance at the National Conservatism Conference on Thursday to deliver a blunt set of recommendations for President Donald Trump, urging him to wield America’s economic leverage to reassert independence and counter adversaries. Bannon, who served as a top aide during Trump’s first term, returned to the spotlight with advice from the […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) blasted President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles on Thursday as costly “political theater,” leaving taxpayers with a $120 million bill. The money included $71 million for food and shelter, $37 million in payroll, more than $4 million in logistics supplies, $3.5 million in travel, and $1.5 […]
