Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) slammed university police officers for their handling of campus protests, specifically naming those at the University of Michigan for destroying a “peaceful” encampment. Tlaib, a vocal supporter of Palestinians amid the war in Gaza, spoke Thursday at a press conference in Washington, where she argued that police were being too harsh […]
Northwestern University President Michael Schill vowed on Thursday to recreate a school antisemitism task force after the previous one disbanded because seven of its members resigned in protest of the school‘s capitulation to pro-Palestinian protester demands. Schill, along with Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway and University of California, Los Angeles, Chancellor Gene Block, testified before […]
New polling shows President Joe Biden’s greatest weakness on Election Day could be former President Donald Trump’s path to victory as voters are frustrated with the high cost of living. A Swing State Project poll found 60% of voters disapprove of Biden’s economy and 73% of all voters rank the cost of living and inflation […]
Israel is “strengthening our effort against Rafah” following a new round of consultations with U.S. officials intended to bridge a rift over the military operation that opened in recent months. “This operation will go on and increase, more forces on the ground, more forces from the air, and we will reach our goals: to deal […]
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s endorsement of former President Donald Trump has made the work of the Haley Voters for Biden PAC “difficult,” according to a senior PAC adviser. Robert Schwartz, executive director of the Haley Voters Working Group, told Newsweek that it makes their efforts to get President Joe Biden elected more “difficult” […]
A maritime safety committee spent two decades warning of the possibility of a catastrophic “collapse” of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, adding that it was “not designed to withstand collisions from large vessels.” Warnings from the committee, which included experts from key government agencies, largely fell on deaf ears, a new report claimed Thursday. A ship could […]
Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby was sentenced to time served, three years of supervised release, and one year of home confinement for perjury and mortgage fraud. Mosby is best known for prosecuting six police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray in 2015. Her sentencing hearing began Thursday. She was convicted of lying […]
The Federal Communications Commission issued a $6 million fine against a political consultant who sent artificial intelligence-generated robocalls impersonating President Joe Biden’s voice to voters before New Hampshire’s presidential primary. The FCC fined Steven Kramer, 54, for sending AI-generated phone calls mimicking Biden’s voice to voters and using one of the president’s signature phrases: “What a […]
Texas Republicans are continuing to fight one another as Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Attorney General Ken Paxton look to move the party further to the right. Republican Speaker of the Texas House Dade Phelan has a deep political history of advocating and passing GOP-led bills, but his impeachment of Paxton (on accusations of bribery, […]
President Joe Biden held a joint press conference with Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday at the White House, where the two leaders pledged continued support for efforts to restore law and order in Haiti. Widespread violence carried out by gangs led the interim prime minister of Haiti to resign earlier this year, and Kenya […]
