A seventh-grader from Tampa, Florida, is the winner of the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee championship. The competition on Thursday night was a nail-biter, initially ending in a tie. However, Bruhat Soma, 12, emerged victorious by spelling 29 words correctly in 90 seconds in a “spell-off.” That was nine more words than the second-place winner, […]
Protectionists have a magic word, a word of talismanic power. The word is “China.” So potent is its spell that it shuts down any argument for free trade, however tangential the connection to the dreadful regime in Beijing (about which, for the avoidance of doubt, I am more hawkish than most). China makes politicians lose […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan lit up its tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, to welcome former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to the island during the summer of 2022 despite speculation that Taiwanese officials asked her not to come. The United States and China have since reestablished direct communication between the respective militaries, severed because of Pelosi’s […]
For years, purist fans of traditional New Orleans jazz have worried their favorite music is a dying art form. Oh, sure, something like trad jazz, loud and frenetic with a side helping of street funk, might be played for many more years in tourist trap clubs. But the real thing, the small-group ensembles with syncopated […]
The North Dakota Board of Higher Education is looking to rein in professor tenure, particularly at its community colleges, according to a draft report. The board’s Tenure/Post-Tenure Ad Hoc Committee has a draft report that could bring a massive decrease in tenured and tenure-track faculty at the state’s five community colleges, as well as pared-back […]
San Francisco Mayor London Breed introduced a budget proposal on Thursday that makes good on a campaign promise to increase police staffing despite facing a nearly $800 million two-year budget deficit. Breed, who is facing a tough reelection in November, has pitched a $46.7 million increase to the police department’s budget, bringing it to an all-time […]
In late 1977, in the days before he suborned mass suicide in a Guyanese jungle, the Rev. Jim Jones tried to buoy the sagging spirits of his 900-plus homesick parishioners with a series of celebrity guest appearances, patched into the Jonestown encampment through a dodgy phone connection and an even dodgier PA system. Before migrating […]
Former President Donald Trump is now a convicted felon, and in protest, his supporters are now sharing upside-down American flags all across X. Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records by a Manhattan jury Thursday, in his hush money trial. Notable accounts sharing the inverted American flag include Rep. Marjorie Taylor […]
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche said the former president “should never, never face a jail sentence” for the conduct he was found guilty of earlier in the day. Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records by a Manhattan jury on Thursday in his hush money trial. TRUMP GUILTY […]
Unlike the countless men whose careers were killed in the fury of the #MeToo movement, Morgan Spurlock didn’t just deny he had committed serial sex abuse and misconduct, he embraced the reality that he was “a part of the problem,” canceling himself in a shocking 2017 blog post in which he confessed to harassing subordinates […]
