The reboot series that began with 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes is one of the very few postmillennial retreads that justified itself. Planet of the Apes, the classic 1968 thought experiment about a simian genocide of the human race and the victim of a forgettable 2001 Tim Burton remake, became the inspiration […]
During the House Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday evening, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) shot nasty remarks at each other. The hearing got off to a rocky start regarding why everyone was meeting — committee members were discussing whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt — and why so […]
Christian financial guru Dave Ramsey offered to host a conference in support of Israel after its first venue canceled due to threats. The Israel Summit was forced to find a new location when Sonesta Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, backed out of the event slated for May 20-22. This is the first conference of its kind, born […]
Republican House lawmakers are demanding answers from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons regarding reports that two anti-abortion elderly women in their custody were not provided with “medically necessary health care services.” “We are deeply concerned by reports suggesting that the U.S. Marshal Service did not provide medically necessary health care services […]
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) accused President Joe Biden of “turning his back on students” in backing out of a debate at Virginia State University. Biden announced that he would participate in two debates against his rival, former President Donald Trump, instead of those moderated by the Commission on Presidential Debates, including one at VSU on […]
A judge on Thursday said attorneys could begin delivering closing arguments in former President Donald Trump‘s hush money trial as early as Tuesday, clearing the way for the jury to begin deliberating on Trump’s fate by the end of the week. The schedule, if it holds, would mean a verdict on whether Trump falsified business […]
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) on Thursday pardoned Daniel Perry, who was convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed protester in 2020 during a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin, Texas. The former U.S. Army sergeant was convicted in April 2023 for the killing of Garrett Foster. Working as an Uber driver, Perry said he […]
Senate Democrats on Thursday refiled a previously failed bipartisan border security bill in a bid to force Republicans to again oppose legislation they helped craft just months before the November election. But the Republican co-author of the measure will vote down the proposal this go-around and disparaged what he called a “nonserious” attempt to score […]
Nearly a dozen House Republicans showed up in Manhattan outside the courthouse of former President Donald Trump’s trial on Thursday, disrupting scheduled legislative business in the Capitol in the process. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), surrounded by fellow Republican lawmakers, said they were there to protest the gag order preventing Trump from speaking. “We are here […]
In a possible tease of his pick for running mate, presidential candidate Donald Trump echoed a school choice sentiment Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) has repeatedly hailed. The former president called parental rights the “civil rights issue of our time” in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, a conviction that has formed the cornerstone of Scott’s […]
