Students occupying Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall will face expulsion after breaking in and vandalizing the private school property overnight. University spokesman Ben Chang announced Tuesday afternoon that students continuing to violate university policy “will be met with clear consequences.” He listed vandalizing property, breaking doors and windows, and blocking entrances as examples of violating conduct. […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is pressing President Joe Biden to visit a growing pro-Palestinian protest on Columbia University’s campus, lamenting there has been a “vacuum of leadership” as the student encampment continues to garner national attention. Johnson said he contacted the White House shortly after making his own visit to Columbia last week with […]
The GOP chairs of House Education and the Workforce and Oversight committees are demanding answers from Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and the district’s police department over reports that they “refused” to clear pro-Palestinian encampments at George Washington University. The encampments stem from the war between Israel and Hamas and have appeared across several college campuses […]
Actor Brian Cox dismissed the idea of religion, criticizing the Bible as “propaganda.” Cox, best known for playing Logan Roy on HBO’s Succession, discussed how he believes religion is holding back humanity while appearing on the Starting Line Podcast. He suggested religion was created as “a control issue,” adding that humanity ought to embrace a […]
The House Judiciary Committee asked the Department of Justice on Tuesday to provide information about its former employee Matthew Colangelo, one of the prosecutors leading the hush money case against former President Donald Trump in New York. Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner to Attorney General Merrick […]
The Biden administration is taking concrete steps to reclassify marijuana, which is labeled as a Schedule I drug, alongside heroin and LSD. On Tuesday, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced it intends to change the drug’s classification to be a Schedule III drug, on par with ketamine and some anabolic steroids. The change comes two years […]
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin believes it’s possible for Israel’s military to evacuate civilians out of Rafah safely and effectively before it starts a ground invasion, though he’s worried about Israel’s ability to execute such a plan. More than a million Palestinians have fled from their homes to the southernmost Gaza city of Rafah, which […]
Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard said she is ready to “serve my country” as vice president if she is offered the position by former President Donald Trump. Gabbard, who previously ran as a presidential candidate in 2020 before leaving the Democratic Party in 2022, is rumored to be on Trump’s short list of vice presidential candidates, […]
Journalists and commentators were looking forward to the boost in clicks and views that typically accompanies a robust presidential primary. But since the Republican primary was over before it began, and the media’s beloved Democrats are now making a mess of both domestic and foreign policy, many in the commentariat are spending a lot of time speculating about who […]
Donald Trump received the clearest threat of jail time yet in his New York criminal trial after a judge said on Tuesday that “jail may be a necessary punishment” for future gag order violations from the former president, a statement legal experts say could have sweeping consequences on his 2024 presidential election bid. Judge Juan […]
