A lawyer was questioned by former President Donald Trump’s defense team in New York on Thursday about his efforts to reach nondisclosure agreements with high-profile figures and whether his work ever amounted to extortion. Trump’s attorney asked Keith Davidson, who represented two women now entangled in Trump’s hush money case, if he was worried about […]
President Joe Biden will present the country’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), former Vice President Al Gore, Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky, and 17 other people with White House pageantry on Friday. “President Biden often says there is nothing beyond our capacity when we act together,” […]
EXCLUSIVE — The Independent Council on Women’s Sports filed a brief to the United Nations in the wake of the Biden administration’s Title IX overhaul, detailing both the physical and psychological anguish girls will be forced into when competing against men in sports. In a letter submitted to Reem Alsalem, the United Nations special rapporteur […]
Anti-Israel protesters stormed a library at Portland State University on Thursday evening for a second time, hours after law enforcement officers initially cleared the building of protesters who occupied it as part of the protest and demonstration. Police officers were called to clear the library of its illegal occupants on Thursday morning, multiple outlets reported. […]
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) said Thursday that Arkansas will not comply with new federal regulations that would ban discrimination of LGBT students under federal law. The move comes as other Republican-lead states made similar defiant moves against the Biden administration. Sanders said Arkansas will continue to enforce bathroom restrictions, which could become invalid with […]
The Alabama Supreme Court authorized the state attorney general’s request for an execution date for inmate Alan Eugene Miller using nitrogen gas. The Alabama Supreme Court authorized the use of nitrogen gas on Miller, which will be the second time it is used for execution in the state. Gov. Kay Ivey (R-AL) has not yet […]
Contrary to the claims of TikTok itself, a new law does not ban the social media behemoth outright from the country. That’s what lawmakers said was contained in the measure that President Joe Biden signed recently, along with military aid for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. Rather, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act […]
Because documentary films contend with real people and real events, it is to be expected that they shape the public’s understanding of those people and events. But it is a different matter altogether when those films start to have a tangible impact on the people or events they are purporting to document. What if Fahrenheit […]
One hour after news began circulating that an abortion law written in 1864 would take effect in Arizona, Vice President Kamala Harris announced she was traveling to the state to make a speech. She had visited Phoenix just one month prior to talk about the threat of abortion bans, and Harris went to the Grand […]
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce met the Federal Trade Commission’s late April announcement that it would ban all future employee noncompete agreements with a simple, uncompromising declaration: See you in court. “The Federal Trade Commission’s decision to ban employer noncompete agreements across the economy is not only unlawful but also a blatant power grab that […]
