Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced on Friday that she was endorsing former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in the 2024 Republican presidential primary ahead of Super Tuesday. Murkowski, a centrist who handily defeated a primary challenger backed by former President Donald Trump in her last reelection race, is the first Senate Republican to endorse someone […]
Eric Hovde, the Republican businessman running for U.S. Senate, challenged his rival, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), with a cold plunge in the Wisconsin lake in an effort to put the carpetbagger accusations to bed. The multimillionaire posted a video to X on Thursday showing him shirtless as he plunged through a thick layer of ice […]
ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith was enraged by a clip of President Joe Biden sitting down to a fried chicken dinner with a black family. Biden was seen in a video clip interviewing two teenage boys and their father over a meal. While the president and the father appeared to eat hamburgers, the boys had […]
Defense attorneys in former President Donald Trump‘s Georgia racketeering case on Friday sought to convince a judge that District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified based on an “appearance of a conflict of interest” as closing arguments commenced in the blockbuster case. Lawyers for the Fulton County DA office and defense attorneys clashed over whether, […]
A New Jersey businessman and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) co-defendant pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges Friday. Jose Uribe, a former insurance broker, is accused of bribing Menendez’s wife, Natalie Menendez, with a Mercedes Benz in exchange for the senator to negotiate in an insurance fraud investigation. Uribe pleaded guilty to seven charges, including conspiracy […]
Berkeley Unified School District in California is at the center of a federal antisemitic bullying complaint fueled by teachers and students engaging in “severe and persistent” harassment of Jewish children, according to a federal civil rights filing. The complaint filed Wednesday with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights details four months of […]
The University of Florida has fired all staff related to its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. University officials announced Friday that the school has closed down its “Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated DEI positions and administrative appointments, and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors” in order to comply with a regulation banning expenditures […]
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) gave his clearest indication yet that he will run to replace Mitch McConnell (R-KY) when the minority leader steps down in November. “I’m seriously considering it,” he said Friday on The Charlie Kirk Show. Scott ran for the post over a year ago, posing the first challenge to McConnell’s 17-year tenure […]
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley portrayed herself and her supporters as not “anti-Trump” before Super Tuesday. “In all the narrative, everybody pretty much assumes that this is an anti-Trump movement, and it’s actually not,” Haley told reporters during a roundtable, per USA Today. On Friday morning, Haley was in Washington, D.C., which holds its primary […]
Three leading Jewish organizations launched a pro bono antisemitism helpline on Thursday to assist California parents of children experiencing anti-Jewish harassment in K-12 schools. The pilot helpline comes after a complaint was filed on Wednesday against Berkeley, California’s K-12 system detailing a number of reports from parents and students exposing antisemitic behavior conducted by peers […]
