TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A powerful earthquake rocked the entire island of Taiwan early Wednesday, collapsing buildings in a southern city and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands. A five-story building in lightly populated Hualien appeared heavily damaged, collapsing its first floor and leaving the rest leaning at a 45-degree angle. […]
President Joe Biden scaled back a planned Ramadan event after Muslim leaders expressed their dissatisfaction over his stance on the war in Gaza. Biden met with some Muslim leaders and then held a small dinner with some Muslims in his administration, Reuters reported. While the event was expected to be a larger affair, such as […]
Voters in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin are headed to the polls on Tuesday to cast their votes in the 2024 presidential primary race. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have already clinched their parties’ presumptive presidential nominations, so neither candidate is facing real competition. ELECTION 2024: FOLLOW LATEST COVERAGE Delaware […]
Harvard Law School professor Randall L. Kennedy called on Tuesday for the end of mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion statements, calling them “ideological pledges of allegiance.” Kennedy wrote an op-ed as part of a Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard calling out DEI ideology and the practice of forcing prospective professors to submit a statement […]
Former President Donald Trump is calling on President Joe Biden to debate him before November’s general election. Trump, who did not participate in any 2024 Republican primary debates, issued the challenge during a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, coinciding with the state’s presidential primary elections. “As you can see, we have an empty podium […]
A conservative legal group filed a misconduct complaint Tuesday against a federal judge in Washington, D.C., after the judge gave a rare national television interview on the topic of former President Donald Trump’s gag order in New York. Mike Davis, an ardent Trump supporter writing on behalf of the Article III Project, called Judge Reggie […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) reiterated her calls for House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) ousting just days after he had praised her as his “friend.” The congresswoman from Georgia amped up her attacks against Johnson on Tuesday night, claiming during an interview with Steve Bannon that Johnson is “doing the Deep State’s dirty work.” Earlier […]
Rep. Ruben Gallego’s (D-AZ) campaign announced it raised $7.5 million in the first three months of the year, more than doubling his prior quarterly filings after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) decided against running for reelection last month. Gallego’s fundraising haul far exceeds the $3.3 million he raised last quarter. He also reported that he has […]
A man in Florida who threatened to kill Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts was sentenced to 14 months in prison on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard sentenced Neal Brij Sidhwaney after he pleaded guilty to one count of making an interstate threat to injure back in December. Sidhwaney left an “expletive-laden” and […]
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg insisted Tuesday that the automobile industry is moving toward a future of selling electric vehicles exclusively despite dipping sales. Buttigieg was asked about the recent dip in Tesla’s quarterly sales, marking the first time for the electric automaker in its sales history. In response, Buttigieg argued that part of this dip […]
