Less than a year after the Supreme Court ruled against the practice of race-based preferences for college admissions, the landmark decision raises questions on whether corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts should prepare for a similar fate. Hundreds of companies have begun to reassess workplace diversity initiatives since the high court ruled against affirmative action […]
WESTMINSTER, California – President Joe Biden’s disco-era opposition to resettling Vietnamese refugees in the United States is ancient political history to most voters, if they’ve heard about it at all. But not for a small yet politically potent group in Southern California’s Little Saigon. It’s living history for immigrants from Vietnam after the war, and their […]
ANAHEIM HILLS, California — Rep. Michelle Steel’s (R-CA) reelection bid, against likely Democratic opponent Derek Tran, an attorney and U.S. Army veteran, is one of several hotly contested House races in California that could help decide the majority. Republicans are trying to chip away at Democrats’ 40-12 edge in the House delegation California sends to […]
Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) plans to strike down a bill Republican lawmakers approved Wednesday that would criminalize illegal immigration in Arizona. The Senate passed the Arizona Border Invasion Act, proposed by Republican state Sen. Janae Shamp, with 16 votes. The bill would make it a crime in the state if a person came through Arizona’s […]
President Joe Biden claimed at a Thursday fundraiser that two journalists specifically told him that they plan to flee the country if he loses his White House reelection bid to former President Donald Trump. Biden made the comment at a fundraiser in Mountain View, California, the final stop on his three-day junket in the Golden […]
New York Judge Arthur Engoron rejected former President Donald Trump’s request on Thursday to delay payment of the nearly $355 million he owes by an additional 30 days. Engoron claimed the defendants had failed to produce any justification for the stay request. Lawyers for Trump had requested the stay, claiming they were not given enough […]
Alabama is looking to use the nitrogen hypoxia execution method for the second time after the new method was used last month on death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith. Smith, who was convicted of stabbing a woman to death in 1988 in a murder-for-hire scheme, was strapped to a gurney and exposed to nitrogen gas […]
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Days ahead of the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, high-profile Republican allies of former President Donald Trump at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference railed against providing additional military funding to Ukraine, illustrating a growing foreign policy divide among members of the GOP. The conference, which is doubling as […]
Alexander Smirnov, an ex-informant who was arrested last week on charges of lying to the FBI, was arrested again on Thursday for the same charges. Smirnov, according to a court filing, was in a meeting with his attorneys in Las Vegas at the time of the second arrest. The arrest warrant issued on Thursday listed […]
The late Toby Keith’s music is still making waves, as several of his songs have made their way back to the charts following his death. Keith, who died on Feb. 5 following a yearslong battle with stomach cancer, was the country musician who wrote “Don’t Let The Old Man In,” which became last week’s bestselling […]
