A GoFundMe campaign to pay for the recent civil judgment against Former President Donald Trump had reached nearly $500,000 in donations from more than 9,000 individual contributors on Monday. Social media influencer Elena Cardone, wife of billionaire private equity fund manager and entrepreneur Grant Cardone, set up the fundraising site on Friday following the judge’s […]
New York City Mayor Eric Adams was questioned and criticized on Sunday about a plan to house illegal immigrants in apartments with a swimming pool and marble bathrooms. The plan would see immigrants housed in what Spectrum News described as an “unused luxury apartment building” at 2201 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., which upset some […]
The International Court of Justice began hearing oral arguments on Monday over the Israeli occupation of territory claimed by Palestinians. Representatives from 52 countries will participate in a six-day hearing at The Hague, Netherlands, to adjudicate the decades-old debate under the cloud of a contentious war in the region. The case comes from a request […]
President Joe Biden is currently weighing his options for the U.S. response to the suspicious death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Biden told reporters on Monday that he is “considering additional sanctions” against Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin following Navalny’s death on Friday at a prison camp above the Arctic Circle. In 2021, […]
Just as Shohei Ohtani Day at Dodger Stadium and Aaron Judge Day at Yankee Stadium come with a bobblehead of the baseball stars, Presidents Day now has its own lineup of bobbing chief executives. Our friends at the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum announced a new series of figurines on Monday featuring presidents […]
Israel‘s economy has contracted sharply after the start of the war with Hamas, marking the first economic downturn for the country in two years. When annualized, Israel’s gross domestic product nosedived by 19.4% in the fourth quarter, according to a statement from the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics on Monday. This is compared to 1.8% […]
The wife of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny vowed on Monday to continue the political work of her late husband, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin was responsible for his death. “Three days ago, Vladimir Putin killed my husband, Alexei Navalny,” Yulia Navalnaya said in a YouTube video statement. “Putin killed the father […]
(The Center Square) – The rise of pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. university campuses often feature protesters calling for violence against Jews, leaving Jewish students feeling unsafe and frustrated by the lack of response from school administrators and federal officials. Pro-Palestine sentiment is not new to many of these campuses, but the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas […]
(The Center Square) – Three out of six initiatives to the Legislature will receive public hearings, Democratic leaders confirmed on Friday afternoon. The three measures getting public hearings are Initiative 2081 to establish a parental bill of rights relating to their children’s public school education, Initiative 2111 to prohibit state and local governments from enacting […]
(The Center Square) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a measure authorizing a local referendum to let voters decide whether to create a new city in Gwinnett County. Under Senate Bill 333, voters will decide in November whether to establish a new city of Mulberry, which would cover roughly 25.9 square miles in northeastern Gwinnett County […]
