As Kent State University prepares to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the shooting of anti-Vietnam War protesters on its campus, universities are struggling with how to respond to present-day pro-Palestinian agitators protesting the Israel-Hamas war. The May 4, 1970, crackdown on anti-war protesters by the Ohio National Guard weighs heavily on the minds of school […]
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) became the first Democrat to call for fellow Rep. Henry Cuellar’s (D-TX) resignation on Friday following the Texas congressman’s indictment by the Department of Justice. “While the bar for Federal indictment is high, trust in our government is low,” Phillips said. “That’s why office holders and candidates under indictment should resign […]
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik admitted on Friday that protesters who illegally occupied Hamilton Hall “crossed a new line.” Days after New York Police Department officers cleared the hall, Shafik addressed the chaos that has unfolded on her campus in a video on Friday. She described the past two weeks as being “among the most […]
The Austin City Council passed a resolution ensuring that transgender people may receive gender reassignment therapy and providing protections for healthcare providers as well. The resolution comes just days after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its changes to Title IX, which expanded sex-based discrimination in the federal […]
Former President Donald Trump mocked special counsel Jack Smith for “mishandling” the classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago. Trump reacted to Smith’s recent filing in the election subversion case against him in which the prosecutor admitted that “there are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans.” In a post on […]
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) will no longer attend a fundraiser in Colorado slated for Saturday after it was canceled due to threats against her that arose from an excerpt from her book that described her shooting her young hunting dog. An excerpt from No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move […]
Business magnate Warren Buffett is slated to sit in on his 60th Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska. Buffett, 93, will solicit questions during a five-hour meeting similar to the one he attended last year. While his successor, Vice Chairman Greg Abel, 61, will be there, this will be the first meeting without […]
President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 former and current politicians, activists, actors, and athletes Friday at the White House, a ceremony Biden referred to as one of his favorite events of the year. Biden notably bestowed the nation’s highest civilian honor on political allies, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi […]
For the past 18 years, Hala Rharrit has served in the State Department, and for the past year and a half, she served as an Arab language spokeswoman until announcing her resignation due to the Biden administration’s policy on the Israel-Hamas war. “I had full intentions of continuing on in my career until I reached […]
Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) hit back at Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger after the rock star threw a jab at him. At a Thursday night concert, Jagger, 80, made a quip that Landry wanted to return the world to the Stone Age, a common accusation against Republicans by their opponents. Landry used the wording to […]
