To Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), who is running for reelection in the swing state of Wisconsin in 2024, the “revolving door” between government and K Street is “spinning out of control as billionaires and special interests rig the system.” Baldwin, the Badger State’s junior senator since 2013, says the constant flow of taxpayer-backed staffers to […]
Some pro-Palestinian protesters causing chaos at Columbia University and other campuses this week belong to groups that have financial ties to prominent left-wing donors. Tensions continue to flare at Columbia as the pro-Palestinian protesters enter their seventh day of occupying part of campus. The protest has seen more than 100 protesters arrested, attracted a massive […]
The Federal Trade Commission is warning about scammers targeting people with promises to cancel their student loans, and critics say President Joe Biden fueled the fire himself. Biden has been pledging to cancel student loans since the 2020 presidential campaign and has rolled out a wide range of programs and proposals toward that end. While his […]
New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone was ejected from Monday’s game against the Oakland Athletics after an umpire appeared to confuse a fan’s heckling with Boone’s. The ejection happened just five pitches after the start of the game. After a pitch from Yankees starter Carlos Rodón was called a strike by Hunter Wendelstedt, the home […]
Several students and faculty at New York University were arrested hours after officials had told assembled pro-Palestinian protesters to disperse. The protesters assembled at Gould Plaza outside of the University’s Stern School of Business had been told by the university to disperse by 4 p.m., citing safety and security concerns. Police began to move in […]
Parents and students of North Penn School District in North Wales, Pennsylvania, called out teachers and administrators after a transgender student, a biological male identifying as a female, brutally beat an unidentified middle school girl with a Stanley cup in the school cafeteria last week. The victim was hit so severely that she was hospitalized […]
Baltimore officials filed a lawsuit against the owners and operators of the Dali, which struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, causing the bridge to collapse and killing six people, seeking damages for the incident. The filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland from Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and the […]
A Columbia University professor who has been an outspoken critic of the university’s handling of continuous pro-Palestinian student protests suggested that the university’s administration may be “negotiating” with the protest’s leadership. Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, was seen on Monday in a viral video having a combative exchange with university administrators […]
Starbucks is debuting a new line of “sustainable cold cups” across the United States to tackle carbon emissions just in time for Earth Day on Monday. After four years of experimenting in the Tryer Center, the 20,000-square-foot company’s lab of innovation in Seattle, Starbucks has studied how to have fewer plastics in cold cup designs […]
Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY) is requesting President Joe Biden delay his planned trip to Syracuse, New York, as law enforcement officers in the area are reeling from the deaths of two police officers. Biden is visiting upstate New York on Thursday to tout the CHIPS and Science Act, among other stops in the Empire State. […]
