Hundreds of pro-Palestinian students occupied Columbia University‘s main lawn on Wednesday to demand the school divest from Israel, as university president Nemat Shafik was on Capitol Hill testifying about campus antisemitism. Members of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment started staging their occupation around 4:00 AM Wednesday morning, setting up tents and claiming they would remain there […]
An air base in Russian-occupied Crimea erupted with explosions after a Ukrainian strike against Russia’s most advanced air defense batteries, according to Ukrainian reports and analysts. “Damage to the latest S-400 system has been confirmed, with the launcher being blown up and serious damage done to the other machines of the system,” according to a […]
Women’s National Basketball Association player Caitlin Clark said she does not feel pressure to make the league more popular because that is happening naturally. Clark, who was just drafted by the Indiana Fever as the league’s top pick, was asked about her growing popularity, and if she ever feels pressured to “carry” women’s basketball. “I […]
PITTSBURGH — President Joe Biden assured steel union members in Pennsylvania on Wednesday of his unwavering support, announcing increased tariffs and protections for domestic manufacturing in the lead-up to the swing state’s primary for the 2024 election season. “The backbone of America has a steel spine,” Biden said. “We’re investing in American workers again.” Biden […]
Senate Democrats quickly dashed House Republicans’ effort to force the upper chamber to put impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on trial. The Senate voted Wednesday that the first article of impeachment against Mayorkas is unconstitutional, effectively dismissing it, at the request of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). The vote was 51-48-1, with all Democrats […]
Actress Molly Ringwald, who famously played in several of director John Hughes’s coming-of-age “brat pack” movies in the 1980s, said those films were “really, really, very white.” “Those movies, the movies that I am so well known for, they were very much of the time. And if you were to remake that now, I think […]
Columbia University president Nemat Shafik confirmed during a hearing Wednesday on campus antisemitism at her school that two professors are “under investigation for discriminatory remarks.” Shafik was asked by multiple members of Congress about allegedly antisemitic remarks from several faculty members, and she confirmed during her testimony that Arab politics professor Joseph Massad and law […]
President Joe Biden has given his blessing to a new national security supplemental aid package. “I strongly support this package to get critical support to Israel and Ukraine, provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and bolster security and stability in the Indo-Pacific,” the president said Wednesday in a prepared statement. “Israel is […]
In an attempt to drain Republican coffers and force incumbent lawmakers to compete in races, Democrats have placed challengers in every Idaho district for the first time in three decades. The Republican-dominated state, which has only 18 Democrats in its 105-seat legislature across two chambers, has faced renewed vigor from the opposition party because of […]
The Senate is holding its impeachment trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after he was impeached by the House of Representatives earlier this year. The trial began Wednesday afternoon after the House impeachment managers delivered the articles of impeachment on Tuesday. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER The trial in the […]
