The ancient pagan world was full of human sacrifice. The most horrifying instance was child sacrifice. We got an inkling of this in this summer’s smash-hit The Odyssey, with the brief depiction of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter for favorable winds. One of the most important changes that occurred from the pagan to the monotheistic, Judeo-Christian […]
Republican politicians expressed outrage after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to laugh on camera during a memorial for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) predicted Sunday “that there will be strings attached to money that is ultimately approved” for Los Angeles-area fire aid. “Do you expect, though, that Congress and Republicans will still help these Americans in need, even if they don't like their local politics in the party?” CBS News’s Margaret Brennan...
Vice President-elect JD Vance dismissed concerns that President-elect Trump might try to withhold federal aid from California as it seeks to rebuild the damage from the wildfires. In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Shannon Bream asked Vance about Trump’s remarks from September 2024, when he threatened at a press conference in Los Angeles to...
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that he is “a no” on the Laken Riley Act “as currently written.” “As currently written, I'm a no because it opens the doors for people simply being charged without a conviction, to be detained and deported, that includes minors, that includes Dreamers, that's shoplifting a pack of...
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that President Biden made the right strategic call to withdraw from Afghanistan three years ago and that history reflects well on that decision. "The strategic call President Biden made, looking back three years, history has judged well and will continue to judge well," Sullivan said in an...
Federal response teams are combatting the Los Angeles fires blazing across hundreds of acres, which have forced thousands to evacuate from their homes. President Biden was in Los Angeles this week to visit local agencies and provide updates. However, President-elect Trump remained largely critical of Biden and other Democratic leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Mayor Karen...
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) said on Sunday that she is confident President-elect Trump will ensure Californians "have what they need" as they rebuild from the wildfires. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Jake Tapper asked whether she thinks Trump should honor President Biden’s pledge for the federal government to cover 100 percent...
President-elect Trump slammed officials in charge of handling the raging wildfires in the Los Angeles area, calling them "incompetent." "The fires are still raging in L.A.," Trump wrote on Truth Social early Sunday morning. "The incompetent pols have no idea how to put them out. Thousands of magnificent houses are gone, and many more will...
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said on Sunday that it’s important for weather events, like the California wildfires, not to become political. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” anchor Jake Tapper asked Criswell about President-elect Trump calling California Gov. Gavin Newsom incompetent because the wildfires have not been fully contained. On whether she’s...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced an executive order centered around rebuilding in the wake of the recent Los Angeles-area wildfires on Sunday. “I'm worried about issues of rebuilding as it relates to scarcity, as it relates to property taxes, meaning scarcity of resources, materials, personnel. I'm worried about time to getting these projects done,”...
The death toll from the southern California wildfires reached 16, as of Saturday night, while the fires remained mostly uncontained and additional evacuation orders were underway. The Palisades Fire caused five of the deaths and the Eaton Fire caused 11 of the deaths, according to an update from the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. Previously,...
As demand for connected devices and digital technologies continues to increase, so does the need for trusted and secure chips. Legacy chips are one important piece of that puzzle.
James Stavridis, former NATO supreme allied commander, said he doesn’t think President-elect Trump’s comments about Greenland are “crazy." “It’s not a crazy idea.… We could do an awful lot in terms of business, investment, box out the Russians, box out the Chinese, and work very closely with Greenland,” he told radio host John Catsimatidis in...
