Oops. A honcho with the LA teachers union (UTLA) is saying the quiet part out loud. As the California Post reported: Julie Van Winkle, UTLA AFT vice president and...
A Utah judge on Monday ordered a 71-year-old man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing to be released on bail, despite objections from the victim's family, after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him.
The White House has spent days fiercely defending three taxpayer-funded advertisements that glorify President Donald Trump and are nearing at least $1.5 million in public spending, calling them public service announcements like those used in past administrations.
Americans are split on whether women should be required to have an in-person visit with a doctor before receiving abortion pills ahead of the Supreme Court ruling that will determine access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortion. Around 50 percent of respondents in the new Reuters/Ipsos poll said they were...
The Israeli military said Friday that its troops found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attack. The military identified the bodies as 22-year-old German Israeli Shani Louk, 28-year-old Amit Buskila and 56-year-old Itzhak Gelerenter, The Associated Press reported. Hamas killed the three individuals as they attempted to flee...
The House approved a resolution Friday that condemns “calls to defund the police,” taking aim at the rallying cry embraced by some progressives amid the Black Lives Matter movement. The chamber approved the four-page measure in a 337-61 vote, with all opposition coming from Democrats, a number of whom are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus....
President Biden on Friday commemorated the 70th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling that ended segregation in public schools. “Seventy years ago, when the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, a prayer was answered in the long struggle for freedom,” said Biden, speaking...
Ray Dalio, the billionaire investor and founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, said he sees a growing likelihood that the United States will plunge into a civil war. In an interview with Financial Times, Dalio, 74, detailed his research in which he found a 35 percent to 40 percent chance that the U.S. will have...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hit back at Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) following his derisive comments on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing Thursday night that erupted in chaos and was littered with insults. “In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Show,” Fetterman said Friday morning on social media platform...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) condemned the tone of a raucous Thursday night House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing saying members need to show decorum. “It's not a good look for Congress,” Johnson told reporters as they asked about a meeting that fell into chaos after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) taunted Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) for using...
{beacon} 12:30 REPORT Happy Friday! Season 3 of Bridgerton is out and I’m SO excited. Here’s what’s happening today: House lawmakers erupted into a verbal brawl last night during a hearing. It was wild. Just watch the video. That’s all I’ll say. Masters Tournament champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested this morning in an incident near...
CNN and Fox News personalities ripped into House Oversight lawmakers over Thursday night mayhem where they traded insults and threw the committee into disorder that lasted nearly an hour. The Thursday night hearing, to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, spiraled into chaos as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
Sen. John Fetterman says the wild and chaotic scene inside a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday night, which featured lawmakers lobbing multiple appearance-related insults at one another, was worse than an episode of "The Jerry Springer Show." "In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as 'The Jerry Springer Show,'" the Pennsylvania Democrat said in a...
Hunter Biden’s attorneys have asked the judge overseeing his tax case in California to delay the trial, which is set for June, until September or later. Earlier this week, Biden lost his attempt to delay his federal gun trial in Delaware, with the district judge ruling the trial will continue as scheduled in June. The...
