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Mamdani roasted for staying tight-lipped on ‘war criminal’ Pezeshkian after raging about Netanyahu

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal but faces backlash for silence on Iran's Masoud Pezeshkian at UNGA.

Melania Trump reveals ‘the world’s biggest untapped economic force’ to kick off landmark NYSE summit

Melania Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange and urged female CEOs to move beyond mentorship toward ownership at IMPERIA.

DOJ Finds UC San Francisco Racially Discriminates in Medical School Admissions

MCAT scores and undergraduate GPAs ‘have taken a backseat to race’ in the school’s...

Saying No More en Français

Paul LePage’s campaign ad in Maine is evidence of a recurring pattern in American...

How NYC Public Schools Failed Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Daughter

Hannah-Jones’s essay reveals a remarkable incuriosity about the factors behind the failure of her...

Hawley invites Flock, Axon, other surveillance tech CEOs to testify

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) invited the CEOs of Flock Safety and other prominent AI-powered surveillance camera manufacturers to testify before the upper chamber's Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism next week. Hawley, the subcommittee's chair, wrote on social media Friday that he “invited the CEOs of Flock Safety, Axon, Motorola and Verkada to testify in...

Trump officially signs Russia sanctions bill into law

President Trump officially signed the Russia sanctions bill into law Friday, which authorizes further sanctions and tariffs against Russia amid the Kremlin’s ongoing conflict with Ukraine. The bill — championed and named after late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)  — calls for the president to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on the top five...

Pentagon’s count leaves out some deaths in Middle East during Iran war 

The Pentagon’s public database left out two deaths of U.S. service members deployed in the Middle East during the war against Iran, who took part in missions unrelated to the conflict in the Middle East. Maj. Sorffly Davius, who served in the 42nd Infantry Division at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, died of “undetermined causes” on March...

CDC director says RFK Jr. has final say

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare   The Big Story CDC director says RFK Jr. has final say In her first interview since taking leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Erica Schwartz told Atlanta News First that she isn’t afraid to disagree with Health Secretary Robert F....

GOP senator: Russian oligarch funding Trump Jr.’s party is ‘corruption’

Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) on Friday ripped President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. for letting a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to finance his wedding after-party in the Bahamas this year. Curtis called the generous gift “corruption” and pledged to say more about it in coming days....

How do we still know so little about Thomas Crooks

One of the highest honors of my professional life was serving as director of communications for the late Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.). Because of his poor childhood; his heroic actions in World War II; the three years he spent in a hospital fighting to survive his almost mortal wounds; and the innate goodness within him,...

Fox News contributors denounce Trump’s ban on CNN, MS NOW, Politico

Several contributors to Fox News offered stark criticism Friday of President Trump’s decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.  Trump announced the decision in a Friday Truth Social post, saying the ban would be “effective immediately” for those outlets, “as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” He suggested...

Republican highlights man freed from ICE custody in campaign ad

Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas) released a campaign advertisement featuring a man she helped get released Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, along with his wife — who described the U.S.'s immigration system as "broken." The ad, which first aired last week, shows an interview with a Weslaco, Texas, woman whose husband — a...

Trump touts Medicaid drug savings

All 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico have applied to participate in an arrangement intended to give lower drug prices to Medicaid programs, President Trump said Friday.  “This one thing alone should win us the midterms,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Forty states and Puerto Rico have already signed agreements, the Centers...

Here’s how CNN, Politico and MS NOW are responding to Trump’s White House ban

President Trump's threat to ban three national news outlets from covering the White House is sparking rebuke from First Amendment advocates, elected Democrats and critics from across politics and media. In a Truth Social post Friday afternoon, Trump wrote he was banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House "effective immediately” for what...

How data centers may use forever chemicals

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Forever chemicals could be another data center impact As AI data centers face intense public pushback over issues including their electricity and water use, another potential environmental impact is percolating: the proliferation of forever chemicals. © Spencer Platt, Getty Images Data centers can use these...

Trump: US strikes security deal with Greenland, Denmark 

President Trump said Friday that the United States has entered a security agreement with Greenland and Denmark that gives America a bigger say in the Arctic territory's affairs and expands its military presence in the country. Trump said the deal “gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely...

Kirk Herbstreit defends having Ted Cruz on ‘College GameDay’

Football analyst and ESPN personality Kirk Herbstreit defended the network's decision to have Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on the network's flagship college football pregame show last week. "We had him on because they were going to be voting this week," Herbstreit told reporters Friday, referring to the Protect College Sports Act, a Senate bill looking...

Iran’s water crisis requires more than just regime change

Iran’s water crisis is fundamentally a governance crisis.

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