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Schumer demands hate crime probe into firebombing of Gov. Shapiro’s home

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer urged the Justice Department to pursue an investigation into whether the arson of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's home was an antisemitic hate crime.

George Clooney defends Biden exit call: ‘It was a civic duty’

George Clooney says he has no regrets about urging then-President Biden to bow out of the 2024 race -- and he's not losing sleep over any lingering backlash.

Trump’s talks with Italy steam ahead after progress on trade deals with Mexico, Japan

President Trump headed into talks Thursday with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after a series of "productive" trade negotiations with Mexico and Japan.

Arson attack probe at Pennsylvania governor’s mansion looking into suspect’s hatred of Josh Shapiro

Authorities investigating why a man set fire to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's official residence are probing whether the suspect was motivated by the Democrat's Jewish faith or positions on Israel's war in Gaza.

Trump anti-DEI policies could block Latino and women’s history museums from National Mall

The Trump administration's anti-diversity policies are threatening to upend a bipartisan push to authorize the Smithsonian Institution to build museums dedicated to women and Latinos on the National Mall -- additions President Trump approved in his first term.

Supreme Court expected to consider giving Trump more firing power, overruling 90-year-old precedent

President Trump's firing spree of independent agency leaders is running into a 90-year-old Supreme Court case that judges have used to block many of those ousters.

Los Angeles’s incompetence turned the city into a fire pit

Los Angeles’s incompetent leadership turned the city into a ticking time bomb for massive fire damage. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the Los Angeles Fire Department had a budget of around $837 million. Los Angeles spent more money on homelessness — around $961 million. LAFD is also forced to spend its own resources and money […]

Rest in peace, Mario Vargas Llosa

At a 1976 movie premiere in Mexico City, Mario Vargas Llosa famously punched his soon-to-be ex-friend, novelist Gabriel García Márquez, in the face. Some theorize the ruckus was about Vargas Llosa’s wife. Others believe it was a row over politics, as Vargas Llosa would soon refer to García Márquez as “Castro’s courtesan.” I like to think the latter happened. […]

The casualties of America’s loss of glassware manufacturing to China

CHARLEROI — For 132 years, the sound of the factory air whistle signaling the start of the work day at the plant along 8th and McKean Avenue in this Washington County borough meant all the things we associate with work: men and women had jobs, families had food on their table, the societal fabric was […]

Florida Democrat chides RFK Jr. over ‘disrespectful’ rhetoric around autism

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for comments he made Wednesday about autism. In a Wednesday press conference on a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kennedy said that “autism destroys families.” “More importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which [is] our children,”...

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