Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) candidacy for president of the United States lasted just shy of eight months. For the most part, he remained solidly in second place and was never a major threat to former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. None of the Republican candidates have been, at least according to the polls. Still, Trump […]
The common refrain of pro-criminal, pro-criminal justice reform advocates is that no one can “prosecute or arrest our way” out of crime. The more you think about it, the less that “logic” makes sense. The latest to parrot this line was Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb, who said on Tuesday, “We as a city […]
Please, people, can we all agree that the vandalization of a satanic statue is not a “hate crime”? Please? The already problematic modern prosecution of “hate crimes” reached a farcical level this week when a Navy veteran was charged with that offense for destroying a statue erected by the Satanic Temple of Iowa. The statue […]
U.S.-Mexico relations were rattled Wednesday by reports of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation into drug money connections to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's 2006 campaign. Three distinct reports, published on ProPublica, InSight Crime and Deutsche Welle (DW), expanded on previous allegations that López Obrador aides took millions of dollars from drug cartels in 2006 in exchange for a...
WARREN, Mich. – President Biden sought to lean into his strengths during a Thursday trip to Michigan, even as the discontent among the state’s large Arab-American population over his handling of the situation in Gaza loomed over the visit. Biden met with Black community leaders and chatted with patrons at They Say, a Black-owned restaurant,...
A New York judge is expected to issue an “early to mid-February” ruling in the $370 million civil fraud case brought against former President Trump by the New York attorney general’s office, a court spokesperson said Thursday. Judge Arthur Engoron previously said he would aim to issue a decision by the end of January but...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday explained why his campaign's TikTok account includes a resurfaced comment on an OnlyFans model's TikTok account. "The TikTok comment in question was made in 2022 long before I ever had a TikTok account," Kennedy wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter....
An advertising agency that helped develop a marketing strategy to sell opioids like OxyContin agreed to a $350 million national settlement, attorneys general announced Thursday. The settlement will be paid by Publicis Health, part of the French media conglomerate Publicis Groupe and one of the world’s largest health care advertising companies. It marks the first...