Mayor Brandon Johnson lied during his campaign to become mayor of Chicago, but now he has erased any doubt: He wants to make life harder for poor students by destroying selective enrollment in the name of “equity.”
Israeli soldiers killed three Israeli hostages in Gaza after they were “mistakenly identified ... as a threat,” the country's military said Friday. Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said it was not clear if the hostages had escaped their captors or were abandoned. The shooting occurred in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of central Gaza City,...
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is calling on corporate America to recommit to diversity, equity and inclusion promises, including $50 billion in investments, made after the 2020 murder of George Floyd. In a corporate accountability letter, previewed by The Hill, the CBC asks corporations for an update on their racial equity investments and to work with the caucus to create legislative...
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo described the difficult experience of watching footage Thursday of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, likening the attack to Sept. 11 and the Holocaust. Cuomo said he had a “heavy day,” viewing 47 minutes of prepared footage at the Israeli consulate in New York City depicting the Hamas surprise attack on...
By carefully refraining in this manner from laying down First Amendment principles for social media companies that are so expansive that they inhibit any regulation whatsoever, the justices can protect both free speech and the democratic lawmaking process.
The Biden administration's plans for increased natural gas exports are causing a revolt within the Democratic Party. Despite the boom in renewables reducing domestic demand for fossil fuels, the administration is backing the gas industry's plans to sell fuel at higher prices abroad, believing they will lead to less production of climate-warming chemicals like carbon dioxide...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pressed Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, on Thursday for information about its moderation of Palestinian content amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Dozens of human rights and civil society organizations have raised concerns about Meta’s “reported suppression, filtering, and mistranslation of Palestine-related content over the past two months,” Warren...
Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk will pause its container shipments through the Red Sea until further notice after various vessels came under attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. “Following the near-miss incident involving Maersk Gibraltar yesterday and yet another attack on a container vessel today, we have instructed all Maersk vessels in the area bound to...