Beijing is outraged over a press freedom event held at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this week. The event called attention to the annihilation of free speech rights subsequent to a national security law being introduced in Hong Kong. As reported by Reuters, Beijing first pressured foreign diplomats to avoid the United Kingdom-organized event. Now that the event has concluded, China is expressing fury over what it entailed.
Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Thursday said local school districts “don’t really have a choice” in adopting his administration's new model policies for the treatment of transgender students, warning that remaining holdouts are putting themselves in legal jeopardy. “There’s no decision to be made here,” Youngkin said Thursday during an appearance on Fox News's...
A New York State judge ruled in favor of a New York City rule that sets a minimum wage requirement for app-based delivery workers, serving a blow to major food delivery companies who tried to stop the new law. In a ruling Thursday, New York State Supreme Court Judge Nicholas Moyne denied a request from Uber, DoorDash...
Conservative podcast host Steve Bannon mocked House Republicans for selecting a witness who testified at the first impeachment inquiry hearing that there was not enough evidence to vote to impeach President Biden. Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Trump, criticized Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry for not verifying what Jonathan Turley had planned to...
A Democratic congressman displayed a 2019 tweet from House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) to argue that the impeachment inquiry into President Biden is “political theater.” Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) started off his remarks to the committee by quoting a tweet posted by Comer in 2019 during former President Trump’s first impeachment...
Merriam-Webster announced this week that hundreds of new terms and words have been added to its dictionary, including popular slang, gaming and digital-world terms.
Some members of Congress have taken the position that keeping our government functioning doesn’t really matter, and that pulling the plug on funding for the new fiscal year starting on Oct. 1 is a good way to make a political statement and drive our country in a different direction. The truth is that a government...
Georgia State Sen. Colton Moore, who demanded a special session of the legislature for an investigation of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D), was indefinitely suspended from the chamber's GOP caucus Thursday. “Despite the fact 32 of 33 Republican State Senators, the Governor, Lt. Governor, Speaker of the House, and the Chairman of the...
A construction worker in San Francisco died Thursday after a trench collapsed under a sidewalk on him, trapping him under an estimated eight to ten feet of dirt and concrete, fire officials said. More than 50 firefighters spent over two hours trying to rescue the buried worker in the Lower Haight neighborhood, but he did...