In the nauseating demonstrations celebrating Hamas’s slaughter of Israelis, one hears repeated, again and again, the refrain that Israelis are “settlers” and “colonists” — and therefore, in the catechism inculcated in universities in recent decades, oppressors not deserving of mercy or sympathy when tortured and murdered by those who deemed themselves the oppressed.
Maya Angelou famously once said, “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.” On Tuesday, Nikki Haley just showed the public who she is. It was troubling and, quite frankly, un-American.
President Biden met face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday in a high stakes meeting between the leaders of two global powers. Biden and Xi held their first in-person meeting in one year during the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in San Francisco, where they were expected to discuss improved military communications, stopping...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, called on federal lawmakers on Wednesday to pass legislation requiring parental approval for app store downloads by teenagers, as the company faces pressure to strengthen protections for children on its social media platforms. Antigone Davis, Meta’s global head of safety, said in a blog post that the...
There are many implications for a warming climate, melting icebergs, increasing temperatures, coral bleaching, and water scarcity. Each of these impacts is devastating in their own right, and while water scarcity may not receive the same attention as the above ground implications of climate change, it is still just as troublesome. There are two types...
An attorney for one of former President Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia admitted to providing proffer videos of defendants who pled guilty to a media outlet, a stunning revelation that came during an emergency court hearing Wednesday afternoon. Attorney Jonathan Miller, who is representing former Coffee County election supervisor Misty Hampton, did not name the outlet...
New Hampshire Secretary of state David Scanlan announced on Wednesday that the state’s presidential primary would be held on January 23rd ahead of South Carolina’s contest. The news comes as tensions have ramped up between New Hampshire Democrats and the Democratic National Committee over the committee’s decision to make South Carolina’s primary the first in...
How would you like to live in a country where people who criticize the nation’s leader end up in jail? Sounds more like Putin’s Russia than the United States. Last week, Donald Trump said that if he is returned to the White House, he would like to unleash the federal law enforcement apparatus on his...
In a letter Wednesday shared exclusively with The Hill, five Democrats who sit on the Senate Banking Committee urged the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require companies to disclose more details on their corporate lobbying strategy to shareholders. The senators want the SEC to develop a new rule that would “require registered companies to...
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) says that he would “absolutely” consider a presidential run, just a week after he said he wouldn’t seek reelection to the Senate. “Are you considering running for president?” NBC's "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker asked Manchin in an interview aired Wednesday. "I will do anything I can to help my...