Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says the FBI has his phone after someone tried to scam him by impersonating a communication from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), raising the possibility that one of the senators' phones was hacked. “My phone is in the hands of the FBI now,” Graham said at the Hill & Valley...
It is hard to think of a successful and sustainable state that consists of two more-or-less equally sized but geographically separate entities.
Vice President Harris on Thursday marked the second anniversary of the leaked Supreme Court draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade with a fresh round of attacks on former President Trump over abortion, in a video obtained exclusively by The Hill. “Two years ago, we learned in a leaked draft decision that the Supreme Court...
{beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Thursday. It appears that we have exited spring in Washington and skipped directly to the “Hell’s Front Porch” stage of the summer. Congrats! ???? Here’s a preview of today’s edition: President Biden just addressed the escalating protests happening on college campuses. His message: Protests should be peaceful, and violent protests are...
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Thursday morning that pro-Palestine protests on college campuses across the United States highlight a “complete breakdown of law and order.” “You have hundreds of thousands of American students who can't go back on campus, who feel threatened, who, in the middle of finals, are being disrupted," Rubio said during an...
Sarah Matthews, a former spokesperson for ex-President Trump, said Wednesday she expects a hypothetical second Trump term to be bereft of any aides with “competency and experience.” Instead, she said in an interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta, she expects the presumptive GOP nominee to surround himself with loyalists who would be eager to please him...
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed into law Wednesday a bill that will result in sweeping bans of "forever chemicals" across a wide range of consumer products. The law, SB-81, expands upon existing state legislation that prohibited the sale or distribution of certain products containing PFAS compounds, while laying out a specific timeline for the implementation of each...
No, it isn't you - but can you guess who it is?
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins clashed Wednesday over the ongoing college protests, the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and former President Trump’s legal cases, as speculation rises over Vance becoming Trump's potential running mate in November. Vance denounced mass pro-Palestine protests on college campuses across the nation, endorsing the...
Bipartisan lawmakers on Tuesday announced the start of a dog lovers caucus on Capitol Hill in the wake of a story about South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) shooting and killing a family dog. “In light of recent events, we’re launching the Congressional Dog Lovers Caucus today!” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said in a post...
President Biden was sharply critical Thursday of aspects of protests that have swept across college campuses nationwide in response to the war in Gaza, condemning vandalism and trespassing even as he defended the right to peacefully demonstrate. “In moments like this, there are always those who rush in to score political points. But this isn’t...
Music from artists represented by Universal Music Group will return to TikTok after reaching a new licensing deal, the companies announced Wednesday. Universal, which represents artists including Billie Eilish, Drake and Taylor Swift, pulled their artists' music from TikTok in February after failing to reach a new licensing deal over disputes about monetizing artists...
She was in a role that demands tact and courtesy, but now Deesha Dyer is getting "Undiplomatic," opening up about her unexpected ascent from community college student to Obama White House social secretary. In her just-released book, "Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble," Dyer recounts a 2009 conversation with her cousin...
Former President Trump blasted Fox News for hosting Robert Kennedy Jr. on it airwaves this week. "So bad that FoxNews puts RFK Jr., considered the dumbest member of the Kennedy Clan, on their fairly conservative platform so much. Competitive networks don’t want anything to do with him," Trump wrote on his Truth Social website Wednesday...
Three main trends are hurting Indian democracy as voters are being duped and flooded with false and misleading content: influencers, WhatsApp and generative artificial intelligence.
A senior New York City Police Department (NYPD) leader defended the department’s decision to aggressively clear pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and other colleges Tuesday, saying police “set the tone for the city” against protests he described as “lawless” and run by “spoiled kids.” Hundreds of NYPD officers armed with batons and wearing riot gear...
Inflation remains at the top of Americans’ minds when it comes to their financial woes, according to a new survey. The Gallup poll, released Thursday, found 41 percent of Americans listed inflation or a high cost of living as “the most important financial problem facing” their families, ranking ahead of issues including taxes and energy...
Columbia University announced on Thursday all classes and final exams were going remote for the rest of the academic year due to an “evolving” environment. “In order to address the concerns of our members in an evolving campus environment, all academic activities for schools on the Morningside Heights campus will be fully remote for...
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), who has been under the microscope this week for an anecdote about killing her dog, defended her actions Wednesday, saying she shot the "dangerous" pup in order to protect her children. “It was a dog that was extremely dangerous,” Noem said Wednesday on Fox News’s “Hannity.” “It had come...
The judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money case has begun Thursday's trial proceedings by holding a hearing to consider four more potential violations of a gag order imposed on the 2024 presumptive GOP nominee. Trump was already found in contempt of the gag order Tuesday, where the judge found him in violation for nine...
Justice Merchan should not allow Trump’s wealth to insulate him from the consequences of his actions.
Police entered an encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of California, Los Angeles early Thursday, after protestors ignored law enforcement's orders to leave the area. Officers removed barriers and began dismantling the encampment of tents after hours of threatening arrests by way of loudspeakers if there was not a dispersal of people, The Associated...
It may take some time for Columbia to recover from this trauma, but it has the ability to restore itself as a world-class intuition of higher learning.
How can a university both promote and permit speech while upholding the captive audience doctrine?
Today’s world has become a battlefield between tyrannical regimes and democratic governments. The situation in America's so-called backyard requires an early, preventive, and comprehensive attention.
