Country music artist John Rich said he is willing to play at a “rager” for members of a fraternity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “I reached out and I said, ‘Boys, I sure am proud of you. When you have that big rager you guys are talking about on GoFundMe, I'd...
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona sent a letter Friday to college and university presidents condemning what he called “abhorrent” antisemitic incidents on campus, the latest response from the Biden administration to the ongoing nationwide protests. Cardona’s letter takes a sterner tone from the administration and comes the day after a brief address from President Biden where...
Former GOP presidential candidate and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie claimed it's “more likely than not” that sports commentator Stephen A. Smith runs for president in the future. “I don’t think it’s imminent, but will he run someday? I think it’s more likely than not that he would,” Christie said in a report by The...
The White House on Friday praised the actions of a group of University of North Carolina students who held up the American flag at a protest on campus over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked during a briefing whether President Biden would consider making a donation to the fraternity members...
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) was just a boy when civil rights leader Medgar Evers was gunned down in front of his Mississippi home in 1963. But Evers’s legacy left a lasting impact on the 13-term congressman. “I was very young when he died in his driveway, killed by a fellow who somehow saw him as...
The Austin City Council passed protections for gender-affirming care Thursday, only a few days after the state of Texas filed a lawsuit over Title IX changes granting protections for transgender people. “Trans people deserve the right to self determination,” City Council member José "Chito" Vela, one of the sponsors of the resolution, said at a...
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Friday slammed the United Auto Workers (UAW) union's call for the release of students and university employees arrested as part of pro-Palestine protests at campuses across the country. “They’re demanding the release of their criminal members who broke the law & threatened the safety of students,” Cassidy said in a...
The U.S. must use its budding domestic initiatives to lead the way on AI governance, ensuring that AI does not become a tool of authoritarians. Our future depends on it.
Former President Trump on Friday complained about a recording of a phone call between him and Michael Cohen played as evidence during his hush money trial. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said the tape, “while good for my case, was cut off at the end, in the early stages of something very positive that...
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and his wife were indicted Friday on charges related to accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes and laundering the funds. The indictment filed by the Justice Department details payments Cuellar allegedly accepted both from an oil company owned by the Azerbaijan government as well as a Mexican bank. “The bribe payments were...
Mark Hamill says the force is with President Biden — the actor made a surprise visit Friday to the White House briefing room and offered a "Star Wars"-inspired nickname for the commander in chief. "How many of you had 'Mark Hamill will lead the press briefing' on your bingo cards?" Hamill, sporting a pair of...
The Electoral College is not the faceless “race to 270” that cable news portrays it to be.
President Biden on Friday afternoon will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 people of diverse backgrounds, with actions and achievements spanning the better part of a century. Among those receiving this highest of civilian honors are two prominent figures from the Civil Rights movement: Clarence B. Jones, a lawyer and activist who co-wrote...
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin said Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) wouldn’t help former President Trump with gaining Black voters in the 2024 election if he ends up being picked as the vice presidential candidate. Scott, who endorsed Trump early this year, is one of the candidates the former president is considering to pick as his...
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) memoir has not been released, but inaccuracies in the text are already emerging. Noem’s spokesperson said “two small errors” have been brought to the Republican governor's attention. The book is titled “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward." The Dakota...
Residents of households with gas or propane stoves are regularly inhaling pollutants that are both exacerbating childhood asthma rates and causing early death, a coast-to-coast study of U.S. homes found. A mix of pollutants, with nitrogen dioxide (NO2) chief among them, may be responsible for as many as 200,000 current such asthma cases, according to...
We need to decouple Indigenous identity from race in federal data for two reasons.
f negotiators fail to act, they place all of humanity at grave risk of a global health catastrophe, and the harsh judgment of generations who would look back at this inflection point in horror at the road not taken.
Centrist Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) is blasting the Biden administration’s new interpretation of which vehicles can qualify for electric vehicle tax credits — saying it gives too much leeway for batteries containing Chinese materials. “The Administration has made clear from Day 1 of implementing the consumer electric vehicle tax credit in the Inflation Reduction...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) mocked the students protesting on college campuses after a report was released stating a Houthi-run university in Yemen will offer slots to those suspended at U.S. universities. “If a homicidal, Iranian-funded, terrorism proxy wants to pick up your college education tab, you really, really might want to reevaluate things,” Fetterman posted...
As the parade of 2024 global elections continues, including the massive vote underway in India, the U.S. will likely get further previews of how much damage deepfakes can cause.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) knocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) effort to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as “silly,” while praising him as a “strong” conservative. “I think it is silly,” Cruz said during this Thursday appearance on RealClearPolitics’s radio show. “I think it is seriously counterproductive. I think Mike Johnson is a strong conservative...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is scheduled to brief reporters on Friday afternoon. The briefing comes after President Biden drew a clear line in a Thursday address between his administration’s support for Israel in its war against Hamas, tempered by criticism for the conflict's high number of civilian casualties, and the violence and illegal...
The judge handling former President Trump's hush money case clarified on Friday that Trump is allowed to testify during the trial, correcting the former president's assertion a day earlier that a gag order prevented him from doing so. Judge Juan Merchan at the start of Friday's proceedings in the case said it had come to...
