An Arizona high school biology teacher had his last week of teaching after becoming exasperated with his students’ constant smartphone usage in the classroom. Sahuaro High School’s Mitchell Rutherford spoke to a local Tucson NBC affiliate early last week, saying that he has done everything he can to try and get his students to break […]
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Israeli Air-Strike On Rafah kills dozens
At least 45 people have been killed, including women and children, in an Israeli air strike on a camp for displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the Hamas-run health ministry says.Videos from the scene in the Tal al-Sultan area on Sunday night showed a large explosion and intense fires burning.The Israel Defense […]
Does anyone really care about the Trump trial?
It had all the promise of an only-in-America blockbuster trial, brimming with salacious detail and a former president in the dock.In fact, it’s hard to imagine a bigger courtroom drama, tailor-made for the media, than one that stars Donald Trump, once the world’s most powerful figure and someone vying to be so again, forced to […]
WH Staff changes history with blunder edits
While President Joe Biden is known for his blunders and colorful turns of phrase, his staffers increasingly are correcting his words after the fact via strikethroughs in the White House transcript. The written record of a May 19 campaign speech in Detroit includes no less than nine corrections, a few of which created mini-news cycles […]
Israeli activists blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza
The war in Gaza is being fought on many fronts.One of them is aid.Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing, the battle has moved to other key junctions, where rival groups of activists do their best to block or protect aid convoys.In recent weeks, […]
Progressive DAs are losing big on west coast
Progressive prosecutors are under siege all along the West Coast, as voters in deep-blue metro areas express their frustration with more lenient approaches to crime. The trend started with the 2022 recall ouster of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, which criminal justice reformers once labeled a pandemic-induced anomaly unlikely to repeat in other liberal-leaning […]
SCOTUS member in hot water over ‘Appeal flag’
An obscure Revolutionary War-era flag emblazoned with a pine tree has drawn renewed attention amid reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew the “Appeal to Heaven” flag above his New Jersey beach house in the past year. The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, also known as the “Pine Tree Flag,” features a rudimentary evergreen tree […]
Trump rally in Bronx draws 25,000 supporters
Former President Trump has broken political norms by visiting one of the most deep-blue areas in New York City, a town not necessarily known for its kindness to Republicans. Trump rallied a crowd of what his campaign estimated to be 25,000 supporters at Crotona Park in the Bronx on Thursday, far more than the initial […]
Congress to vote on Digital Currency law
This week, the House of Representatives will vote on legislation sponsored by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) called the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act. The bill is relatively straightforward, but in sum would stop the Fed from issuing any form of CBDC without congressional approval. The legislation is expected to pass in the House, where […]
Trump to hold rally in Dem stronghold The Bronx
Former President Donald Trump will campaign in one of the most Democratic counties in the nation Thursday, holding a rally in the South Bronx to woo minority voters days before a Manhattan jury will begin deliberations on whether to convict him of felony charges in his criminal hush money trial. Trump will address supporters in […]
Millennial employees ‘vacation’ while at work
Picture this: you’re lounging on the beach, waves crashing in the background, drink in hand, and…laptop open. This is what more and more millennials are doing as they embrace what is being called “quiet vacationing,” a new take on “quiet quitting” that sees young professionals subtly take time away from work without telling their employer. […]
Russia preparing for battlefield nuclear weapons
Russian troops began practicing major exercises to ensure troops’ readiness for the potential deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield, as Moscow warned against an encroaching threat from Western allies. The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video Tuesday of troops practicing affixing missiles and warheads onto fighter jets and on the backs of […]