Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Al Jazeera is to be shut down in Israel. Mr Netanyahu accused the Qatari-owned network of “incitement” and said the cabinet decision had been unanimous. Al Jazeera condemned the move as “criminal”. Foreign journalists are banned from entering Gaza and Al Jazeera staff there have been some […]
Category: Domestic
$500 monthly given out to combat “toxic stress”
Some residents in Tacoma, Washington, are set to earn $500 monthly payments through a no-strings-attached guaranteed program. The Growing Resilience in Tacoma (GRIT) program was announced in 2020 by Mayor Victoria Woodards as a way to support low-income families during their time of need. “This project is designed to demonstrate that this type of cash […]
1000’s of Sea Lions invade San Francisco pier
The echoes of barking and blubber-slapping have grown louder in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf. An unusually large herd of sea lions hauled out of the bay waters to hang out on the docks at Pier 39, a popular tourist destination. It’s the most sea lions the area has seen in 15 years, according to pier […]
Young Dems warn Biden he must change course
Young Democratic voters are sounding the alarm and warning President Biden that his reelection bid could be in jeopardy if he doesn’t change course on the issues that matter most to them, including the war in Gaza. While they have soured on Biden on a range of issues from cost of living to climate issues, […]
Ukraine war “Unlikely to end anytime soon”
Russia is making “incremental progress” in Ukraine “with the potential for tactical breakthroughs along the front lines in areas such as Donetsk and Kharkiv,” Avril Haines, director of national intelligence, told Congress on Thursday, and that has Russian President Vladimir Putin thinking “domestic and the international trends are in his favor.” Testifying before the Senate […]
Wuhan DR Peter Daszak grilled by Congress
The appearance of virology researcher Peter Daszak, PhD, whose organization worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to study bat coronaviruses, drew the expected tough questions from House Republicans at a hearing Wednesday, but Democrats weren’t letting Daszak off the hook either. “Today we’ll hear from both sides that there are serious concerns about […]
Dems ‘ride the fence’ on campus crackdowns
Senate Democrats in tough races are calling on college and university presidents to crack down on campus protests that have spun out of control, as images of protesters smashing windows and unfurling Palestinian flags are becoming a political problem for President Biden and his allies. But leading progressives are defending students’ rights to protest and […]
Denver’s neighbors say enough is enough
A hard no. That’s the message several counties around the Denver metro area delivered to Colorado’s capital city after it welcomed more than 41,424 illegal immigrants in less than two years. They view Denver, a city of 710,000 residents that has spent an estimated $120 million taking care of the border crossers, as a cautionary […]
Biden wants to immigrate Gaza Palestinians to US
The Biden administration is considering welcoming certain Palestinians to the U.S. as refugees as they seek to escape war-torn Gaza amid the ongoing war in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas. Senior officials across several federal U.S. agencies have discussed in recent weeks the details of potential options to accept Palestinians from Gaza who […]
Anti-Israel protests turn violent at UCLA
Police in riot gear swept onto the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, early Wednesday, hours after New York City police retook control of an administrative building at Columbia University as opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza continued to roll through universities across the nation. Video posted on social media showed counterdemonstrators battering […]
Inside Biden’s flight program for migrants
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data is revealing the more than 45 cities in the U.S. that hundreds of thousands of migrants have flown into via a controversial parole program for four nationalities — with the vast majority entering the U.S. via airports in Florida. During an eight-month period from January through August 2023, roughly […]
Columbia University protestors take over Hall
Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses nationwide. Video footage showed protesters on Columbia’s Manhattan campus locking arms in […]