Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters have clashed at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as demonstrations over the war in Gaza continue across US campuses. Nationwide rallies – during which there have been hundreds of arrests – showed no sign of stopping over the weekend. At UCLA “physical altercations broke out” after a barrier separating […]
Category: Domestic
American retirement is facing extinction
The dream of retiring after 60 is slowly dying among Americans, with one in four workers aged 50 and above who haven’t yet left the workforce believing they’ll never retire, according to a recent survey. The main issue emerging from the latest American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Financial Security Trend Survey conducted by the […]
‘Bidenomics’ slogan scrapped by Biden campaign
Last June, in what the White House envisioned would be a turning-point speech in Chicago, President Joe Biden introduced a new slogan aimed at selling an economic revival. The mantra was “Bidenomics.” And on this day, the word was plastered everywhere: flanking Biden on massive blue signs as he talked up an improving economy, across […]
Biden to limit college campus speeches this yr
Amid growing protests on college campuses by pro-Palestinian demonstrators, the White House is planning for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to have a minimal presence for a traditional rite of spring: delivering commencement addresses. Biden is scheduled to speak at Morehouse College and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in May, […]
Biden’s quest to imprison Trump before election
The first of Donald Trump’s criminal trials kicked off in earnest this week in New York. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has charged Trump with 34 felony counts, alleging that he falsified records to cover up a ‘hush money’ payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. It’s an unprecedented case. Never before has a former US […]
Young Democrat Elites are out of touch
For some of the young college students arrested after trespassing at Columbia University last week, it was not their first brush with the law. One young woman from a $2.2 million home in suburban Atlanta had previously killed two senior citizens in Vermont when her pickup truck crossed over a double yellow line, crashing into […]
US Births at lowest rate since 1979
U.S. births fell last year, resuming a long national slide. A little under 3.6 million babies were born in 2023, according to provisional statistics released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s about 76,000 fewer than the year before and the lowest one-year tally since 1979. U.S. births were slipping for more […]
China warns US of ‘Downward Spiral” in relations
Chinese leader Xi Jinping said the US and China should be “partners rather than adversaries” as he met with top American diplomat Antony Blinken in Beijing’s cavernous Great Hall of the People on Friday. The meeting, which took place on the final day of Blinken’s three–day visit to China, comes as the two countries seek […]
SCOTUS to consider Trump immunity claim
The Supreme Court will convene Thursday to consider whether former President Donald Trump is entitled to broad immunity from federal prosecution, jumping into a blockbuster dispute that will be critical to the fate of his 2020 election case in Washington, D.C. At issue in the case known as Trump v. United States is whether the […]
Court overturns Weinstein 2020 rape conviction
The New York Court of Appeals overturned disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein‘s 2020 conviction in the Empire State on sexual assault charges. The court ruled 4-3 that the judge had made “egregious errors” with how the trial was conducted and ruled that a new trial may be held. We conclude that the trial court erroneously […]
Russia threatens attacks on France & Poland
An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with guests on state TV the possibility of Russia attacking two members of the NATO military alliance. State TV host Vladimir Solovyov, one of the most-prominent figures in Kremlin-backed media, made the comments on channel Russia-1. A video of the discussion was shared on X, formerly Twitter, […]
Senate passes $95 billion Natonal security bill
The White House issued a press release Tuesday night announcing that President Joe Biden would sign the National Security package bill that passed the Senate, into law on Wednesday. “Tonight, a bipartisan majority in the Senate joined the House to answer history’s call at this critical inflection point,” Biden said. “Congress has passed my legislation […]