(José Niño, Headline USA) A Harvard Law School professor has ignited a national debate over whether universities can legally exclude students who support Israel from campus life, arguing that anti-Zionism may constitute illegal discrimination under federal civil rights law.
Stephen E. Sachs, who holds the Antonin Scalia professorship at Harvard...
(José Niño, Headline USA) On Sunday, President Nicolás Maduro announced that Venezuela has captured alleged mercenaries with CIA ties, accusing the United States and Trinidad and Tobago of coordinating military exercises designed to provoke armed conflict in the Caribbean.
In a statement from Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, the socialist government...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) State prosecutors in Massachusetts arrested on Wednesday a top official in the Democratic Gov. Maura Healey's administration on drug trafficking charges after he allegedly ordered cocaine delivered to his government office.
The official, LaMar Cook, served as deputy director in Healey’s Western Massachusetts office, directly overseeing constituent...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.'s 88-year-old congressional delegate, claims to sit on multiple boards at prestigious institutions, but investigations reveal she hasn't been active with them in years. Some of these positions no longer even exist according to a report by Luke Goldstein and Dan...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former Special Counsel Jack Smith unsuccessfully subpoenaed the phone records of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as part of his unprecedented effort to target allies of President Donald Trump after the 2020 election.
The subpoena targeted Cruz’s phone provider, AT&T, which refused to comply with the order over concerns that...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter-point on Wednesday for the second time this year, not nearly as much as President Donald Trump wants the central bank to reduce rates.
The move lowers the Fed's benchmark short-term interest rate to a range between...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter-point on Wednesday for the second time this year, not nearly as much as President Donald Trump wants the central bank to reduce rates.
The move lowers the Fed's benchmark short-term interest rate to a range between...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Economists told the U.S. Supreme Court that President Donald Trump's plan to reduce U.S. trade deficits will backfire, exacerbating the underlying issue the president used to justify the sweeping tariffs.
The economists filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that Trump's trade policies won't address the trade...
Amnesty International, a human rights organization, condemned U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific that have killed 57 people since September.
(Headline USA) U.S. lawmakers have tried four times since September last year to close what they called a glaring loophole: China is getting around export bans on the sale of powerful American AI chips by renting them through U.S. cloud services instead.
But the proposals prompted a flurry of activity...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Wednesday called out Israel for its heavy bombardment in Gaza and the killing of dozens of children in the Strip.
“Israel’s military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was back on in Gaza after it killed 104 people, including 46 children, according...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) California Gov. Gavin Newsom used a crude remark Monday to mock Indiana Gov. Mike Braun’s recent calls for a legislative session to consider redistricting measures, a move President Donald Trump has recently urged GOP-led states to pursue.
Newsom responded directly to Braun’s press statement, writing on X:...