Biden says “nothing is beyond our reach” during bilateral with Mexico’s President

President Biden said he “couldn’t have a better partner” than Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a bilateral meeting between the two leaders on Friday. The pair were meeting in San Francisco with border security, migration and fentanyl trafficking topping their agenda. “You’ve heard me say it before: nothing is beyond our reach in my […]

3 Ivy Leagues among schools facing federal antisemitism, Islamaphobia investigation

Three Ivy League universities—Cornell, Columbia and Penn—are among seven schools being investigated by the Department of Education following complaints of alleged incidents of antisemitism and Islamaphobia. Altogether, the Department of Ed is looking into five cases of antisemitism and two cases of Islamaphobia. The schools under scrutiny include not just colleges and universities but one […]

House Ethics Chair introduces George Santos expulsion resolution

House Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest (R-MS) on Friday morning introduced a resolution to expel embattled freshman Rep. George Santos (R-NY). Guest had vowed Thursday to introduce the resolution following a scathing report from a special legislative subcommittee on Santos’ behavior while running for office in 2022.  The a 56-page report, which can be read here, […]

Flow of U.N. aid to Gaza hindered by communications blackout

The United Nations said Friday that it had been forced to stop deliveries of food and other supplies to Gaza as a communications blackout was hindering aid coordination. The U.N. further warned that the collapse of internet and phone services due to a lack of fuel could aggravate the possibility of widespread starvation in the […]

Mistrial declared in case of ex-officer charged in Breonna Taylor’s fatal shooting

U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings declared a mistrial Thursday in the federal trial of former Louisville, Kentucky police officer Brett Hankison after a jury told her it was deadlocked. Hankison was facing federal civil rights charges related to Taylor’s death. Taylor was killed in a case of mistaken identity in a botched police raid […]

Biden to meet with Mexico’s President in San Francisco

President Biden was set to meet Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in San Francisco on Friday, where the two leaders were expected to talk about migration, fentanyl trafficking and Cuba.   Biden has been in San Francisco for the past three days, where he’s been joining other world leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation […]

Supreme Court blocks Florida’s drag show ban during appeal

The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would not allow Florida to enforce a law targeting drag shows while a court case on the state’s proposed ban goes forward. The Justices declined to narrow a lower court’s order prohibiting the statewide ban. Their ruling came after a panel on the 11th Circuit Court of appeals […]

Georgia election workers seek tens of millions from Giuliani for defamation

Former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss will seek between $15.5 million and $43 million from Rudy Giuliani for defamation, according to court documents filed this week. Giulani was found liable for defaming the pair back in August after he admitted on the record that he had lied about them. In […]

David DePape found guilty of attack on Paul Pelosi

A federal jury found David DePape guilty in last year’s violent attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Prosecutors successfully argued that 43-year-old DePape assaulted then-82-year-old Pelosi in the early morning hours October 28, 2022 in the couple’s California home. The attack with a hammer left Pelosi with a fractured […]

UAW members ratify deal with GM despite some resistance

United Auto Workers (UAW) members who work for General Motors ratified the union’s deal with the automaker Thursday despite some resistance in pockets of the country.  The UAW posted results of the voting on Thursday morning, with support from 54.7% of the nearly 36,000 autoworkers at GM who voted. The deal had come under doubt on […]

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