WHITEWATER, Wis.—The migrants began to trickle into Whitewater, a sleepy town of 15,000 an hour west of Milwaukee, toward the end of 2021. Prior to their arrival, local news and political debates generally revolved around school fundraisers or the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s D3 athletics. Today, residents are focused on their 1,000 new neighbors, who mostly
During a Jan. 5 interview with socialist podcast Revolutionary Left Radio, Islamic scholar Mohamed Abdou declared his support for Hamas and “the resistance.” The terror group’s “dedicated few,” he said admiringly, worked in “stealth mode” on Oct. 7 to defeat a “larger enemy” in Israel. Just days later, on Jan. 16, Columbia University’s Middle East
Critics of CBDCs are concerned they could allow new levels of government interference in people’s finances. A group of GOP Senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) have introduced legislation to ban Central Bank digital currencies (CBDC) from being implemented without approval from Congress first. CBDCs are a digital form of a country’s currency, such
The Senate Republican leader says shutting down the government is harmful to the country. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber are “not going to allow the government to shut down.” He made the comment to reporters before entering the Senate chamber at the start of
Through various investments, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo hopes the United States can become a global leader in the microchip industry. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo believes America could become a key player in the global microchip industry by the decade’s end. In a Feb. 26 speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think
Former President Donald Trump asked a judge to enter a series of pretrial rulings in one of his cases, including blocking testimony from certain witnesses. Former President Donald Trump has asked the judge in his so-called “hush money” case to issue pretrial rulings that would block certain evidence and witness testimony that the former president
Democrat-led chambers dump proposed plan, opt to craft a bluer map over GOP objections and despite the certainty of legal challenges. The Democrat-dominated New York Legislature has rejected in super-majority votes an independent commission’s court-ordered congressional district map. It now has only days to adopt a new one without throwing the state’s 2024 election schedule