Chicago also under pressure as Fitch cautions about ‘management ineffectiveness’ Zohran Mamdani speaks to members of the media at a Brooklyn library on December 17, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) March 13, 2026 image/svg+xml A mostly obscure and widely derided sector of the financial industry—bond rating agencies—may be one of
When George Soros spends millions of dollars to elect soft-on-crime prosecutors in many of the United States’ biggest cities, much of that money ends up in the hands of a single Manhattan-based communications firm that’s boosted prosecutors’ campaigns. Campaign finance records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show that the PACs Soros uses to fund
Prisoners convicted on terrorism charges are ineligible for sentence-reducing credits, according to the Bureau of Prisons L: Mohamed Bailor Jalloh (Facebook) R: Old Dominion University logo (odu.edu) The gunman behind the deadly attack at Old Dominion University was released early from federal prison after completing a drug treatment program, even though his terrorism conviction would
The U.S. military has eliminated Iran’s “entire ballistic missile production capacity” in just under two weeks of intensive operations, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told reporters on Friday, adding that “every company that builds every component of those missiles has been functionally defeated.” “We’re shooting down and destroying what missiles they still have in stock,
Biden-era regulations would have meant ‘fewer operations’ and ‘longer wait times for life-changing procedures,’ Medical Device Manufacturers Association had warned Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The Trump EPA is moving to rescind Biden-era regulations that cracked down on the health industry’s use of ethylene oxide, a colorless gas used to
The essay was published in an offshoot of Slow Factory, a nonprofit that shared pro-Oct. 7 posts that Rama Duwaji liked L: Rama Duwaji (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images) R: Susan Abulhawa (Democracy Now!/TikTok) Rama Duwaji, the first lady of New York City, provided a featured illustration for an essay by an author who called Hamas’s
‘Authorization for this event was initially obtained through the withholding of key information,’ a UTS spokeswoman said L: Mohamed Abdou (mei.columbia.edu) R: Union Theological Seminary banner (utsnyc.edu) Union Theological Seminary, a Columbia University affiliate, said an event featuring Mohamed Abdou—a self-described “activist-scholar” who was banned from teaching at Columbia—could not proceed on its premises in