The Senate voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense on Friday following a tough confirmation battle in which Democrats and the media badgered him with personal attacks. Hegseth, a former Army National Guard officer and Fox News host, won confirmation with a 51 to 50 vote. Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking
JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Friday that Israeli troops will remain in Lebanon beyond the 60-day deadline set by the ceasefire deal with Hezbollah. Netanyahu’s office said Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon was “conditioned on the Lebanese Army deploying in southern Lebanon and fully and effectively enforcing the agreement.” Under the ceasefire, the Lebanese
The companies who hired him for ‘diversity audits’ could face legal jeopardy Getty Images President Donald Trump has taken significant action through executive orders to dismantle the diversity, equity, and inclusion complex that has taken hold in federal departments and in much of corporate America. For example, he instructed the federal government to investigate private
Exoneration comes as Trump administration targets universities, DEI officials MSU College of Education dean Jerlando Jackson (msu.edu) Michigan State University has dismissed plagiarism allegations against the dean of its College of Education, Jerlando Jackson, claiming he was “the target of racist, vile, and despicable attacks.” The university said this month that a “preliminary assessment” did
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration shut down a highly trained, all-volunteer team of certified firefighters in early 2024—a move that rendered the California National Guard incapable of sending a complete firefighting force to Los Angeles until 10 days after the deadly fires broke out in the city, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Launched in
Maryland cases were part of climate activists’ efforts to bankrupt oil companies Offshore oil and gas platform in the Pacific Ocean (Mario Tama/Getty Images) A Maryland judge dismissed two landmark lawsuits that accused some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies of causing climate change—a massive defeat for climate activists and Democrats who have
The best and worst movies of 2024 L: Mikey Madison in ‘Anora’ R: Karla Sofía Gascón in ‘Emilia Perez’ (IMDb) The Oscar race is, it seems, coming down to a contest between what is unquestionably the worst movie of 2024—Emilia Perez—and what might be the best movie of 2024. That would be Anora, an uncategorizable