A New York jury found Daniel Penny not guilty for the death of Jordan Neely, a homeless Michael Jackson impersonator whom Penny put in a chokehold on a Manhattan subway car last year. After a seven-week trial that involved over 40 witnesses, the jury found Penny, a former Marine sergeant, not guilty of criminally negligent
‘In a protracted war, our defense industrial base does not have the resources it needs to win that war,’ lawmaker says (Sarah Myers/U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS) In a war with China, the United States would expend its stock of advanced missiles and bombs in less than a month—and run out of some critical weapons in
The top neuropsychology organizations in North America may soon adopt training guidelines that call on clinicians to use “social justice frameworks,” acknowledge “systemic oppression,” and pursue “equitable and just scientific knowledge,” according to a copy of the guidelines reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The guidelines are the product of two years of meetings between
After 13 years of civil war, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime has fallen. The stunning development further weakens a battered Iran, removing from the Middle East a longtime ally who helped Tehran expand its militant footprint. Assad was forced to flee Damascus on Sunday after Islamist opposition forces, including the U.S.-designated terror group Hayʼat Tahrir
The greatest presidential servants are those who are modest and self-effacing, whose sole purpose is to help the president succeed without regard to their own reputation or status. Speechwriters especially are meant to blend in with the background wallpaper, lending bold or reassuring colors to a president’s rhetoric depending on the circumstances, though more than
Hitler must be the most fascinating character of all time. He is good for thousands of books and learned articles, films, and documentaries—even children’s books like When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. The flow won’t abate, though 80 years have passed since Der Führer shot himself in the Reich Chancellery about to be overrun by the
The fall of ancient dynasties still shake the ground on which we walk, making Tsuyoshi Hasegawa’s The Last Tsar more relevant than one might think. The French Revolution spawned a critic, Edmund Burke, whose writings founded modern conservatism, as well as supporters such as Thomas Jefferson, who said of the bloody uprising, “Rather than it