Sam Bankman–Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded, the last step in dramatic downfall of the former billionaire wunderkind and megadonor to the Democratic Party. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan handed down the sentence at a Manhattan
The Jewish Democratic Council of America is backing primary challengers to anti-Israel Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.) and Cori Bush (D., Mo.), marking the first time the group has endorsed against any Democratic incumbent. The council announced its support for pro-Israel Democrats George Latimer and Wesley Bell, who are running against Bowman and Bush, respectively,
HANITA, Israel—It’s been more than six months since Hamas terrorists rampaged through southern Israel, but here along the northern border, Oct. 7 never really ended. On Oct. 8, Hezbollah picked up where its ally and fellow Iran-backed terror group left off, launching a barrage of rockets, missiles, and artillery shells at Israel from Lebanon. While
US unemployment rate increased to two-year high in February Kamala Harris (Alex Wong/Getty Images) The White House is touting work from Vice President Kamala Harris to combat “economic insecurity” by creating hundreds of thousands of “high quality jobs”—in northern Central America. In a fact sheet released Monday, the White House provided an “update” on Harris’s
‘Our team has reviewed your content, and, unfortunately, we think it violates our violent criminal organizations policy,’ YouTube tells Free Beacon (Screenshot) YouTube removed a Washington Free Beacon video of a “Palestinian Resistance 101” event held at Columbia University, with the platform saying the video violates its policy that bars users from praising, promoting, or
Democrats slammed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he announced Nicole Shanahan as his presidential running mate on Tuesday, with lawmakers expressing worry that the pair’s campaign will siphon votes from President Joe Biden in his rematch this fall with Republican nominee Donald Trump. “I am personally offended and just disgusted by [Kennedy’s] campaign,” Rep. Robert
Susan Rosenberg is one of the country’s most notorious domestic terrorists. She landed on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list at age 29 and served in a women-led communist group that bombed the U.S. Senate chamber in 1983. Now, more than two decades after her controversial release from prison, she serves on the advisory board of