How Fast-Food Franchises Are Pushing Back on Newsom’s $20 Minimum Wage Law

Bill includes exemption for places that ‘produce’ bread. No one can agree on who qualifies. Gavin Newsom (Mario Tama/Getty Images) Fast-food industry insiders are disputing California Democratic governor Gavin Newsom’s claim that the bakery chain Panera Bread will have to comply with the state’s sweeping $20 minimum wage law for fast-food franchises, as the governor

Hamas-Sheltering Qatar Cashes In on Biden Natural Gas Pause

Qatar to expand natural gas production by 85 percent Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani addresses the U.N. in September 2023. (Adam Gray/Getty Images) President Joe Biden’s pause on liquefied natural gas production is already turning into a major financial windfall for Qatar, even as the Gulf regime undercuts the United States

Berkeley Opens Hate Crime Probe After Violent Protest Forces Israeli Speaker To Evacuate

‘No one from Berkeley has contacted me since,’ Ran Bar-Yoshafat said in wake of canceled speech Ran Bar-Yoshafat (Israel National News) The University of California, Berkeley, launched a hate crime probe in connection with a violent protest that saw demonstrators shut down an Israeli lawyer’s speech to campus Jewish groups, the school announced. The event,

WATCH: Supreme Court Unanimously Blocks Colorado From Disqualifying Trump, Shredding Media Fantasy

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that Colorado can’t remove former president Donald Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot, dashing the hopes of media pundits and liberal commentators who spent months claiming the case to disqualify the former president was a “slam dunk.” Even before the Colorado Supreme Court initially ruled in December

Democratic Socialists of America Tells Members To Oppose Biden, Accuses Israel of ‘Genocide’

The Democratic Socialists of America on Sunday encouraged its members to vote “Uncommitted” in the election cycle’s remaining Democratic primaries, unless President Joe Biden backs “a permanent, lasting ceasefire” in Israel. “Until this administration ends its support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and delivers a permanent, lasting ceasefire, Joe Biden will bear the responsibility for

UN Investigators Confirm Evidence of Hamas Sexual Violence

A United Nations report on Monday confirmed “clear and convincing” evidence of Hamas terrorists committing gang rape, genital mutilation, and other forms of sexual violence during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.  “There are reasonable grounds to believe that multiple incidents of sexual violence took place with victims being subjected to rape and/or gang rape