Hamas Official Says ‘No One Has an Idea’ How Many Hostages Still Alive

A high-ranking Hamas official and negotiator for the terrorist group said “no one has an idea” about how many of the over 250 hostages taken from Israel on October 7 are still alive. “I don’t have any idea about that,” the official, Osama Hamdan, told CNN during an interview in Beirut, Lebanon, when asked about

Oakland Reparations Committee Wants $5 Million From Taxpayers—Just To Come Up With a Plan

Committee created in 2023 with a $51,000 budget (Fibonacci Blue/Wikimedia Commons) A California Bay Area committee appointed to design racism reparations for black residents wants two years and $5 million just to write a plan. The reparations panel for Alameda County, whose largest city is Oakland, made this demand late last month, San Francisco’s NPR

Alaska Dems Alter Platform To Remove Support for Oil and Gas and Call for ‘Rapid Transition to Renewable Energy’

Oil and gas production generates the large majority of the state’s revenue The Oil Pipeline in the interior of Alaska. (Gillfoto/Wikimedia commons) The Alaska Democratic Party overhauled its party platform during its recent convention, inserting language in support of aggressive climate policies and rescinding its support for the state’s vital fossil fuel industry, which generates

No Haven for Hamas

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s eighth trip to the Middle East since the terrorist atrocities of October 7, 2023, has gone about as well as the previous seven. That is to say: Not well at all. Blinken went to the region to pressure Israel and Hamas into accepting President Biden’s latest ceasefire proposal for the

AOC Decried Growing Anti-Semitism on the Left. Days Earlier, She Requested $1.5 Million Earmark for Legal Group Accused of Hostility to Jews

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) denounced the rise of anti-Semitism in the progressive movement at an event with liberal Jewish leaders on Monday. Weeks earlier, the “Squad” member requested $1.5 million in taxpayer funds for a New York City law group accused of hostility towards Jews and Israel. Ocasio-Cortez requested an earmark on May 17

Biden Judicial Nominee Said Child Predator Had ‘a Lot of Good in Him’

Maine Superior Court judge Julia Lipez suspended sentence of man convicted at trial of sexually abusing two girls Judge Julia Lipez and convict Michael T. Smith (@libsoftiktok/X) One of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees suspended a child sex predator’s sentence and said the convict had “a lot of good in him” during a court hearing