The U.S. Justice Department on Monday rebuffed demands by Republicans in the House of Representatives to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interviews with a special counsel whose report questioning Biden’s memory set off a political firestorm. Special Counsel Robert Hur angered House Republicans by deciding not to pursue criminal charges against Biden for retaining classified
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced the Israel Defense Forces will follow through with its planned invasion of Gaza’s Rafah and that the date of the operation has been chosen. “We are constantly working to achieve our goals, first and foremost, the release of all our hostages and achieving a complete victory over
A Gallup poll released on Monday shows Americans are less interested in buying electric vehicles than they were last year, even amid the Biden administration’s efforts to crack down on gas-powered vehicles. Nearly half—48 percent—of Americans in 2024 said they would not consider purchasing an electric vehicle, a 7 percentage point increase from last year.
The Biden administration on Monday unveiled a new student loan forgiveness plan aimed at offering relief to more than 30 million borrowers. The new plan would cancel up to $20,000 of accrued interest for every borrower regardless of income, with complete forgiveness of outstanding interest for low- and middle-income borrowers participating in an income-driven repayment
An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon early on Monday killed a field commander in the heavily armed Lebanese group Hezbollah, as the United Nations warned that shelling was spreading and urged a halt to the violence. Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been exchanging fire across Lebanon’s southern frontier in parallel with the Gaza war, adding to
Bowman celebrated an anti-Semite and cop-killers on ‘wall of honor’ Jamaal Bowman speaks at a 2018 AERO Conference (Alternative Education Resource/YouTube) As a middle school principal, New York Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman advised against teaching about “white” historical figures like George Washington, Jesus Christ, and Santa Claus. Instead, he used his position to elevate a
Miles Davis’s 1959 album Kind of Blue is the best-selling instrumental jazz album of all time. As the music-buying public is rightly suspicious of jazz, that makes Kind of Blue the kind of jazz that people who don’t like jazz can stand. This was not what Davis had in mind when he convened a six-piece