The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday with broad bipartisan support passed a $95 billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The legislation now proceeds to the Democratic-held Senate, which passed a similar measure more than two months ago. The Senate is expected to pass the measure next week, sending it
‘We do not feel safe walking to nor around campus’ Pro-Palestine students at Columbia (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Columbia University students are calling on the school’s president, Minouche Shafik, to restore order as chaotic protests and violent clashes near campus plague the Ivy League institution. Columbia students wrote in a Friday letter that they do not feel safe
Sue Altman now says ‘the border is a crisis’—but blames Republicans Sue Altman (Facebook) Before she ran for Congress, Sue Altman (D., N.J.) wanted illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded COVID relief funds. Now, Altman says it’s Republicans’ fault that the border crisis—which has exploded during President Joe Biden’s administration—hasn’t been solved. Altman, the presumptive Democratic
The Biden administration on Friday dealt another blow to the U.S. oil industry by declaring millions of acres in Alaska off limits to new oil drilling. The Department of the Interior announced on Friday that it will prohibit any new oil drilling project in the U.S. Arctic Ocean as well as on 11 million acres
Democratic Rep. Summer Lee (Pa.) this week accepted an endorsement from a left-wing group that has called to free one of Pennsylvania’s most notorious cop killers from prison and hails another as a “freedom fighter.” Lee, a member of the progressive “Squad,” spoke at an online event with 1HoodPower, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit that seeks “liberation
Dean of Students Mona Dugo at rally where protesters said school ‘weaponizes anti-Semitism to silence pro-Palestinian activism’ Northwestern dean of students Mona Dugo (Northwestern) The dean of students at Northwestern University attended an anti-Israel protest this week targeting Hillel, the school’s Jewish student community center, to defend the demonstrators’ “right to free speech.” Dean of
A man set himself on fire on Friday outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump’s historic hush-money trial was taking place, witnesses said. A witness on the scene said he first heard the man throwing pamphlets into the air, then saw him douse himself from a can and light himself on fire. “At that