New Jersey Democrat helped gun-toting staffer bypass security before embarking on anti-Trump filibuster Cory Booker (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) A staffer for Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) was arrested Monday for carrying a firearm on Capitol grounds without a license after bypassing security with the senator’s help. “Yesterday afternoon a Member of Congress led an IDed
‘Long live the student intifada!’ Momodou Taal says in statement announcing exit from US Cornell student Momodou Taal addresses fellow protesters (Cornell Daily Sun/YouTube) A Cornell University graduate student who had his visa revoked after pledging his allegiance to the “armed resistance in Palestine” has self-deported after a federal court twice rejected his request for
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that she is directing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the accused murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. “Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson—an innocent man and father of two young children—was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America,” Bondi said in a statement. “After
The 2028 presidential hopeful recently teamed up with Beto O’Rourke, loser of three consecutive elections Tim Walz (Instagram) Tim Walz is trying to make a comeback after losing the 2024 election, but he can’t shake the stench of failure emanating from his Midwestern dad body. The Minnesota governor, best known for being briefly adored by
Equity in space: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory let go nearly 900 workers last year due to budget cuts. The layoffs impacted both technical and support staff at the lab, which creates land rovers that have reached Mars. They did not impact the lab’s chief inclusion officer, Neela Rajendra. She is best known for arguing that
Over the course of 2024, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off nearly 900 workers due to budget cuts at the agency. The cuts, which came amid delays on the Mars Sample Return program, a mission to collect dust and rocks from the red planet, reduced the lab’s headcount by 13 percent and impacted both technical
New acting president faces uncertainty over concessions her predecessor made to Trump admin Claire Shipman (Alex Wong/Getty Images) In her first public message as Columbia University’s acting president, Claire Shipman offered a vague promise to “build on” the “plan outlined to move our community forward” amid the Ivy League school’s ongoing battle with the Trump