As Trump Administration Moves To Void Settlement With Small Business, Documents Shed Light on Kafkaesque Nightmare to Which it Was Subjected

In November 2024, the Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) fined Townstone Financial, a small mortgage company in Chicago, Ill., $105,000 for statements the company’s owner had made about crime in the city. The police “are the only ones between that [area] turning into a real war zone and keeping it kind of where

ABC News Quietly Removes All Four Reporter Bylines From Piece That Referred to Israel’s ‘Occupation Forces’

ABC also removed the phrase, which Hamas uses in reference to the IDF, but did not mention doing so in an editor’s note Israeli military moves near Lebanese border, Nov. 2023 (Amir Levy/Getty Images) ABC News has quietly removed the bylines of four reporters from a controversial piece that initially contained a false report accusing

FLASHBACK: Jasmine Crockett Attacked Byron Donalds for Interracial Marriage: ‘You Married a White Woman’

Crockett did not respond to a request for comment on her assessment of Kamala Harris’s marriage to white man Doug Emhoff Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) once attacked Rep. Byron Donalds (R., Fla.) for having a white wife, saying Donalds “married a white woman and so you think that whitewashed you.” It’s unclear whether Crockett believes Kamala Harris

Is Change Really Coming to Columbia? Katrina Armstrong’s Answer Depends on Who’s Asking.

A master class in doublespeak: On Friday, Columbia’s interim president Katrina Armstrong presented a memo to the Trump administration committing to reform the school’s policies on masked protests, disciplinary procedures, and more. She sent a different message to angry faculty members over the weekend. Armstrong, according to a transcript of the meeting, said there would

Jasmine Crockett ‘Liked’ Posts Calling Abbott ‘Hot Wheels’ in 2021, Undercutting Her Explanation for Deriding Wheelchair-Bound Governor

Crockett claimed ‘hot wheels’ label for disabled governor referred to the busing policy, which began in 2022 Jasmine Crockett speaks during rally against Elon Musk (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn) Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) “liked” Facebook comments referring to wheelchair-bound Texas governor Greg Abbott as “hot wheels” in 2021—a year before he started busing

Pamphlets in Columbia Library Teach Students How To ‘Stop ICE,’ ‘Shut Out The Police’

The anarchist group behind the handouts also authored instructions used to clog university toilets with cement in January Pro-Palestinian protesters in front of Butler Library at Columbia University (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Pamphlets outlining how to “build a culture of resistance against” Immigration and Customs Enforcement were available in Columbia’s main library Monday night, the

Columbia Activists, Including Mahmoud Khalil, Serve as Hamas’s ‘Propaganda Arm in New York City,’ Lawsuit States

Columbia University student groups and activists, including Mahmoud Khalil and the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) organization he represents, serve as “Hamas’ propaganda arm in New York City and on the Columbia University campus” and should be held accountable “for aiding and abetting Hamas’ continuing acts of international terrorism,” according to a new lawsuit. The