White House responds to French lawmaker demanding the return of the Statue of Liberty White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back at a French lawmaker who demanded the United States return the Statue of Liberty to France. “My advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because
President Donald Trump on Monday warned Iran that the United States will hold it responsible for any further attacks by the Yemen-based Houthis, accusing the Islamic Republic of “dictating every move” by the terrorist group. “Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from
In December 2023, months before Columbia University student activists took over Hamilton Hall, a group of them “ran riot” through the campus building and “scrawled obscene graffiti, including swastikas,” a school janitor alleged in a federal discrimination complaint. Columbia did not investigate the ordeal because the swastikas were considered “free speech” and were “written in
CNN’s March 16 poll showed record-low favorability for the Democratic Party MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews said Monday that the Democratic Party faces record-low favorability “because nobody checks the facts anymore.” “What do you make of these numbers for the Democrats?” Morning Joe cohost Mika Brzezinski asked Matthews, pointing to a March 16 CNN poll that
Chuck Schumer’s vote with Republicans to prevent a government shutdown is ‘unacceptable,’ Nancy Pelosi says Chuck Schumer (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) has postponed all promotional events this week for his upcoming book, Antisemitism in America: A Warning, as Democrats protest his decision to vote with Republicans to prevent a
Shalom, Columbia: The Ivy League institution is $30 million poorer after the Trump administration on Friday slashed additional grants to the university from the Department of Health and Human Services, Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson reports. The cuts hit, among others, Jeanine D’Armiento, the chairwoman of the University Senate Executive Committee who has
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, appointed to the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel under Joe Biden, has a long history of radical positions. Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein delivers a TED talk (TED/YouTube) A professor of physics and gender studies who has argued that “white empiricism” undermines Einstein’s theory of general relativity now sits on a top physics advisory panel