The Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University (CILRU) was vandalized early Wednesday morning in an incident university police said they are investigating as a "bias crime." The vandalism took place on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr at the New Jersey university’s Muslim Chaplaincy house, according to CILRU’s statement posted Wednesday on Facebook. CILRU...
The World Resources Institute estimates that up to 10 gigatons of carbon must be removed from the atmosphere each year by 2050 to reach the targets outlined in the Paris Agreement.
Elon Musk said Thursday that the House has launched an inquiry into his company's work in Brazil after the tech mogul claimed he refused to comply with illegal demands from Brazilian leaders that he ban members of parliament and journalists from his social media platform X. Musk announced Wednesday that X has “received an inquiry...
The central question Congress should be asking itself is, “What can be done to reconnect with the people and earn their respect by addressing some of our nation’s most pressing problems?”
The Tennessee state Senate approved a measure Tuesday that would allow teachers and staff in K-12 public schools to carry concealed handguns on school grounds. SB 1325 was approved 26-5 by state senators during a raucous floor vote, where The Associated Press reported protesters opposing the bill were heard shouting, “No more silence, end gun violence”...
A front of severe thunderstorms is set to batter eastern Ohio and West Virginia on Thursday, after it demolished homes and flooded streets near New Orleans and parts of Mississippi overnight. The storms have already killed at least one person in Mississippi, with forecasters warning of the possibility of tornadoes and hail as the front...
Former President Trump took a shot at NPR after an editor at the outlet openly blasted the public broadcaster, accusing it of bias. "NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO “DAMAGE TRUMP," the former president wrote this week on his Truth Social website....
The Biden campaign launched a new ad Thursday aimed at Arizona voters after the state's Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law that made performing abortion a felony earlier this week. The ad features President Biden speaking directly to voters about the risk former President Trump poses to abortion access for millions of women. "The question is —...
San Francisco is showing other cities how to recover: First the politics need to change, then the policies change, then you start to see progress on the ground.
A CNN legal analyst said Wednesday he would “beg” former President Trump to not testify in his New York hush money trial that is slated to begin next week. Elie Honig told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “The Lead” Wednesday that the attorneys for Trump should keep the former president from testifying during the hush...
The Republican Party may think that they can use Florida and Arizona as a testing ground for their nationwide abortion ban, but they have underestimated the power of the American people.
President Biden’s support amount Black voters in seven swing states has dipped when compared to the last election cycle, a recent survey found. The Wall Street Journal compared the results of its poll released last week to the AP VoteCast poll in 2020 that surveyed a large part of the electorate. The Journal’s survey of...
More than a decade into the opioid epidemic, trends in pediatric poisonings, Narcan administrations to infants, and child fatalities continue to signal a crisis for children.
Former national security adviser John Bolton revealed he will write in former Vice President Dick Cheney for president in November — for the second time. “Well, I might as well say it now. I voted for Dick Cheney," Bolton told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Wednesday on “The Source,” when asked who he wrote in for president...
National civil rights attorney Ben Crump has penned a 7-figure deal with Bantam Books to write a series of crime novels centered on a Black civil rights attorney. The series will follow Beau Lee Cooper, a Black civil rights attorney — not unlike Crump — who will “tackle cases of corruption and injustice while celebrating...
Former President Trump is facing a do-or-die moment in his effort to delay the start of his first criminal trial with his choice of punting tactics dwindling in the days leading up to his day in court in New York. The former president has vigorously fought to stave off his criminal trials until after Election...
Senate Democrats are pushing back against calls for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step aside from the Supreme Court after left-wing activists and commentators raised the idea in the hopes of avoiding a repeat of what happened after the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing four years ago. Sotomayor, 69, is the oldest of the three...
The walls are closing in around Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under immense pressure from the U.S. to avoid a civilian catastrophe in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, but is under threat from far-right members of his coalition, who want a decisive offensive against Hamas in its final stronghold. Netanyahu has projected strength...
President Biden is facing deepening political trouble as criticism of Israel's assault on Gaza grows more widespread and a possible invasion of Rafah looms. Discontent with Biden’s substantive support for Israel has spread across the Democratic Party, even as the president has toughened his rhetoric criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At the same time,...
Finance JPMorgan Chase hired Venture Government Strategies to lobby on a range of issues related to tax, budget, banking, securities, housing and financial services. Former Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kansas) will work on the account. Dentons also registered to lobby on these issues for JPMorgan Chase. Former Reps. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) and Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) will...
Mpox cases have been elevated since October, with an average of roughly 200 monthly cases detected per month, spurring efforts to avoid a summer surge like what was seen in 2022. Recent numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed a startling difference between the first quarter of 2023 and 2024, with...
An Arizona Supreme Court decision imposing a near-total abortion ban is likely to have a massive impact on the politics of the state and shows there's no safe position for Republicans to take on abortion. One day after former President Trump sought to neutralize the issue by saying abortion should be decided by states...
The Biden administration is putting $830 million toward helping protect bridges, roads, ports and other infrastructure from extreme weather disasters fueled by climate change. The $830 million in grants from the Transportation Department will support 80 projects in 37 states, Washington, D.C. and the Virgin Islands. Most of the funding, $621 million, will go toward...
The Justice Department announced Thursday it has submitted a final rule to the federal register that would close the so-called “gun show loophole,” a significant step in the Biden administration’s efforts to curb gun violence and better regulate gun sales. The rule, which was first proposed last August, changes the definition of firearm sellers who...
Thursday’s three-way summit between President Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishidan and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is sending a message to China: You’re the odd man out. The meeting, the first time the three leaders have convened together, marks a more aggressive bid by the United States and its partners to isolate China as Beijing seeks to...