Republican Voters Against Trump, a political group seeking to block former President Trump from taking back the White House, released an ad Tuesday suggesting that with his four criminal indictments, Trump could not even get a job at a local shopping mall. The six-figure ad campaign used hidden-camera footage of a man going to several...
In his campaign to block a Houston-area guaranteed basic income program, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is betting that third time’s the charm. On Tuesday, Paxton’s office filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court of Texas, calling on justices to block Harris County’s basic income program, Uplift Harris. “Harris County officials cannot continue...
Demonstrators, who claim to be exercising the right of academic free expression deprived tens of thousands of Columbia University students and faculty of the academic freedom to enter their classrooms.
The daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said she and others were sprayed with "chemical weapons" while protesting the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza at Columbia University. Isra Hirsi, 21, told MSNBC on Monday she believes there is "some hypocrisy" in the way the university is punishing the pro-Palestinian demonstrators, when compared to the treatment of...
More than two-thirds of electricity distribution circuits in the Golden State will require capacity upgrades by 2045 in order to meet electric vehicle (EV) demands, a new study has found. California must add 25 gigawatts to its capacity by that point — a shift that will cost between $6 billion and $20 billion, according to...
Social platform X is planning to roll out an application for users on smart TVs, the company's chief executive said Tuesday. "Soon we’ll bring real-time, engaging content to your smart TVs with the X TV App," Linda Yaccarino, X's CEO, wrote on the platform. "This will be your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment...
American students need to get back to China. U.S. policymakers can help them by increasing opportunities and funding to do so. Whether or not policymakers see eye-to-eye on China policy, all should be able to agree that America cannot deal with China effectively unless Americans gain a better understanding of the country.
GOP senators sent a letter to Biden administration officials Tuesday demanding they “restore order” to college campuses amid contentious pro-Palestine protests. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and 26 other Senate Republicans sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Attorney General Merrick Garland telling them to “restore order to campuses that have been effectively shut...
MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos predicted there is a “decent chance” that former President Trump will testify during his hush money trial that kicked off in Manhattan last week. “I happen to think, and I'm sure I'm in the minority, there is a decent chance that Donald Trump will testify,” Cevallos told MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart...
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona released a statement Tuesday condemning Columbia University as bipartisan concerns about antisemitism on campus have risen. “Antisemitic hate on college campuses is unacceptable. I am deeply concerned by what is happening at Columbia University,” Cardona said in a post on X. Columbia is almost a week into the “Gaza Solidarity...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) announced Tuesday the state’s efforts to make half of all state agencies run on solar power. The Pennsylvania Project to Utilize Light and Solar Energy (PA PULSE), plans to get the state of Pennsylvania to have 50 percent of its electricity from ten new solar plants around the state. The...
Former President Trump brushed off warnings he could be charged for keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence, promising to pardon one of his now co-defendants if charges were filed, according to new court documents. The details, laid out in unsealed documents as part of a broader legal battle in the Mar-a-Lago case, lay bare the candid...
Hundreds of people who use Grindr — a dating and social networking app for the gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community — have filed a lawsuit claiming the company monetized sensitive information such as HIV status without users' consent. In the suit, which was filed in the U.K., the plaintiffs alleged Grindr disclosed user information...
A federal judge has struck down a North Carolina law criminalizing voting for people with felony convictions. The law, originally passed in 1877, made it a Class I felony for people who vote in North Carolina without having their rights restored. But on Monday, U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs wrote that the law “was enacted with discriminatory...
A Minnesota state senator has been charged with first-degree burglary after being arrested in the city of Detroit Lakes early Monday morning. Democratic state Sen. Nicole Mitchell, 49, was arrested at a residence after police responded to a 911 call at about 4:45 a.m. Monday, Detroit Lakes Police Chief Steven Todd told The Hill. Mitchell was...
The White House on Tuesday announced a new goal to protect millions of miles of wetlands, rivers and streams. As the White House hosts a “water summit,” it announced it wants to set a new national goal to protect 8 million acres of wetlands and 100,000 miles of rivers and streams. The quantities of water...
A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with a federal hate crime after allegedly breaking into and destroying property at the Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University (CILRU), federal prosecutors announced Monday. Jacob Beacher, 24, was arrested Monday morning in connection with an incident that took place earlier this month during Eid-al-Fitr, the...
Nina Jankowicz, the former Department of Homeland Security disinformation chief, has joined a nonprofit to combat disinformation ahead of the 2024 election and as artificial intelligence (AI) is on the rise. Jankowicz joined the American Sunlight Project and sent a letter to congressional leaders who have “done little to improve the health of our information...
David Zaslav, the media executive who heads Warner Bros. Discovery, made almost $50 million in 2023, per recent financial disclosures from the publicly traded company. Zaslav's base salary was $3 million last year, but he made more than $47 million in stock awards and incentive compensation, the company revealed as part of its executive compensation...
To be sure, all of the scenarios are very unlikely, but all of them are at least possible. And given how bizarre this election has been so far, you can’t rule anything out.
Jon Stewart blasted the media for covering the “banal” details of former President Trump’s first of four criminal trials, which began with opening statements Monday following a week of jury selection. In his Monday night broadcast of “The Daily Show,” Stewart poked fun at the TV news media for tracking Trump’s traffic route from Trump...
Former President Trump on Tuesday blasted a wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses over the Israel-Hamas war, calling them a "disgrace to our country" and laying the blame on President Biden. "What's going on at the college level and the colleges — Columbia, NYU and others — is a disgrace," Trump said as he...
Columbia University's main campus will shift to hybrid learning for the reminder of the semester amid ongoing pro-Palestinian protests, the school announced Monday. "Safety is our highest priority as we strive to support our students’ learning and all the required academic operations," school Provost Angela V. Olinto and Chief Operating Officer Cas Holloway said in...
An ex-aide to Melania Trump is slamming the former first lady's launch of a jewelry line just as her husband's criminal trial is kicking off, calling it "not a very good look." "I try not to laugh at the thought that she would be raising money for his defense," Stephanie Grisham, who worked for the...
U.S. v. Navarro has the potential to be a landmark case of “first impressions” involving unsettled questions ideal for Supreme Court review.