A GoFundMe page was set up — and then removed — by the family of one of the men charged in the deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade last week. The mother of alleged gunman Lyndell Mays said she created the fundraiser to cover her son’s medical bills during this “tragic […]
A date has been set for former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial — right in the thick of primary season. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said Thursday that the criminal trial will begin on March 25. Trump is accused of paying former porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about an […]
Donald Trump’s hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25, a New York judge ruled Thursday, turning aside demands for a delay from the former president’s defense lawyers. The decision sets the stage for a case centered on years-old accusations that Trump sought to bury stories about extramarital affairs […]
It speaks volumes that you pretty much can’t find what GLAAD stands for on the actual GLAAD website. Nominally an acronym for “Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation” (a term GLAAD has since ditched) the LGBT advocacy group now does far, far more than defend against defamation. In an ironic twist, GLAAD now shames (stopping […]
A National Labor Relations Board regional official ruled on Monday that Dartmouth basketball players are employees of the school, clearing the way for an election that would create the first-ever labor union for NCAA athletes. All 15 members of the Dartmouth men’s basketball team signed a petition in September asking to join Local 560 of […]
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has broken the world record for the most cumulative time spent in space, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos reported Sunday. The 59-year-old has now spent more than 878 days and 12 hours in space, surpassing fellow Russian Gennady Padalka, who set the previous record of 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes, and […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said a Supreme Court decision on Monday is hardly the end of his state’s fight to line the banks of the Rio Grande with concertina wire as part of its battle against illegal immigration. On Monday, the 5-4 court gave the Biden administration a victory and threw out an injunction granted […]
As is often the case at these sorts of award shows, the 75th Emmy Awards featured a healthy number of winners and therefore an even bigger number of losers. Despite that, one loser appears to stand head and shoulders above the other losers — and it couldn’t be a more fitting show. The wildly popular […]
Private institutions of higher learning love cash donations, much of which comes from private investors. To fall out of favor with these investors is to risk being cut off. It’s always been this way, but never more so among Ivy League institutions than today. Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of […]
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