In what can only be described as an apparent effort to erase trans people, the Oklahoma Athletic Commission issued a warning to pro wrestling promotion All-Elite Wrestling (AEW) that the promotion may face punitive sanctions after a transgender female had a match against a cisgender female.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has indicated to advisers he is keen on a new middle-class tax cut should he return to the White House, two people familiar with the discussions said, an initiative that could appeal to voters but could also worsen America's yawning budget deficit.
The Arkansas Legislative Audit this week wrapped up its investigation into the purchase of a $19,000 podium by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' administration.
Civics education will be expanded in Florida, including instruction about communist and totalitarian governments, and state universities will be prevented from quashing conservative ideology under bills Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Tuesday.
Hawaii's attorney general on Wednesday laid out a comprehensive timeline of the catastrophic Maui wildfires last year that killed 101 people, including details of flying embers carried by high winds, blinding, thick smoke and trapped first responders, all of which hampered efforts to combat the fires. The report, conducted by Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez and the Fire Safety Research Institute, used extensive data to show how a combination of environmental and geographical factors, along with preparedness and response conditions, enabled the fire to "rapidly intensify into an urban conflagration."
Tesla is again seeking to award boss Elon Musk the biggest pay deal in corporate American history, worth $56bn. The electrical vehicle (EV) company is asking shareholders to vote on its chief executive's record-breaking pay that was set in 2018. However, the deal was rejected by a US judge in January who described it as "an unfathomable sum". Read more
On the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief engineer of the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link, was sitting in his cabin 20 miles off Japan's eastern coast, completing the paperwork that comes at the end of every repair. Two weeks earlier, something -- you rarely knew what -- damaged the 13,000-mile fiber optic cable connecting Kitaibaraki, Japan, and Point Arena, California. Alarms went off; calls were made; and the next day, Hirai was sailing out of the port in Yokohama to fix it.
A Muslim University of Southern California valedictorian who was barred from giving a graduation speech said on Tuesday she is "not apologetic" for the anti-Israel views she expressed online, including calls to abolish the Jewish state. Read more
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"Uncle, are you listening?" she asks him. "You need to sign. If you don't sign, there's no way. I can't sign for you, it has to be you. What I can do, I do." "Sign it so you don't give me any more headaches, having to go to the registry office. I can't take it anymore," the woman continues. Read more
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden made a combined income of $619,976 last year, and Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband made $450,299, according to the couples' 2023 tax returns the White House released Monday.
Arizona Republicans celebrated Wednesday after swatting down Democrats' fourth attempt in two weeks to repeal the state's near-total abortion ban, which the state Supreme Court upheld last week.
FLEECING HIS SUPPORTERS is not enough for Donald Trump, who is now asking down-ballot 2024 Republican candidates to fork over a portion of their fundraising if they use his name and likeness in their campaign. According to Politico, the Trump campaign sent a letter to vendors informing them that "all candidates and committees who choose to use President Trump's name, image, and likeness split a minimum of 5% of all fundraising solicitations to Trump National Committee JFC." "Any split that is higher than 5% will be seen favorably by the RNC and President Trump's campaign and is routinely reported to the highest levels of leadership within both organizations," the letter added. Trump by no means lacks fundraising revenue, but he is spending mountains of cash on the slew of civil and criminal cases against him.
The Senate quickly dispensed with the two impeachment charges against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, convening a short-lived trial Wednesday that brought an end to a months-long effort to punish the secretary for his handling of the southern border. The Senate's 51-member Democratic majority voted to dismiss both charges as unconstitutional over the objections of Republican members. The entire proceeding lasted just three hours. Mayorkas became just the second Cabinet secretary in U.S. history to be impeached when the House charged him in February with "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" and a "breach of public trust." Democrats strongly opposed the impeachment effort, decrying it as a political stunt and saying the allegations constituted a policy disagreement that fell far short of the constitutional threshold for impeachment.
A North Carolina high school suspended a 16-year-old student last week for his use of the word "alien," documents reviewed by Crisis in the Classroom show. The student received a three-day out-of-school suspension after he requested clarification on a vocabulary assignment in which his teacher provided the term "alien," according to his mother, Leah McGhee. The assignment was purportedly part of an ethics lesson. The student was purportedly worried the suspension would weaken his chances of receiving a scholarship for pole vaulting. The student asked his teacher, "like, space aliens or aliens without green cards?" This prompted a classmate to threaten him, according to McGhee. Assistant Principal Eric Anderson allegedly claimed the comment was "racially insensitive" and disrespectful to Hispanic students.
The Chinese Embassy has held meetings with congressional staff to lobby against the legislation that would force a sale of TikTok, according to two of the Capitol Hill staffers. TikTok, which is owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, has repeatedly denied a relationship with the Chinese government and sought to distance itself from its Chinese origins. But now, with the fate of legislation to force the sale of the company facing an uncertain path forward in the Senate, the Chinese Embassy appears to be leveraging its political weight to protect the company's future in the United States. Read more
