Re'Kwon Smith, 27, is accused of brawling with the Valley High School student on Thursday when he asked the teen, who allegedly shouted out a racial slur, to leave the classroom, according to 8NewsNow. The altercation turned physical when the student allegedly placed his hands on Smith. Read more
Eiswert was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. He received various threats of violence. A police report said one person told him the "world would be a better place if you were on the other side of the dirt." All along, Eiswert denied making the offensive remarks. He said that wasn't his voice on the recording. He believed it was an AI deepfake. And on Thursday, law-enforcement authorities announced they believe he was right. Read more
Under Trump, college kids accused of sexual assault were given the right to defend themselves. With his update of Title IX, Biden has taken it away. Last Friday, the Biden administration followed through on a promise: to roll back civil rights for college students accused of sexual misconduct. The new regulations come under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. Set to go into effect in August, they will restore some of the worst excesses introduced when Biden was vice president under Obama. One of the most concerning is the return of the "single-investigator" model that was barred under Trump. This means "one administrator can act as detective, prosecutor, judge, and jury on a Title IX complaint."
Donald Trump has been caught again staging a fake labor union event. Before Donald Trump appeared to be greeted by members of the North American Building Trade Union, a union that has endorsed Biden, before appearing in court in New York. It turns out that a number of MAGA activists were posing as union members including Vish Burra, former chief of staff of the disgraced George Santos. Fraudsters of a feather flock together.
Reaching for an example of her unflinching preparedness to do anything "difficult, messy and ugly" if it needs to be done, Kristi Noem landed on a chilling example: the time she killed her pet dog, Cricket, in an execution-style gravel pit slaying. Read more
"A former president," Donald Trump's lawyer D. John Sauer said, "has permanent criminal immunity for his official acts, unless he was first impeached and convicted" in Congress. It's also the opposite of what the Republican's lawyers said during Trump's second impeachment trial. In other words, Team Trump effectively argued in 2021, "Congress should leave such matters to the courts." It's now arguing, "The matter can't be left to the courts because Congress needs to act."
It's legal in Wyoming to chase coyotes and run over them with snowmobiles, but recently, a man used his snowmobile to run down a wolf until it was disabled. Then he taped the wolf's mouth shut and paraded the animal around a local bar, taking photos to commemorate the event. Finally, he killed the wolf.
In 1952, as a Republican candidate for vice-president, Richard Nixon famously stirred criticism by admitting receiving a dog, Checkers, as a political gift. In 2012, as the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a dog, Seamus, to the roof of the family car for a cross-country trip. But in 2024 Kristi Noem, a strong contender to be named running mate to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has managed to go one further " by admitting killing her dog. Read more
Donald Trump on Thursday claimed the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was "nothing" compared to ongoing pro-Palestinian campus protests, the latest instance in which he has downplayed a racist incident that was one of the most criticized moments of his presidency. Speaking in a Manhattan courtroom hallway at the day's end of his criminal hush money trial, Trump blamed President Joe Biden for student protesters who have set up encampments as they call for a cease-fire in the war Israel launched after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. Biden has recently, as he often does, publicly brought up the Charlottesville rally that sparked his decision to run against Trump in 2020, where torch-wielding white supremacists marched to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, chanting "You will not replace us!" and "Jews will not replace us!" Read more
Zack Scrivner, the Kern County Supervisor, is under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting his pre-teen daughter, as stated by Sheriff Donny Youngblood during a press conference on Thursday. Scrivner, a Republican, is currently the Supervisor of Kern County and a long-time friend of former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Deputies dispatched to the scene discovered Scrivner had already been disarmed and had sustained two stab wounds in a physical altercation with his children, sparked by the assault allegations. Thirty guns, electronic devices, and psychedelic mushrooms were seized from Scrivner's residence, leading to forensic examinations to determine potential influence.
There's a new Linux distro on the scene today, and it's a bit specialized. Its development was led by the automotive electronics supplier Elektrobit, and it's the first open source OS that complies with the automotive industry's functional safety requirements.
The majority of young people support a permanent ceasefire. However, of the 16 issues polled, "Israel/Palestine" ranked as the 15th most important compared to the others " only viewed as more important than student debt. Read more
A Ukrainian fighting force known as the "Georgian Legion" trolled MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in the best way on X Wednesday. Greene posted a video of a nightclub in Ukraine, perpetuating the right-wing conspiracy theory that the war in Ukraine isn't actually happening. Responding to Greene's assertion that "Ukraine is BOOMING!" and that in "most countries who are under attack, bars and restaurants shut down," the Georgian Legion invited Greene on a special all-access tour of the battlefield. Rupert Murdoch's New York Post recently trolled Greene with a cover picture of the MAGA Congresswoman wearing a Soviet-style sable hat with the headline "NYET MOSCOW MARJORIE."
Feminism made the error of telling us to behave and think like men. This error was a grave one, and women like myself are paying for it, like gamblers in a casino that has been fixed. We are not men, and in living the single life, with its casual encounters, we play for much higher stakes and have more to lose. I wish I had not been taught to throw the dice so high. Even Shakespeare's princes needed someone to look after them in their old age.
A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders. Al-Hayya did not say whether his apparent embrace of a two-state solution would amount to an end to the Palestinian conflict with Israel or an interim step toward the group's stated goal of destroying Israel. Read more
The White House is seizing on remarks by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that former President Donald Trump was resistant to accepting any bipartisan compromise to toughen border security laws.
