In the worst violence since the 2014 hostilities between Palestinians and Israelis, Israel on Sunday and Monday launched ferocious air attacks on Gaza, which responded with rocket fire. As of Tuesday afternoon, Riyad Mansour, who represents the Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and not the Hamas party, told the media at U.N. headquarters in New York […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — The government of Afghanistan has rejected recent media reports stating that Washington may push Kabul to postpone the country’s upcoming presidential elections in order to advance negotiations with the Taliban. The first hints of such a deal came from a Wall Street Journal report that said the Trump administration was looking at […]
In a sensible world, Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill would have nothing whatsoever to do with the Affordable Care Act. On its surface, Bethune-Hill is a racial gerrymandering case which, the Supreme Court announced on Tuesday, will be heard by the Court for the second time. Yet Bethune-Hill also presents a difficult issue regarding when non-parties to a […]
Fueled by climate change, biblical fires are raging at both ends of California. The death toll in the fire that incinerated the city of Paradise hit 42, making it the most lethal fire in state history. “Unfortunately, the best science is telling us that dryness, warmth, drought, all those things, they’re going to intensify,” explained […]
California’s two largest electric utility companies are under investigation again for their role in starting major wildfires in the state. But the companies are probably less worried about how the devastating fires could impact their finances after state lawmakers passed legislation earlier this year to protect the companies and their shareholders from full financial liability. […]
President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to remove Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen from her post, according to The Washington Post. Current and former White House officials familiar with the matter told the Post that her dismissal is likely to occur as early as next week. Immigration hardliner John Kelly handpicked Nielsen as […]
The British far-right activist Tommy Robinson has not been granted a U.S. visa in time to appear before a group of Republican lawmakers later this week. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, was the founder of the far-right English Defense League, as well as the anti-Islamic movement Pegida. He has a string of […]
President Trump unleashed a new round of Twitter rage Tuesday morning, this time aimed at French President Emmanuel Macron, whom he visited in Paris over Veterans’ Day weekend. In one tweet, the president appears to mock France for having been invaded by Nazi Germany some 80 years ago. “Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army […]
A couple of weeks ago, members of the Women’s Cross Country team at Rowan University were running grueling 5:30 mile repeats on the track, when the coach of the football team approached their coach and told them that they needed to cover up. You see, some of the women on the team were practicing in […]
If the 2018 midterm election had a marquee, top-of-the-ticket match-up, one contender would have to be the Senate race in the Lone Star State, which pitted incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz against Rep. Beto O’Rourke. And it’s still, on some level, hard to believe this was the case. Taking Texas blue is the perennially unrealized […]
