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If Chris Christie decides to seek the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2024, he might not be able to rely on his home state for support, a new poll suggests. Christie, who ran for president in 2016 and served two terms as New Jersey’s governor before being ousted by term limits, faces a 64% unfavorable rating from voters in his home state, according to a Monmouth University poll that was released Tuesday. “Christie left a lasting impression on New Jersey. Nearly every New Jerseyan still has an opinion of him,” Patrick Murray, director of the university’s independent poll institute, said...

srael’s Embassy in China is protesting what it describes as “blatant anti-Semitism” on a program run by the overseas channel of state broadcaster CCTV discussing the ongoing violence in Gaza and elsewhere. In a tweet, the embassy said “we have hoped that the times of the ‘Jew’s controlling the world’ conspiracy theories were over, unfortunately anti-Semitism has shown its ugly face again.” […] On the Tuesday CGTN broadcast, host Zheng Junfeng questioned whether U.S. support for Israel was truly based on shared democratic values, saying “some people believe that U.S. pro-Israeli policy is traceable to the influence of wealthy Jews...

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced late on Tuesday night that her office is no longer pursuing just a civil case against the Trump Organization and that the matter has now evolved into an active “criminal” investigation. “James’ office is working with Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s Office, whose wide-sweeping probe into the Trump Organization has looked into whether the company misled lenders and insurance companies about the value of properties and whether it paid the appropriate taxes,” CNN reported. “For the past two years, James’ office looked into matters including whether or not it improperly inflated assets on...

Facebook shut down a pro-Israel page that reportedly had millions of followers as the worst conflict in years continued in the Gaza Strip. “Jerusalem Prayer Group” founder Mike Evans claimed that critics targeted the site by posting “more than a million” comments then reporting they had never posted to the site, CBN reported. “There was an organized attempt by radical Islamic organizations to achieve this objective,” Evans was quoted as saying. “It was a very clever, deceptive plan by Islamic radicals.”

When Denmark became the first European country last month to revoke residence status for more than 200 Syrian refugees, it faced condemnation from EU lawmakers, the UN refugee agency and human rights groups. Authorities in Copenhagen argue that parts of Syria are now safe enough for refugees to return. But the issue has proved divisive and activists and community groups have planned protests in several cities on Wednesday in support of the refugees. For a country with a liberal reputation, Denmark has become known for repeatedly tightening its immigration policies in recent years. In a separate move, it recently signed...

<p>ISLAMABAD: A mob attacked a police station in the capital on Monday night in an attempt to lynch a man detained on a charge of blasphemy.</p><p>Senior police officers told Dawn that dozens of villagers wielding batons and iron rods attacked the Golra police station, asking the police for the custody of the suspect held for investigation into a complaint lodged against him on a blasphemy charge.</p>

President Joe Biden was slammed after joking about running over a journalist who wanted to ask him a thorny question about Israel. While test-driving the Ford F-150 Lightning at the carmaker's factory in Dearborn, Michigan, Biden pulled up alongside a group of reporters to show off his driving skills. 'Mr. President, can I ask you a quick question on Israel before you drive away since it's so important?' a reporter asked.

The decision to grant no addition relief by 13th Circuit Court Judge Kevin Elsenheimer, made during a Zoom hearing, marks another loss for former President Donald Trump and his allies, who claim votes were intentionally switched in the November contest but have been roundly defeated in court cases around the country. Attorney Matthew DePerno and his client, Antrim County resident William Bailey, initially sued over a local marijuana retailer proposal, but have expanded it since then, including seeking an audit of the 2020 contest. But the judge said an audit appears to have already been done so "pursuant to authority."...

The Kirschbaum family of Beit Shemesh have had a horrific whirlwind of a week, as they sat shiva for their teenage son, one of the 45 people killed in the Meron tragedy. While this is enough to have them processing for years, however, they simply don’t have the time. Because right now, they are worried about their 6-year-old Michali. Michali has had liver cancer since she was a baby and has spent much of her life in hospitals. Recently doctors urged the Kirschbaums to leave Israel immediately and to fly to Pittsburgh for their daughter to have a full liver...

BLM, GLAAD Join 40 Progressive Groups Calling for Fox News Ad Boycott (Exclusive) "The advertisers that choose to recommit to Fox News will end up being the ones to pay the reputational price," Media Matters president Angelo Carusone says

State Treasurer Kimberly Yee is hoping to ride the same political path as the current governor. In a video release Monday, Yee announced she wants to be the Republican nominee for the state’s top executive post in 2022. But Yee, the first Asian-American elected to Arizona statewide office, provided little in the way of actual details of what she intends to do. Instead, her video twice mentioned her loyalty to Donald Trump and his border and economic policies and lashed out at, among others, the “corrupt press” which is attacking our way of life.

Black Lives Matter says it stands with Hamas terrorists in Israeli conflict The battle between Israel and Hamas militants had killed at least 12 Israelis and 213 Palestinians as of Tuesday The leading Black Lives Matter organization declared "solidarity with Palestinians" Monday, a week after Hamas terrorists in Gaza began firing a relentless barrage of rockets into Israel, indiscriminately shelling civilian targets as well as dropping some missiles short and blowing up buildings within its territory.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration approved the potential sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to Israel, and congressional sources said on Monday that U.S. lawmakers were not expected to object to the deal despite violence between Israel and Palestinian militants.Three congressional aides said Congress was officially notified of the intended commercial sale on May 5, as part of the regular review process before major foreign weapons sales agreements can go ahead.The sale was first reported by the Washington Post.

In the infamous case of Kelo v. City of New London, the Supreme Court allowed the city of New London, Connecticut to take Susette Kelo’s little pink house (also the name of a very good movie about the case) via eminent domain for the “public use” of furthering economic development in the town’s Fort Trumbull neighborhood. The fight in that case was over the meaning of the words “public use” in the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, and whether the words provide essentially any limit on what a municipality or legislature says is “public use.” In Kelo, one of the major...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Fully vaccinated people no longer have to wear masks, but some people are still choosing to wear one in public places which has caused some uncomfortable situations. At the beginning of the pandemic, people were shamed for wearing masks, now the tables seem to have turned and when people aren’t wearing a mask they get some looks. “Most people have them, and then there are some without them, and those people kind of just stand out,” said Andres Ramirez, a customer at Walmart. As more New Mexicans continue to get vaccinated, many people KRQE News 13...

IN a shocking video, a mom was dragged out of a Little Caesars by her hair and stamped on in front of her child while screaming "my baby." The brutal attack occurred at the popular pizza chain on Monday in Augusta, Georgia. According to Augusta Crime, the suspect Brittany Kennedy attacked victim Emily Broadwater. The video shows Kennedy pulling Broadwater by her hair out of the establishment while she screams and attempts to fight back. Once outside, Kennedy stomps on and punches Broadwater's face and head. When she manages to stand up, Broadwater's face is bloodied and she screams "my...

Readers have been briefed on the ongoing semiconductor shortage that may last a “couple of years.” The auto industry has grabbed the spotlight as the hardest-hit industry, with some of the world’s biggest manufacturers restricting production. According to a new report, the worldwide chip shortage is impacting the agriculture industry that may last for a couple of years and has already impacted the price of potato chips. Hoosier Ag Today reports, “The biggest factor impacting the ability of US farmers to produce the food we need has nothing to do with the weather, the markets, trade, regulations, or disease. The...

We’ve learned a lot about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the last year and a half but we have little evidence on its origin. The origin story for Covid-19 is profoundly important if we are to understand the virus and how it works. That, in turn, could prevent the next pandemic. Animals have been transmitting their diseases to humans since we began to domesticate them — about 11,000 years ago. So when many reputable scientists tell us that the coronavirus probably originated in bats and was transmitted to humans in some unknown way, it makes perfect sense. But there was no...

Hunter Biden and his business partners were involved in discussions about possible deals in dozens of foreign countries, often corrupt backwaters, at times invoking official channels like ambassadors, emails reviewed by The Daily Wire show. While most attention has focused on Ukraine, where a gas company paid the now-president’s son tens of thousands of dollars a month while he was in deep crack addiction, and China, Hunter and his partners at a consultancy called Rosemont Seneca were eager to do business in a vast array of other places. The map above highlights the countries where deals were discussed or executed,...