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CNN’s Jake Tapper asked President Joe Biden Tuesday about potential criminal charges hitting his son Hunter, and the president responded with nothing but love and admiration for whom he once called the “smartest man” he knows. Last week, it was reported that federal prosecutors gathered enough evidence “months ago” to charge Hunter Biden with multiple crimes related to taxes and lying to investigators about a gun purchase, according to The Washington Post. Tapper asked Biden how he reacts to the news about his son “personally and politically.” “Well first of all, I’m proud of my son,” the president began. “This...

On Monday, October 3, 2022, the Supreme Court struck down another unconstitutional infringement on the right to keep and bear arms, restoring more Second Amendment rights. The Court granted the writ of certiorari. Then it vacated the existing opinion by the lower court. Then it sent the case back to the First Circuit Court of Appeals to be reheard in light of the Second Amendment decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.The case is Morin, Alfred V. Lyver, William, et al. From the Supreme Court.gov:21-1160 MORIN, ALFRED V. LYVER, WILLIAM, ET AL. The petition for a...

A key barometer of inflation on Wednesday showed prices paid to U.S. businesses rose more than expected in September, dashing hopes that the Federal Reserve might be able to take a softer approach to restoring price stability. The producer price index, which tracks prices paid to U.S. businesses for the goods and services they produce, rose 0.4 percent in September, the Department of Labor said. That was twice the monthly gain expected by forecasters. On a 12-month basis, prices are up 8.5 percent. That’s one-tenth of a point more than what economists surveyed by Econoday expected. The index fell by...

Wholesale prices rose more than expected in September despite Federal Reserve efforts to control inflation, according to a report Wednesday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The producer price index, a measure of prices that U.S. businesses get for the goods and services they produce, increased 0.4% for the month, compared to the Dow Jones estimate for a 0.2% gain. On a 12-month basis, PPI rose 8.5%, which was a slight deceleration from the 8.7% in August.

Students at religious schools across the country walked out of class Tuesday to demand widespread changes be made to how LGBTQ people are treated at religious universities and high schools. Tuesday’s walkouts at more than 50 schools were organized by the Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP) and the Black Menaces, a group of five Black students at Brigham Young University (BYU) whose viral TikTok videos show their mostly white peers often struggling to answer questions about race and identity. ... The walkouts coincide with National Coming Out Day, celebrated each year on Oct. 11, the anniversary of the National March...

The legal industry, and the law academy in particular, are in a high state of contention concerning one of their most protected traditions: the Law School Admission Test, or LSAT. The American Bar Association (ABA) that regulates our law-school industry is thinking of doing away with it. This exam is among the most heavily weighted student-applicant ranking methods for law schools and among the most feared and coveted competitive hurdles for law-school aspirants. It is irrelevant. Well, at least to those factions that want it removed as a requirement. They include a number of special interests, mostly in government, that...

Amazon employees at an important distribution hub in Joliet walked off the job Tuesday, calling attention to their demands for higher pay and new workplace safety rules. The walkout by some employees on the day shift was timed to disrupt the retailer’s operations during its Prime Day promotion, which lasts Tuesday and Wednesday. It was part of a national pressure campaign, supported by pro-labor groups, that included job actions near Atlanta and a walkout planned Friday in San Bernardino, California. Organizers said more than 600 workers in Joliet signed a petition demanding that the company raise base hourly wages to...

Moscow’s deadly air assault on Ukrainian cities has ramped up pressure on Western nations to rush air defense systems to the embattled country, but it is still unlikely to receive one of the world’s most effective tools against incoming projectiles. Israel’s Iron Dome air defense, which boasts a 90 percent success rate against rockets fired against it, will stay out of Ukraine’s reach, said experts, as Jerusalem seeks to maintain strategic relations with Russia in Syria and other hot spots.

After kids complained that their superintendent in a New York school district crowd surfed on them and smelled of alcohol during a Friday homecoming game, the superintendent was placed on administrative leave. Jason Thomson, the superintendent of the Baldwinsville Central School District, was detained on Friday after pupils informed the school resource officer (SRO) that he “smelled of alcohol,” according to a press release from the Baldwinsville Police Department. Having failed both a field sobriety test and a breathalyzer, Thompson, who was hired in 2021, was detained on his way home.

Paris Hilton has claimed she was sexually abused after being forced to undergo cervical exams performed by staff members in the early hours of the morning while attending a Utah boarding school for troubled teens in the 1990s. The reality star, 41, said her childhood was 'stolen' by the alleged abuse at Provo Canyon School where she spent 11 months when she was 17 years old. Speaking to the New York Times, Paris, who has campaigned to regulate 'troubled teen centers' since initially going public in 2020 with alleged physical and mental abuse incidents at the school in 2020, said...

President Joe Biden acknowledged Tuesday that there may be a “slight recession” looming, saying the U.S. economy may “move down slightly.” CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Biden in an interview if “the American people should prepare for a recession,” given the rising gas prices and predictions from JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who said in August there are economic “storm clouds” on the horizon. “I don’t think there will be a recession, and if there is, it’ll be a slight recession, that is, we’ll move down slightly,” Biden told Tapper. The president has repeatedly said he doesn’t think there will...

President Biden believes Nury Martinez and other councilmembers should resign from the Los Angeles City Council over racist remarks heard in leaked recordings that were made public this week, a White House spokesperson said Tuesday.

Russian authorities are mobilizing men from the country’s most vulnerable groups to send to the front in Ukraine, the independent Mediazona news website reported Tuesday. In Moscow, security officers have taken men to military enlistment centers from charity centers for the homeless and needy as well as hostels where labor migrants live, Mediazona reported. The Food Not Bombs group, which hands out food to Moscow’s homeless community, told Mediazona that it has seen dozens of homeless men taken off the street and brought to military enlistment offices in the weeks since President Vladimir Putin declared a “partial” mobilization. “The police...

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Just when you start to think the FBI couldn’t be exposed as any more corrupt, another revelation drops and ups the ante. That happened on Tuesday after a new report showed that the FBI wasn’t content with just following the facts as they had them prior to the 2016 election. While it’s long been known that the bureau was desperately searching for something to stop Donald Trump’s election, things apparently went much further than just mining badly sourced intelligence. According to the report, which is based on testimony from Igor Danchenko’s ongoing trial, the FBI attempted to pay Christopher Steele...

111 Aubrie Spady Tue, October 11, 2022 at 7:00 PM·2 min read In this article: Joe Lombardo American law enforcement officer Steve Sisolak American businessman and politician Gov. Steve Sisolak, D-Nev., lost an endorsement from a top teachers union in his race for re-election for not sufficiently addressing educational issues, and the announcement comes after several recent polls show him falling behind Republican challenger Joe Lombardo in the Nevada governor's race. The Clark County Education Association (CCEA) announced that after interviewing both gubernatorial candidates, they will not be making any endorsements for this year's election, despite endorsing Sisolak in the...

Two FBI agents whose communications with Meta resulted in the social media company’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story were donors of the Democratic Party, records show. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, told Joe Rogan in late August that the company actively reduced the reach of social media posts about the laptop of Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, adding that the move was in response to a general advisory from the FBI for Facebook staffers to be vigilant for Russian propaganda before the election. Laura...

Max Boot can rest easy. In no time at all, General Patrick J. Donahoe will have a chance to truly let his liberal freak flag fly, as no doubt he will. Noted Drag Queen enthusiast, Iraq war warmonger, and NeverTrumper, Max Boot, attacked me by name in the failing Washington Post last week. He called me a “random . . . troll,” “MAGA extremist,” and part of the “far-right forces trying to subvert American democracy.” Based. Truly, it is an honor to be insulted by a man so utterly wrong about everything. I am disturbed only by the fact that...

On September 7, Margaret Marsilla called Joshua Tepper, the doctor who planned to kill her son. Marsilla is 46, and she lives outside Toronto with her husband and daughter, a nursing student. She had known that her 23-year-old son, Kiano Vafaeian, was depressed—he was diabetic and had lost his vision in one eye, and he didn’t have a job or girlfriend or much of a future—and Marsilla asked her daughter to log onto Kiano’s account. (Kiano had given his sister access so she could help him with his email.) He never shared anything with his mother—what he was thinking, where...