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Federal Judge Aileen Cannon announced an updated schedule for the forthcoming trial of former President Donald Trump in the case dealing with his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House and granted a continuance that will push the trial's start to May 20, 2024. Responding to the government's motion seeking a continuance, Judge Cannon agreed to grant the motion in part after finding that "the interests of justice served by this continuance outweigh the best interest of the public and Defendants in a speedy trial." The Trump document trial was initially scheduled to begin on August 14...

Two years ago chief diversity officers were some of the hottest hires into executive ranks. Now, they increasingly feel left out in the cold. Companies including Netflix, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have recently said that high-profile diversity, equity and inclusion executives will be leaving their jobs. Thousands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off since last year, and some companies are scaling back racial justice commitments. Diversity, equity and inclusion—or DEI—jobs were put in the crosshairs after many companies started re-examining their executive ranks during the tech sector’s shake out last fall. Some chief diversity officers say their work...

Just months after a Biden-appointed regulator teased a ban on gas stoves, the administration is working to enact a rule that would prohibit the manufacturing of nearly all portable gas generators on the U.S. market. A proposed Consumer Product Safety Commission rule limits the amount of carbon monoxide a product can emit, with the commission admitting that 95 percent of portable gas generators on the market cannot comply with its new standard. As a result, industry leaders say, the rule will prompt widespread generator shortages, as manufacturers only have six months to design generators that meet the proposed regulation. That...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.” Matthew 12:1–2When Moses gave the Ten Commandments to the people, there was a prohibition against working on the Sabbath. The Third Commandment said, in part, that “you shall not do any work” on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10). By the time of Jesus, the Pharisees had added much commentary...

It’s legacy media hysteria time again: news outlets from The Washington Post to The Atlantic hyperventilate about what they spin as the latest scandale. Presidential candidate RFK Jr made comments at a dinner about ethnically targeted bioweapons. Mainstream media commentators claim that these comments are in themselves anti-Semitic.Some articles are going back in time, cherry-picking remarks RFK Jr has made in the past about the Holocaust, and about other aspects of historic totalitarianism, to strengthen the case for imprinting the “Anti-Semite” label forever on Mr Kennedy’s candidacy and campaign. With the (now AI-driven) global smear campaign in full mode, we...

Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) defended censorship, arguing that certain views should not enjoy the First Amendment free speech protections, which they said were limited by the Supreme Court. The ranking member of the minority on the House Weaponization Subcommittee attacked presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy for his views on COVID-19 affecting certain race groups, calling them hateful. “This is not the free speech that I know of,” she said, recalling RFK’s comments. Plaskett continued: “Free speech is not an absolute,” Stacey Plaskett declared disregarding the fundamentals of the First Amendment. “The Supreme Court has stated that.” (The Court has not...

VIDEOI remember air travel when I was a kid as an extremely pleasurable experience. On one air trip I travelled to the 1964 New York World's Fair where I was dazzled by images of a golden future. It got me to thinking that if air travel was already so fantastic then how incredible would it be in the future?

CLEVELAND, Monday, July 20. MORGAN made an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Ohio yesterday, near Cooleyville, but was prevented by a gunboat. One hundred and fifty rebels were killed and drowned. A thousand prisoners were taken, with their artillery. Among the prisoners were Col. WARD and Col. DICK MORGAN, a brother of JOHN. The band was scattered among the hills. Gen. JUDAH is confident of capturing the balance of the party to-day. CINCINNATI, Monday, July 20. On Saturday morning MORGAN's forces were over-taken near Pomeroy by Gens. HOBSON and JUDAH, who had formed a junction. MORGAN finding himself in close...

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the city has "no more room for migrants" and "our cup has basically runneth over," after it welcomed approximately 90,000 migrants since April 2022. "We stated several months ago that we have reached full capacity and that full capacity was verbalized, and now New York is just going to be visually actualized. We’re going to see how much of our cup has basically runneth over. We have no more room in the city, and we need help," Adams said in a press conference Wednesday. snip Adams admitted that offering temporary shelter, placing migrants...

On Thursday, Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez announced that its embattled associate dean for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), Tirien Steinbach, has resigned. Steinbach’s all but assuredly forced “resignation” followed an outpouring of disgust from Americans revolted by her disgraceful antics during the Stanford Federalist Society student chapter’s attempted hosting in March of a speech by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan, which was constantly disrupted by outlandish student behavior and ultimately canceled. Steinbach’s resignation represents a modicum of justice following a grievous wrong. Now, Steinbach will have plenty of time to mull over...

Not only does Molana-Allen shift blame onto Israel (both its seven-month-old government and its settlements) for Palestinian violence which has been on the rise since at least early 2022, she also runs interference on behalf of the Lions’ Den terror organization. In the July 10 Newshour broadcast, “Cycle of violence and economic turmoil pushes young Palestinians to take up arms,” the special correspondent conceals the fact that the Lions’ Den terror organization has itself claimed responsibility for attacks against civilians and soldiers on numerous occasions, misleading... Like her 2020 debacle of coverage deflecting UNRWA’s responsibility for its own failures, Molana-Allen’s...

President Joe Biden has a lot in common with one of his fellow Democratic White House predecessors, according to columnist and author Kimberley Strassel. In her new book “The Biden Malaise: How America Bounces Back From Joe Biden’s Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years,” Strassel details the parallels between Jimmy Carter’s 1977-1981 presidency and Biden’s today. Of course, after Carter came President Ronald Reagan, and while Strassel says there is no copy of Reagan running for president in 2024, candidates should learn from Reagan’s optimism and vision for the country. Strassel, a member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial...

A baby girl was rescued by a stray dog that located her in a garbage can after the child was abandoned by someone in the town of Tripoli, Lebanon, and her condition is listed as serious, but stable. The dog was spotted carrying a black trash bag the animal found in the garbage outside a municipal building in the country’s city on Wednesday, the National reported. A passerby saw the dog and then heard cries coming from the garbage bag being held in the dog’s mouth. The person found the baby inside the bag, and took her to a nearby...

Earlier this year, in a landmark action, the Kansas legislature passed the Donor Intent Protection Act, which helps ensure that donors’ wishes are respected when they make a charitable gift as an endowment. This is a significant step forward for philanthropy, as it will help to build trust between donors and beneficiaries, on campus and elsewhere. Donor-intent protections are intended to uphold the details of an explicit written agreement between a donor and a charitable organization. Such agreements typically specify how the endowed funds will be used, such as for a specific program or purpose. When a donor makes a...

... Seifert posted a video of CNBC's Jim Cramer speaking about PublicSq and wrote, "You can tell Jim Cramer isn't used to hearing USA chants on the NYSE floor. The largest network of non-woke businesses in America is officially public." ... On Thursday, PublicSq went public on the stock exchange following a "business combination" with "Colombier Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: CLBR) ("Colombier"), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company." ...

Tony Bennett, the master pop vocalist who had a professional career spanning eight decades with a No. 1 album at age 85, died on Friday morning in New York City. He was 96. Bennett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016, but had continued to perform and record through 2021.

BREAKING: Trump’s classified documents trial set for May 20, 2024

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower Gary Shapley on Wednesday encouraged the House Oversight Committee to gather the evidence necessary to determine whether Attorney General Merrick Garland deliberately lied under oath, which could require a subpoena from House Oversight. Shapley suggested in his opening statement that House Oversight should gather more evidence about Garland potentially lying to Congress about political interference in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Hunter Biden investigation. “He led Congress to believe the case was insulated from improper political influence because all decisions were being made exclusively by Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss. But that was not true,”...

Every species would have a limit in its ability to develop their societies. Humans are not exempt from this, even if we are the most capable species. Part of my question is in regards to the motivation of the left and their desire to devolve society. One of the main desires of the left is to be an elitest. However, for that to happen, they have to stay ahead of the game. How does the left stay ahead if we have mostly maxxed out the sciences and math and engineering and education? What should happen, as we do approach our...