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Almost half of Buick dealers across the United States have opted to take buyouts from General Motors (GM) to avoid having to sell Electric Vehicles (EVs) at a time when consumer reports show Americans are increasingly turned off by the cars. According to GM, almost 1,000 of its nearly 2,000 Buick dealerships across the U.S. chose to take buyouts from the parent company rather than investing potentially millions into retooling and prepping dealers to service and sell EVs.

Harvard cannot fire embattled President Claudine Gay because it risks undermining the "entire diversity enterprise," the Wall Street Journal's Jason Riley argued in his opinion column on Wednesday. Harvard's top governing body has stood by Gay following intense backlash to controversial comments she made about antisemitism ... and accusations she plagiarized... ... Gay and University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill were "guilty of indulging antisemitism on campus," but faced different fates... "You don’t need a Harvard degree to understand that Ms. Gay, the school’s first Black president, advances the diversity imperatives of her institution in ways that Ms. Magill, who...

Police have arrested two of the suspects Arlington Police said a homeowner told them he was returning fire when he shot three people trying to break into his car around early Wednesday morning. Greg Willis, who later clarified with NBC 5 that he is renting his home, said his Ring camera started going off just before 2:00 a.m. "Wake up, see someone in my son's car. I call him, 'Hey, is that you outside?' He said, 'No,'" said Willis, who lives on the 6100 block of Vancil Drive. Willis said he and his son walked down the block, going after...

A newly-uncovered trove of documents detailing plans to create a Covid-like virus in China months before the pandemic make the 'lab leak almost certain', experts say. The records - obtained now by FOIA requests - lay out a plan to 'engineer spike proteins' to infect human cells that would then be 'inserted into SARS-Covid backbones' at the infamous Wuhan virology lab from December 2018. Just a year later, in late 2019, the Covid-19 virus emerged with a uniquely adept ability to infect humans, going on to cause a global pandemic. The proposal was made by the now-notorious EcoHealth Alliance, a...

As diversity equity and inclusion reaches its apotheosis, some erstwhile protected classes are chafing at their recent exclusion. Being diverse only matters if power and privilege are associated with the moniker. What happens when the loathed white majority views itself as excluded and as a persecuted class? America is about to find out. ... Racism against white people is now the norm. From government Christmas parties excluding white employees to “safe spaces” on campus, discrimination against white people isn’t just allowed, it’s encouraged. What happens when systemic suppression happens to the majority? America is about to find out. White kids...

Dwight D. Eisenhower said that “Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal." (Snip) Over the last few weeks of Operation Iron Swords, we have seen many individual soldiers or units who have taken it on themselves to demoralize Israel’s enemies, whether in Gaza or Judea and Samaria. Many of the soldiers are acting primarily to raise the morale of the troops around them, but it is clear from Palestinian Arab social media that they are having a strong effect on the enemy. -We witnessed early on the large amount...

US Congress has launched a probe into anti-Semitism at three top universities – Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT, but social media is also on rage, expressing their anger over these schools which have allegedly failed to tackle the “rampant antisemitism” on their campuses after the Hamas’ 7 October attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli invasion of Gaza. The presidents of all these three universities have been facing backlash over their testimony Tuesday on rising antisemitism on campus since the 7 October Hamas attack. The investigation has been launched by the Education Committee after the leaders of these...

Ex-president Donald Trump took to his TruthSocial platform to advertise his $99 digital trading cards that depict him in various heroic settings, just after Colorado judges barred him from running for the GOP primary in the Rocky Mountain state. In the wake of the decision, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said that the campaign had already lodged an appeal to the decision with the US Supreme Court. Trump first launched the cards in December last year. The first versions depicted him as a superhero. At the time of the launch, it was confirmed that the proceeds from the cards to not...

Former New York Mayor and lawyer for President Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani ordered to "immediately" pay... Voting extended in elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo... A late night barrage of rockets from Lebanon hitting the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona... In Poland the new left-leaning secularist government cleaning house at state media companies... (News, Comment And Analysis) With just weeks to go before the election in Taiwan a talking point news story about China and Taiwan.... China said to have suspended a currency swap agreement with Argentina... Argentine President Javier Milei announcing by decree the changing of 300...

WWE icon Hulk Hogan has been baptized. His ceremony took place at Indian Rocks Baptist Church in Florida, as noted by the social media slideshow he shared Wednesday night. “Total surrender and dedication to Jesus is the greatest day of my life,” the 70-year-old star captioned the post. “No worries, no hate, no judgment… only love!”

An alleged victim of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein celebrated Wednesday after it was revealed that more than 170 people with ties to the accused sex trafficker will soon be exposed — calling the reveal an early Christmas gift. Virginia Giuffre — who settled a $12 million lawsuit over allegations Epstein sex-trafficked her to Prince Andrew — appeared to taunt the dozens of associates and ex-employees whose names will be dredged up in a trove of court documents to be unsealed in the coming weeks. “There’s going to be a lot of nervous ppl over Christmas and New Years, 170 to...

Colonel Raynor Sarnac has to balance his family and his duty as head of a flight group facing the political tensions of the early 60's. All rights to ABC television. 1. Pilot

A new bill filed in the New York State Assembly aims to force some Chick-fil-A locations to operate seven days a week, threatening the fast food chain's longstanding policy of keeping its restaurants closed on Sundays. The legislation proposed last week would require all food vendors operating at rest stops owned by the New York State Thruway Authority to open every day, and names Chick-fil-A as the reason behind the move. "While there is nothing objectionable about a fast food restaurant closing on a particular day of the week, service areas dedicated to travelers is an inappropriate location for such...

A progressive congressman associated with "The Squad" who proudly voted to defund the Austin Police Department as a city council member and blasted the department just last week for alleged racist practices is under fire after requesting a police patrol at his home from the same department. "It’s come to our attention that Anti police king of the defund movement in Austin @GregCasar who only last week called APD an agency with racist practices has requested enhanced patrols around his house for the next week," the Austin Police Retired Officers Association posted on X Tuesday. "We want everyone in Austin...

When I review divided appellate-court decisions, I almost always read the dissenting opinions first. The habit formed back when I was a young law student and lawyer—and Federalist Society member—in the late 1980s, when I would pore (and, I confess, usually coo) over Justice Antonin Scalia’s latest dissents. I came to adopt the practice not just for newsworthy rulings that I disagreed with, but for decisions I agreed with, including even obscure cases in the areas of business law I practiced. Dissents are generally shorter, and almost always more fun to read, than majority opinions; judges usually feel freer to...

Former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports” that the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot was “pure partisan ridiculous stuff.” Kasich said, “It’s going nowhere. I mean, look, I don’t need to lay out my bona fide as my opposition to Donald Trump. This is just pure partisan ridiculous stuff here.”

In this interview, a former employee comes forward to share how he was groomed by Michael Voris. If you believe you have been a victim of sexual harassment, be sure to report it and consult with an attorney. Video is 1:15:09 minutes long

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that former President Donald Trump saying several times that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country is offensive. Barr said, “I’m offended by it because it has racist overtones. I actually feel, as you say, we have to control the border and a lot of people coming across the border from anywhere in the world. We don’t know where they’re coming from.

Johnson pointed the finger at Abbott for the crisis, however, during a press conference for the opening of Chicago's new Community Reentry Support Center. "We have a governor – a governor – an elected official in the state of Texas, that is placing families on buses without shoes, cold, wet, tired, hungry, afraid, traumatized," Johnson said. "And then they come to the city of Chicago where we have homelessness, we have mental health clinics that have been shut down and closed, you have people who are seeking employment." He went on to argue, "The governor of Texas needs to take...

This "60 Minutes" piece is now nearly 35 years old. Grand Central in 1990As a daily Grand Central commuter for ten years now, this video is both historic and contemporary. The station itself is much the same, except many less commuters are looking for information at the booth (we have apps for that now). The homeless are still around and still getting rousted, however not as brusquely as seen in this video. The bar carts are now shut down but you can still bring alcoholic beverages onboard the commuter trains for the way home. Grand Central is now triple the...