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MILWAUKEE -- Ed Miklavcic said the secrets to his longevity are simple: He took care of himself and worked hard. It showed on Wednesday at American Family Field, where the 105-year-old Miklavcic, a World War II veteran and the second-oldest living survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, threw a ceremonial first pitch for the ages prior to the Tigers-Brewers game. Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick and manager Pat Murphy were among those who visited with Miklavcic before his pitch. He is one of 15 veterans of Pearl Harbor alive today after this week’s passing of 106-year-old Vaughn P. Drake Jr....

High level excerpt:Antisemitism on campus lawsuitsBacklash against Harvard’s initial response to antisemitism accusations Former President Claudine Gay’s ‘unacceptable’ testimony to Congress Former president Claudine Gay accused of plagiarism Harvard refuses to comply with Trump administration’s demands

David Hogg, a controversial Democratic National Committee vice chair, is pledging to upend Democratic primaries by funding candidates who will challenge “ineffective, asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats. The move puts Hogg, the now 25-year-old who first gained national stature as an outspoken survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, on a collision course with his own party and some Democratic House members. Leaders We Deserve, which Hogg co-founded in 2023, announced plans on Tuesday to spend $20 million in safe-blue Democratic primaries against sitting House members by supporting younger opponents. In an interview with POLITICO, Hogg said the group will not back...

WILD conspiracy theories have emerged over the historic all-female Blue Origin flight into space after an apparent gaffe was spotted in the landing video. The six women - including popstar Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sanchez - traveled just beyond the edge of space aboard Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard rocket, before the capsule parachuted back to Earth. As well as Sanchez and Perry, on board the capsule were morning show icon Gayle King, ex-NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn. In the video, Jeff Bezos is seen wrenching open...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was pressed on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, during a heated exchange at a town hall he held Tuesday. Grassley discussed numerous topics during the Iowa event, including farmers, tariffs and congressional Republicans’ planned reconciliation bill that would seek to cut spending, extend President Trump’s tax cuts and provide money for border security, among other initiatives. But he participated in a particularly tense back-and-forth when discussing the case of Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national. “Are you going to bring that guy back from El Salvador?”...

First it was the cow farts. Now it’s dog “sh*t.” Moral of the story: eco crazies will never be satisfied until people start seeing climate change threats in their soup. Leftist newspaper The Guardian published an April 9 story that reeked of being desperate for attention, even if that meant making its writers look like cats that have been overdosing on catnip. “Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds,” read the headline coughed up like a hairball from science writer Donna Lu. The syntax read like a Babylon Bee special, “An Australian review of existing...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — In a beautiful ceremony today, Harvard University bestowed an honorary degree to the pro-Hamas activist Cody Balmer, who firebombed Governor Josh Shapiro's home. Though Balmer was being held without bail due to nearly murdering an entire family for being Jewish, Harvard administrators took it upon themselves to travel to the prison for the ceremony. "This man represents everything Harvard is about," said Harvard president Alan Garber. "All of us at Harvard were simply blown away when we read about Cody's courageous stand against the scourge of Zionism. It's so inspiring to meet a man who believes so...

Thank you for the introduction. I am looking forward to our conversation, Professor Rajan. First, I will briefly discuss the outlook for the economy and monetary policy. At the Fed, we are always focused on the dual-mandate goals given to us by Congress: maximum employment and stable prices. Despite heightened uncertainty and downside risks, the U.S. economy is still in a solid position. The labor market is at or near maximum employment. Inflation has come down a great deal but is running a bit above our 2 percent objective. Recent Economic Data Turning to the incoming data, we will get...

[Catholic Caucus] Chapel in Apostolic Palace: "Rupnik Lied to Replace Mosaics with His Own"The apparently sex-mad Father Marko Rupnik built his career on destroying and replacing the work of the Russian mosaicist Alexander Kornoukhov, the latter told LaNuovaBq.it (April 15).Kornoukhov was commissioned in 1996 to decorate the Redemptoris Mater Chapel in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace. It was a gift to John Paul II for his 50th anniversary as a priest.The mosaics on walls and ceilings included motifs such as the Annunciation, Jacob's Dream, and some figures of saints (pictures of these destroyed works below).The picture at the top of this...

Fix Our Forests Act would open the door to widespread logging and undermine environmental laws. WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Senators John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) introduced the Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA). In a giveaway to the timber industry, the bill – which is presented as a measure against wildfire – could open the door to unlimited logging across millions of acres of national forests, undermining bedrock environmental and public health laws. House Natural Resources Committee Chair Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) introduced companion legislation that passed the House in January 2025. The Senate version of...

Harvard University’s history of anti-Semitism goes back at least as far as the 1930s Title: Harvard Honors Hitler’s Henchman Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Document: The Jewish Advocate Time: 1934 “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” —Mark Twain Harvard University’s history of anti-Semitism goes back at least as far as the 1930s. Then as now, the inaction of its president and faculty in the face of true evil would have disturbing repercussions. A Harvard grad would rise to the upper echelons of Nazi Germany. Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl was born in 1887 in Munich, Germany. His father, Edgar, was a prominent...

Knowing their relationship, it would be highly likely for Boasberg to appoint former DOJ-NSD head Mary McCord as special Judicial Branch lead criminal prosecutor against Donald Trump and Pam Bondi as co-defendants. McCord's co-counsel team would then bring in Norm Eisen, Barry Berke and Andrew Weissmann Esq. Think I'm kidding? Watch.

In the United States, Tuesday, April 15 was the deadline for filing federal, state and local income tax returns. Some Americans owed money by April 15, while others are expecting refunds. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is processing millions of federal tax returns. But according to Politico reporters Sophia Cai and Benjamin Guggenheim, the IRS may have a greatly reduced workforce in the future. And Politico's reporting is receiving a lot of discussion on X, formerly Twitter. Cai and Guggenheim, in a mid-April article, explain, "The IRS could see a mass exodus of up to 40 percent of its workforce...

At 6-foot-6 and 464 pounds, there’s only one thing standing in the way of Desmond Watson’s NFL dreams. His weight. The Florida defensive tackle might become the heaviest player ever selected in next week’s draft, but he’s doing everything in his power to make sure that’s not the case. “Stopping while driving,” Watson said when asked by Fox Sports about what he’s doing to lose weight. “My biggest thing is keep going, get to where I need to get. There are stores and a lot of temptations. That’s helped me immensely: Don’t go inside the gas station. Pay at the...

Left-wing commentator and Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe claimed Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that President Donald Trump’s administration was causing “an impending police state.” Tribe said, “I been in school for 50 years studying the constitution, teaching about it. It doesn’t enforce itself. It takes human beings of character to take it seriously. And when for whatever combination of cultural and social reasons, the nation selects someone who clearly has no respect for the constitution, someone who is cruel, someone who is without moral principle this is what we see. We see a tinhorn dictator interacting with a wannabe...

Iran's right to enrich uranium is not negotiable, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Wednesday, ahead of a second round of talks in Oman this weekend with the United States about Tehran's disputed nuclear programme. Araqchi was responding to a comment made on Tuesday by the U.S. top negotiator Steve Witkoff, who said Tehran must "stop and eliminate its nuclear enrichment" to reach a deal with Washington. "We have heard contradictory statements from Witkoff, but real positions will be made clear at the negotiating table," Araqchi said. "We are ready to build trust regarding possible concerns over Iran's enrichment (of...

Trump administration border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends” that Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and other Democrats’ plans to go to El Salvador to conduct a welfare check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant, was “disgusting.” Partial transcript as follows: LAWRENCE JONES: Truly incredible. This comes as House Democrats reportedly planning to send a delegation to the megaprison where he’s being held. Let’s bring in the man himself, border czar Tom Homan joins us now. Tom, I just want to focus on one portion when the senator said that he was abducted. As the...

WSJ policy on excerpting. But these are quotations made by Trump President Trump is actively considering at least 15 trade proposals with countries, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Last week, the Trump administration announced a 90-day pause on so-called reciprocal tariffs to allow time to negotiate deals with nations. “He has made clear, he wants to personally sign off on all of these deals,” Leavitt said. “There’s a lot of work to do, we do believe we can announce some deals very soon.” She did not say which nations were close to reaching a deal with the...

A federal judge Wednesday found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for willfully disobeying his order to immediately halt deportations under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act and turn around any airborne planes. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s order gives the administration a final opportunity to come into compliance but says he otherwise will take steps to identify the specific people who flouted his March 15 ruling, which was later lifted by the Supreme Court, and refer them for prosecution.

See new posts Conversation Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson Sen. Chris Van Hollen is currently in El Salvador threatening the Trump Administration. “Let the Trump Administration know… We are fighting to bring Abrego Garcia home.” He is there to demand a MS-13 terrorist be released and brought back to the US. 0:00 / 1:00 From New York Post 11:52 AM · Apr 16, 2025