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The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, enabled the Trump administration to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants linked to diversity initiatives. The decision partially lifts a Boston-based judge’s ruling that declared the cancellations illegal and blocked the administration from moving forward. Five of the court’s six Republican-appointed justices sided with the administration: Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. They said the judge wasn’t following the high court’s emergency decision this spring allowing the administration to cancel education grants. Gorsuch was the most pointed in...

Cracker Barrel shed almost $100 million in market value after its stock plunged Thursday following the release of a new logo. The new design eliminates a longstanding drawing of an overall-clad man leaning against a barrel, in favor of a cleaner logo featuring just the chain's name. Shares of Cracker Barrel fell $4.22, or 7.2%, to $54.80 in Thursday trading, shedding $94 million in market value. The stock had dipped to a low of $50.27 earlier in the day, representing a loss of almost $200 billion in its capitalization. Wall Street's reaction to the logo redesign comes as Cracker Barrel...

Position overview Salary range: The current salary range for the Assistant-level position is $80,800 - $128,700 (9-month academic year salary). However, off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions. Anticipated start: July 1, 2026 Application Window Open date: August 15, 2025 Next review date: Monday, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: Monday, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date. Position description The...

SOCAR Oil Terminal Destroyed in Odessa Despite claims from the Trump administration about the success of Monday’s meeting with Zelensky and the European pimp delegation, the prospect for a successful negotiation to end the war in Ukraine is zero. Trump continues to mistakenly believe that he simply needs to get Putin and Zelensky together, who will hammer out a deal. Trump labors under the false assumption that the war in Ukraine was caused in part by a personal tiff between Putin and Zelensky. Putin has been very clear that he will only meet with Zelensky once the details of a...

...According to the group, they have connected a total of 63 injured children with care across the country without funding from governments or businesses... ...There are many countries around the world with great hospitals that should be stepping up to provide assistance, including France, Australia, U.K., and Canada to name a few,” wrote one official. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, a nonprofit organization advocating for Muslim-American rights, blasted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the agency’s decision to seemingly listen to online influencers....

Labour has lost almost 200,000 members in the past five years, according to the party's latest annual accounts. The party's membership has been steadily falling since Sir Keir Starmer became leader in April 2020, from a peak of 532,046 at the end of 2019. Despite the party's landslide election victory last summer, it shed another 37,215 members over the course of 2024, around 10% of its total membership at the start of the year. However, it is still the largest political party in the UK, with 333,235 members at the end of last year. Labour sources said membership numbers tend...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/watch-live-president-trump-delivers-remarks-patrols-dc/President Trump is speaking to the press after patrolling the streets of Washington, DC, amid his federal takeover of the city. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Trump announced that he would join local law enforcement and military personnel on patrol in the nation’s capital this evening, as part of his administration’s ongoing efforts to address rising crime rates in the city.The President is joined by roughly 300 men and women from various agencies, including the DEA, ATF, US Marshals, Homeland Security Investigations, DC Metropolitan Police, FBI, and National Guard at the The United States Park Police Anacostia operations facility.Several...

Military chiefs from the United States and a number of European countries on Thursday presented options to their national security advisers for providing security guarantees to Ukraine, officials said. This followed U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to help protect the country under any deal to end Russia's 3-1/2-year-old war in Ukraine. A Pentagon statement said U.S. and European planners had developed the military options for "appropriate consideration" by allied national security advisers. Reuters was first to report that the military leaders were preparing the options. The chiefs of defense for the United States, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom and...

A record 111,000 asylum applications were made to the UK during the year to June, but the government is processing cases faster, new Home Office figures show. This is an increase of 14% from the previous year, and it is higher than the peak of 103,000 in 2002. But officials are processing more cases than before the general election, meaning that over the long term there may be fewer people in the system needing housing support. The latest data, which covers Labour's first year in office, comes as the government faces growing pressure over immigration. The figures also showed 71,000...

Villanova University reported an active shooter alert through its Nova Alert system on Thursday, urging students and staff to lock and barricade doors. The university said to move to a secure location and stay clear of Law School Scarpa Hall. The Radnor Township Police Department said it is at the scene and asked all nearby residents and students to shelter in place.

On Saturday, over 100 teens were filmed taking over a local highway, causing traffic issues and shocking motorists. The teens were initially reported around 2 pm after Massachusetts State Police received calls detailing the teens on bicycles, electric scooters, and dirt bikes in the O’Neill Tunnel. Michael Filandro, who witnessed the incident, told WCVB, "Here comes [one to two] bikes, then 20 bicycles, and we realize there is a whole wagon train of them down the road. I thought it was a little parade or something going on. There was no escort, no police there. They were blowing through traffic...

SAN DIEGO, CA — In a small corner of the San Diego Zoo's chimpanzee exhibit lies a modest laptop computer that an autistic chimp named Hank uses to run Governor Gavin Newsom's X account. Hank has worked for Newsom for years, overseeing numerous strategic shifts in the governor's messaging, including suddenly posting in all caps or picking fights with popular figures like Donald Trump because he perceives them as threatening his status as the alpha ape. All of Hank's hard work recently paid off when Newsom promoted Hank to running all of his social media accounts full time. "I...

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is backing Alpha School. This rapidly growing private institution utilizes artificial intelligence to condense academic content into two hours a day, while steering clear of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Ackman praised Alpha in a post on X on Wednesday, calling it "the first truly breakthrough innovation in K-12 education" since the KIPP Academy. "Two hours of a dedicated AI personal tutor customized for your child's academic program. Four hours of leadership and life skills. No homework. Daily real-time data on how your child is doing," Ackman wrote. "Alpha kids love school and have incredible outcomes."

US District Judge Mathew Brann, an Obama appointee on Thursday said Alina Habba is “not lawfully holding the Office of US Attorney” of New Jersey. Habba resigned as Interim US Attorney and became Acting US Attorney for New Jersey after the Trump DOJ outmaneuvered the judges. The Pennsylvania-based federal judge oversaw a challenge to Alina Habba’s authority because the judges in New Jersey had a conflict of interest after they ousted her from her position as interim US Attorney last month. Last month it was reported that US Attorney General Pam Bondi promptly removed Alina Habba’s replacement after a group...

The fallout from Cracker Barrel's logo change and restaurant makeover isn't over. Shares of the food chain plunged Thursday as customer backlash and investor unease drove the chain’s worst losing streak in months. Shares of Cracker Barrel (CBRL) tumbled more than 12% on Thursday, the steepest drop since April. The stock, down 16.47%, is on pace for its worst five-day stretch since Feb. 14, when it dropped 17.7%. Cracker Barrel’s stock fell to $52, down more than $6, or about 11%, marking its lowest level since mid-June. Shares gained slightly to $53.48 by the afternoon. Since May, Cracker Barrel, beloved...

DC is built for protests. But after Trump’s takeover, they aren’t happening.In the early summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Washington in raucous protests against the police killing of George Floyd.In the late summer of 2025, following an unprecedented Trump administration takeover of local law enforcement, the best local critics have done so far is a relatively small procession from Dupont Circle around the White House demanding that “Donald Trump must go.” “Danger! Danger! There’s a fascist in the White House!” marchers chanted, at one point...

A federal judge rejected President Donald Trump’s use of a loophole to keep Alina Habba in place as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor. In a 77-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann said Thursday that Habba “is not lawfully holding the office of United States Attorney” and has been in the position without legal authority since July 1. As a result, Habba, who had previously worked as Trump’s personal attorney, cannot participate in prosecutions by the office “as the ‘acting U.S. Attorney’” and seemingly cannot run the office the president maneuvered to keep her in charge of after her interim...

A Dallas Police K-9 officer is recovering after suffering heat exhaustion while working outside in extreme temperatures. K-9 Max, a 2-year-old German Shepherd, received a hero's welcome from officers, handlers and staff when he was released from MedVet Dallas at 3 p.m. Wednesday. CBS News Texas' Dawn White was the only reporter present at the emergency veterinary hospital when Max walked out the doors following a major scare. Dog collapsed during East Dallas manhunt Investigators said Max suffered a heat-related illness during a manhunt just before 2 p.m. Tuesday along Highland Road in East Dallas. Dallas Police rushed the beloved...

To go forward in our quest for life, liberty, and happiness we must go backwards. Food for Thought: The Bill of Rights was crafted to shield individuals from government overreach, born from hard lessons under British rule. But as later amendments responded to crises and shifting social pressures, they sometimes redefined liberty in ways that expanded government’s role rather than restrained it. Could this shift—however well-intentioned—have led to unintended consequences? Take the 16th Amendment: it allowed direct federal income taxation, intended to create a fairer revenue system. Yet over time, it enabled a sprawling bureaucracy and complex tax code that...

New voter registration data reported by The New York Times signals a potential crisis for the Democratic Party, as it shows a significant shift in party affiliations across the U.S. From 2020 to 2024, Democrats lost 2.1 million registered voters, while Republicans gained 2.4 million in the 30 states that track party affiliations, resulting in a net swing of 4.5 million voters. Ed Hale, a Maryland businessman and former Democrat who recently announced his candidacy for governor as a Republican, is an example of one of the people who made the switch. He initially signaled he'd be running as a...