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San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has revived a controversial benefit program once lauded as a step toward “reparations” for black San Franciscans. Known as the Dream Keeper Initiative, the relaunched program will grant $36 million to “community-serving organizations,” including some that have offered “Afri-centric” mental-health services, African ancestry DNA testing, and free doulas for “African American birthing people.” The Dream Keeper Initiative was founded by former San Francisco Mayor London Breed in 2021, fulfilling her promise to redirect police funding to “the African American community” in the aftermath of George Floyd’s 2020 death in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In February 2021, Breed...

Explanation: For the first time we are witnessing outer planet Uranus take center stage and pirouette. Uranus is one of the Solar System’s strangest planets, lying on its side and spinning like a rotisserie chicken. The featured video is composed of over 1000 spectra taken over 15 hours of continuous viewing by JWST's NIRSpec instrument while Uranus rotates. The data captures the behavior of Uranus’s ionosphere: the ionized layer of a planet’s atmosphere that strongly interacts with the planet's magnetic field. The aurora’s rosy glow traces the complex interplay between Uranus's misaligned rotation and magnetic axes. Clouds can be seen...

A California mother charged with murdering her newborn child last month has been accused of killing another baby she delivered 11 years ago. Marisol Flores, 30, was arrested on February 8 after she allegedly killed her one-day-old child at a homeless encampment, according to police. The Ventura County District Attorney filed an amended complaint on Tuesday accusing Flores of murdering her 25-day-old baby, whose gender was not specified, in 2015. 'During the investigation into the 2026 case, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office reopened a previous probe into the November 2015 death of Flores’ 25-day-old baby,' the district attorney's office wrote...

Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords.

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Just In: Circuit court judge from Missouri upholds the new congressional map in the state Old Map: 🔴 Republicans: 6 🔵 Democrats: 2 New Map: 🔴 Republicans: 7 (+1) 🔵 Democrats: 1 (-1)

Although Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the best-known Beat Generation writers who were exhilarated by jazz, plenty of others were creatively fired by the music.“I’m the bop writer!” boasts a character in The Subterraneans, Jack Kerouac’s 1958 semi-autobiographical novella set in the jazz districts of New York. The book, along with On the Road (1957) and The Dharma Bums (1958), captured what the writer called “the new bop generation way of speaking,” and all three owed much of their inspiration to the author’s love of the improvisational jazz pioneers of that era. On the Road was a genuine...

Michigan authorities responded to reports of an active shooter at a Jewish temple outside Detroit on Thursday. FBI Director Kash Patel said there was a vehicle ramming and an active-shooter situation at the temple. Temple Israel is a Reform Jewish synagogue in West Bloomfield Township about 20 miles northwest of Detroit. Authorities haven’t said if anyone was injured or killed. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she was tracking the incident. “This is heartbreaking,” she said. “Michigan’s Jewish community should be able to live and practice their faith in peace.” The Jewish Federation of Detroit said its Jewish agencies were in...

I don't care if you call me "Islamophobic." I don't care if I am Islamophobic. Call me whatever you need to, but holy halal, Batman, what fresh hell is this? I'll tell you what it is: It's the Islamist mayor of the erstwhile greatest city on the face of the Earth, turning the people's seat of power into a Muslim stronghold, much as he is turning the Big Apple into a sharia-friendly s**thole. On Wednesday, New York City Mayor Mamdani hosted an iftar — the meal at which Muslims stuff their faces after fasting through the daylight hours during Ramadan...

Iran’s military has shown off its enormous supply of naval suicide drones, which it is using to blockade the crucial Strait of Hormuz, in chilling footage taken from its underground “missile city.” Footage from Iranian state media purportedly shows underground tunnels full of naval drones, anti-ship missiles, and sea mines, with dramatic footage also showing some of them being fired. Experts have analyzed the footage, released by Iranian state media outlet Fars, telling CNN exactly what is being shown off. The full terrifying array of armory on display includes: Abadil-2/3 “kamikaze” drones: Shown on rail launchers inside the tunnels, these...

Live Nation employees described ticket buyers as "so stupid" and joked about "robbing them blind" in private messages from the company's internal Slack account. The exchanges were collected as part of a 2024 antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, which was tentatively settled earlier this week. Live Nation would be ordered to open ticketing deals to other vendors and to pay up to $280 million in damages. The federal government had been joined by attorneys general from 39 states and the District of Columbia who said Live Nation and Ticketmaster had maintained...

The Senate on Thursday passed the largest housing affordability bill in 30 years, including a ban on investors from buying single-family homes, with a 89-10 vote. But the bill faces an upward battle in the House, which passed its own bipartisan legislation in February. House GOP leaders have already said the measure will need to be negotiated, suggesting they will not take up the Senate-passed bill. House Minority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., earlier this week told fellow House Republicans in a closed-door meeting that the measure is likely to bog down over differences between the two chambers’ versions. One of...

The scenario long-dreaded by Republican strategists looks increasingly plausible following Tuesday’s primary election in Texas: Democrat James Talarico may face Republican Ken Paxton for the state’s U.S. Senate seat in November. Paxton is heading for a runoff against Sen. John Cornyn where he is likely to be at least a slight favorite, though the final results from the first round of voting could shift expectations. Talarico defeated Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary, according to Associated Press projections. Republicans fear the matchup could, at the very least, cost the party tens of millions of dollars to protect Paxton, the...

In the face of a lawsuit and growing verbal attacks on the campaign trail, Rep. Eric Swalwell — the Democratic frontrunner in the California governor’s race — insists he’s kept a home in the state for nearly nine years while serving in Congress. But that would be news to Swalwell’s neighbors. Five people who live on the quiet Livermore cul-de-sac where Swalwell claims to have lived since 2017 told The California Post on Wednesday that they have never met the congressman.

Republican Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) blew up at an NBC News crew that attempted to ask him a question on an apparent flip-flop in his views. Cornyn wrote an op-ed for the New York Post in which he claimed to support “whatever changes to Senate rules that may prove necessary for us to get the ‘SAVE America Act’ (passed) and homeland security funding.” SNIP The Senator then placed his hand over the NBC camera lens, ending the interview.

Evangelical leader Dr. Mike Evans launched billboards in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv thanking President Donald Trump amid the ongoing war with Iran.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The all clear was provided after a shooting at Old Dominion University Thursday morning. One victim was killed and two were hurt. The suspected gunman is dead, according to ODU officials. In a press conference held around 2 p.m., ODU Police Chief Shelton confirmed one victim was deceased and two were now in stable condition. He added one victim self-transported to a hospital in Virginia Beach. ODU President Brian Hemphill, Ph.D., issued a statement in reference to the shooting: "Earlier today, March 12, 2026, Old Dominion University faced a tragedy on our main campus. I am...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has been unrelenting in poking at Donald Trump on social media, and the President returned fire on Wednesday. “Gavin Newscum’s interview weeks ago was, perhaps, the most self destructive interview I’ve ever seen,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “In one fell swoop, he took himself out of even being considered as the Presidential Nominee of the Crazy (as proven at the State of the Union Address) Democrats. He said, in a speech, he was dumb, had low Boards, can’t read, has dyslexia, and has a mental disorder — A Cognitive Mess! “On top of that, Black...

Is it any real surprise that the crown prince of the most notorious left-wing empires in American politics is getting all bent out of shape because President Donald Trump decided to finally dismantle the murderous Islamist regime of Iran? Alex Soros got his panties in a bunch after the United States launched coordinated strikes on Iran with Israel, and praised the leftist-run Spain for grandstanding against the attacks in a March 2 X post that got ratioed into oblivion. “Why aren’t more Europeans standing up to an illegal war! Same with Canada! They make nice speeches at conferences, but do...

A man allegedly drove his car into a family on an evening walk, then opened fire, killing a 3-year-old child in the process. On Feb. 17, Alexander Lamar Banks, 21, was arraigned on one count of first-degree premeditated murder, three counts of assault with intent to murder, four counts of felony firearm, one count of possession of a dangerous weapon w/unlawful intent and one charge of possession of loaded firearm in vehicle, according to a press release from the Eaton County authorities in Michigan. A couple and their 3-year-old daughter, whom they pulled along in a pink wagon, were walking...