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MADISON, WI - Multiple downtown streets are expected to be impacted Friday for an immigrant rights protest. The march segments of the event are expected to start between 12:40pm and 1 p.m. and will originate from three different locations – East High School, West High School, and Library Mall on the University of Wisconsin campus. The marches are planned to end at 2 p.m. on the Capitol Square. Residents are asked to plan for extra time when traveling in the area. All Madison schools are closed as teachers are expected to participate for this event called "A Day Without Immigrants,"...

In a decision that shouldn’t have surprised anyone, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Democrats can no longer create safe electoral fiefdoms based on race to win elections, calling it “racial gerrymandering.” It’s about time. The ruling essentially “neuters,” as some put it, Section 2 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. PJ Media scribe Matt Margolis called the decision “one of the most consequential redistricting decisions in a generation.” That’s not hyperbole. And it was long overdue. While still upholding the landmark Voting Rights Act, a 6-3 conservative majority found that a redrawing of Louisiana’s congressional map to include...

In February, workers at the company, Sama, told two Swedish newspapers they had witnessed glasses users going to the toilet and having sex. Less than two months later, Meta ended its contract with Sama, which Sama said would result in 1,108 workers being made redundant. Meta says it's because Sama did not meet its standards, a criticism Sama rejects. A Kenyan workers' organisation alleges Meta's decision was caused by the staff speaking out. Meta has not addressed that allegation but told BBC News in a statement it had "decided to end our work with Sama because they don't meet our...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A heated dispute broke out on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as President Donald Trump and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar clashed over whether the correct title of the Apostle Paul's epistle was "Two Corinthians" or "Eleven Corinthians." Sources said the disagreement began when Trump confidently referenced "Two Corinthians" during an impromptu press scrum, only for Omar to correct him that it's actually "Eleven Corinthians." "Excuse me, Mr. President, but it's obviously 'Eleven Corinthians'," said Omar. "Just like 'Eleven Samuel' and 'Eleven Kings'. Frankly, it's embarrassing that I, a Muslim of all people, would have to correct you on the...

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Wednesday on CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) claimed that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had committed war crimes. (snip) He added, “And on top of that, we then have the strike where they came back in and hit it again, a double tap, just purely to kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage. You know, it’s interesting, Erin, another historical analogy back in World War II, the Allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing. And guess what the conclusion was? They got executed.”

A Florida substitute teacher who called herself a “million-dollar prostitute” was fired after she twerked and allegedly grabbed a student in a classroom meltdown. Angela Faith Jourdan was arrested on Monday when she was accused of acting erratically at Lake Minneola High School in Minneola, Fla. The district said her employment was terminated the same day as the incident. “Good afternoon. We are aware of the arrest. Parents have been notified. The substitute teacher was hired 2/4/2025, and employment was terminated today,” the district said in a statement to News 6. Jourdan is accused of making explicit remarks to students,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jerome Powell said Wednesday he plans to remain on the board of the Federal Reserve after his term as chair ends next month “for a period of time, to be determined,” saying the “unprecedented” legal attacks by the Trump administration have put the independence of the nation’s central bank at risk. “I worry these attacks are battering this institution and putting at risk the things that really matter to the public,” Powell said in remarks at a press conference after the Fed announced its decision to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged. Powell’s decision to stay —...

uring the past 50-plus years, there has been a decline in the formality of workplace office attire, an increase in little children calling adult neighbors and relatives by their first names, and an increase of “sloppy Joe” or “sloppy Jane” clothing on our college campuses. In our largest city — New York — fare evasions on buses and subways are at an all-time high. The misbehavior in our public schools has reached intolerable levels. All sectors of everyday life are in decline. Bus drivers in NYC are not as likely as in past years to insist that passengers pay their...

Another day, another warning sign from the Washington establishment.Senate Majority Leader John Thune has reportedly will BLOCK a permanent ban on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) in ANY legislation the House sends over, and also “No SAVE America.”Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), one of the few true fighters left in Congress, dropped this bombshell warning to the nation on X:“Attention America: John Thune has said he will not support a CBDC ban in any of the legislation we send over. He also has said No Save America.”And shortly after Luna’s post, Rep. Tim Burchett confirmed it on his account, writing...

“Big Brother is watching you” is no longer a fictional admonition. Everywhere you go, your location is recorded by phone technology, license plate readers, Uber and Lyft transactions, and cameras. Privacy? Forget about it. Your location history is in the hands of many tech companies. Can the police and other government agencies force tech companies to share that information about you? The U.S. Supreme Court took up that question on Monday. The court’s decision could have a widespread impact on your privacy. If your location history puts you within a 1-mile radius of a bank robbery with hundreds of...

Squad Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who’s under investigation for blowing campaign cash on a shrink who specializes in ketamine therapy, spent big on the doctor last quarter, new records showed. The socialist lawmaker who reps parts of Queens and the Bronx allegedly violated election and ethics rules by misusing nearly $19,000 in campaign cash last year on Dr. Brian Boyle, according to watchdog complaints filed last month with the Federal Election Commission and Office of Congressional Conduct. New FEC quarterly filings reveal the controversial expenses continued this year, with AOC’s campaign paying $4,550 to Boyle on Jan. 12. While the lawmaker...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch tells BBC Radio London's Eddie Nestor: "The community don't think that they [the government] are doing enough. I was there yesterday and you could feel the fear that was on the streets." Earlier, the Home Office confirmed it was investing a further £25m in extra policing and security for Jewish communities. On the funding, Badenoch says: "So we do need to see an increased police presence. The government has said it's giving money - I don't know exactly what the money is for, I don't know if that money is enough. "But I do know that...

A grand jury on Wednesday indicted a Louisiana sheriff whose office came under investigation after 10 inmates broke out of a New Orleans jail in an audacious escape that happened on her watch. Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson is not accused of helping the inmates pull off the brazen jailbreak through a hole behind a toilet, setting off a monthslong search before all the escapees were eventually captured. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said a state probe instead found that Hutson’s poor management of the jail led to the escape. The 30-count indictment handed up by a New Orleans grand...

A former Minnesota state trooper alleged this week that his bosses at the state Department of Human Services tried to bully him into quashing his findings of fraud in the state’s child care funding program. Jay Swanson, a former criminal investigator for the DHS, also revealed that it was well known among Somali refugees in East Africa that Minnesota was the best place to go in the US to pull off child care fraud schemes. And then, Gov. Tim Walz came into office — and Swanson’s entire department investigating waste, fraud and abuse was eliminated, according to Republican lawmakers. The...

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Talk about some dirty diamonds. A descendant of the Cartier jewelry dynasty was sentenced to eight years in federal prison after confessing to running an unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange that laundered more than $470 million in drug trafficking proceeds. Maximilien de Hoop Cartier, a resident of France who moonlights as a singer under the name “Max Cartier,” was sentenced in Manhattan federal court Tuesday after pleading guilty in October to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Cartier, 58, funneled the money through a web of US shell companies disguised as fake software and tech firms —...

A mineral long dismissed as worthless may be hiding something far more valuable. Scientists have found lithium inside pyrite, a discovery that could change how we think about future energy resources. Lithium is now central to modern technology. It powers phones, laptops, and electric cars, and its ability to store and release energy efficiently makes it essential for renewable energy systems. At the same time, demand is rising quickly. Most lithium still comes from pegmatites and volcanic clays, but expanding production without increasing environmental impact remains difficult. This is why researchers are exploring less obvious sources. Lithium Found Where No...

The 45-year-old suspect arrested yesterday came to the UK "lawfully as a child" from Somalia, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells BBC Breakfast. Yesterday police said he was born in Somalia but did not indicate how he arrived in the country. Mahmood says she can't give further details while the investigation continues.

One of the most brilliant, most controversial, most mercurial, most wild and wildly influential artists, songwriters, and performers in country music history has done something that almost seemed impossible from this old stump of hickory who survived prison stints, motorcycle gang fights, horrific automobile accidents, run-ins with the law, and a major bout with COVID that put him in the hospital at 82—he’s succumb to mortality and passed on to that honky tonk in the sky. David Allan Coe was always just as much myth as he was man. That is the reason his music, and his legacy is often...