Here’s a fun baseball hypothetical: If you were an MLB general manager and building your team from scratch right now, which player would you take first? Los Angeles Dodgers DH Shohei Ohtani or New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge? Why are these two players the only choices? Both are possibly the best players of their […]
President Trump fired the Librarian of Congress and installed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the acting librarian. Members of Congress are challenging the move, believing the position isn’t under the executive branch’s jurisdiction. So is it? According to the Library, it is an agency of the legislative branch. An appellate court ruled in 2024 […]
There have been more than 500 alleged attacks on Catholic churches in the United States since May 2020, according to CatholicVote, a faith advocacy organization. The latest attack happened May 6 in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. Police said a man was seen on surveillance video lighting an explosive on an altar inside a Catholic church, WFMZ […]
A new bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, would give every American newborn a cash investment from the federal government at birth. The Invest America Act would create a private, tax-advantaged account for each newborn, funded with an initial $1,000 contribution. What is the Invest America Act? The House of Representatives included it […]
Actor-director Dave Franco and actress Alison Brie are being sued over their upcoming horror-comedy film “Together.” Indie filmmakers claimed that the movie copies plot elements, themes and even specific scenes from their 2023 project, “Better Half.” According to the lawsuit filed by StudioFest cofounders Jess Jacklin and Charles Irving Beale, the two were attending the […]
A new investigation links high-ranking Trump administration officials –– including FBI Director Kash Patel –– to Holocaust deniers and other antisemitic extremists. The report by NPR comes as the administration cuts grants to Harvard and other elite universities for allegedly failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic threats and violence. The White House declined to […]
A forthcoming book about former President Joe Biden accuses officials and aides of covering up the health problems of the onetime commander in chief. The authors, both reporters with mainstream media outlets, claim Democratic partisans did everything they could to prevent the public from knowing how serious Biden’s health issues were during the 2024 presidential […]
Twenty Democratic states, led by California, are suing the Trump administration as they seek to halt President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold funding for transportation, counterterrorism and disaster relief if they don’t work with federal immigration enforcement. The states filed a pair of lawsuits Tuesday, May 13, in a Rhode Island federal court. What do […]
The Harvard Law School Library has identified a centuries-old manuscript, long believed to be a copy, as a rare original version of the Magna Carta, dating back to 1300. The school originally purchased the document for just $27.50. How did historians discover the authenticity of the Magna Carta? The revelation came after Professor David Carpenter […]
House Democratic leadership announced they will join Republicans in voting to table a privileged resolution to impeach President Donald Trump. Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., introduced the articles of impeachment, going rogue and bringing them forward against his party’s wishes. Why do Democrats oppose impeachment right now? “We shouldn’t be talking about this proposal that is not […]
