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AP Images Pete Buttigieg An old video clip of U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg peddling a falsehood about the design of bridges and overpasses has resurfaced thanks to the End Wokeness X feed.The height of such structures built in the early 20th century is racist, he said in 2021, and designed to stop buses — used mainly by blacks — ...

AP Images Alexander Bortnikov Director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov accused the United States, the U.K., and Ukraine of involvement in the terror attack in Moscow last week. Responding to a question about whether the above nations were involved in the attack, he stated, “We believe that this is true. In any case, we are now talking...

nktwentythree/iStock/Getty Images Plus Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has widened its classification of persons and organizations perceived to be involved in extremist activities or terrorism to include “the international LGBT social movement and its structural units.” The updated list can be seen on the agency’s website.The move follows a ruling by the country’s Supreme Court last November that maintained...

AP Images The terrorists who allegedly carried out the attack that killed at least 137 people in Moscow’s Crocus City Hall are appeared in Moscow’s Basmanny Court today after being captured by Russia’s FSB.The Kremlin reported the suspects were captured while attempting to flee to Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of being involved in the attack, with Ukraine...

mj0007/iStock/Getty Images Plus Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu A Hawaii Senate committee controlled by Democratic Party legislators has passed two resolutions applying for an Article V constitutional convention.On Wednesday last week, the Senate Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs voted in favor of Senate Resolution No. 168 (S.R. 168) and Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 196 (S.C.R. 196).These...

AP Images In his interview with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden for illegally taking classified documents to several unsecured locations, Biden repeated a falsehood he has been telling for years about the beginning of his less-than-stellar legal career.He claimed to have worked on a case in which his law firm defended a corporation in a liability...

No one is entirely sure how the fire started. Our best guess is that someone carelessly discarded a cigarette into a bin of fabric scraps. But it also doesn’t really matter. What did matter was that there was no way to fight it or even escape. In just 18 minutes, 146 were dead and hundreds of thousands of New York...

Jaiz Anuar/iStock/Getty Images Plus Three years after launching a crusade against ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19 — and nearly two years after doctors sued to stop it — the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to remove online content disparaging the drug as intended only for livestock.On Thursday, the FDA reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought in June...

coffeekai/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) denied an attempt to have the state follow California’s lead into an uncertain electric vehicle future. The unelected board voted 4-2 not to adopt the so-called Advanced Clean Cars program, which would have mandated that 51 percent of new car purchases in the state by 2028 be electric vehicles. The...

Kagenmi/iStock/Getty Images Plus American writer C.J. Hopkins was recently acquitted of violating Germany’s hate-speech law, which he was accused of breaking because he included a swastika on the cover of his self-published book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich.Despite that, Hopkins — who has lived in Germany nearly 20 years — recently told writer Matt Taibbi that he’s still...

drnadig/iStock/Getty Images Plus The House of Representatives voted today to pass a $1.2 trillion spending bill, averting a government shutdown. The bill passed 286-134, with 185 Democrats and 101 Republicans voting in favor, and 22 Democrats and 112 Republicans voting against it. The spending package, which consists of six spending bills rolled together, will fund roughly three-quarters of the federal...

Twitter After being threatened with a jury trial, attorneys for the U.S. government settled out of court on Monday for $50,000 plus other “remedial” measures, including a public apology.The money goes to the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), and the apology goes to the students from Our Lady of the Rosary School in Greenville, South Carolina.In January 2023,...

AP Images Marjorie Taylor Greene In what is being referred to as a mutiny within the ranks of the House GOP over the passage of the $1.2 trillion spending bill, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has filed a motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson, which could lead to a vote to remove him.Green said of the motion, “I filed...

gerenme/iStock/Getty Images Plus With the decision this past week of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, district attorney not to file charges against anyone involved in a fight in a high school restroom in February — which happened the day before Oklahoma high school sophomore Nex Benedict, a self-described “nonbinary” individual, committed suicide — one would think that this would close the book...

Veit Störmer/iStock/Getty Images Plus Planet Fitness is lying about the gym in Alaska that canceled a woman’s membership because she caught a man in the women’s locker room and complained about him.A reporter for Libs of TikTok called member support to ask about the company’s non-discrimination policy, which permits men to strip naked in front of little girls in the...

marcusamelia/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a victory for the U.S. Constitution against efforts to radically change it, New York has rescinded all its applications for an Article V constitutional convention, or Con-Con.On March 20, the State Assembly passed Senate Resolution No. 1460 (B1460) by a 102-46 vote. Most Democrats voted for the resolution, and most Republicans against, though both parties had two...

AP Images Candace Owens Fire-breathing right-wing commentator Candace Owens, whose unflinching, take-no-prisoners debating style has won her many admirers, including Donald Trump, has parted ways with Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire amid allegations of antisemitism. Owens, who has become the most visible face of black conservatism in recent years, has never been one to shy away from controversy or parse her...

Antwon McMullen/iStock/Getty Images Plus To modern ears, using the term “pagan” pejoratively may smack of a supposed medieval intolerance, conjuring up images of a robed monk praying in candlelight or, maybe, of a Bible-thumping 19th-century missionary. In fact, pagan status may be considered hip and edgy today, embraced by people who rarely if ever know that the ancient pagans never...

Phil Roeder/Flickr Yet another diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrat at a major university has perpetrated major academic fraud, a complaint has alleged.An anonymous allegation and analysis by the Washington Free Beacon charges LaVar Charleston, head of diversity at the University of Wisconsin, with plagiarism and recycling previously published work.The university is already investigating him in another recycling case involving his...

Luis Miguel Long ago, America’s cities were a testament to the nation’s greatness, serving as centers where industry, business, and culture came together. Before Democrats ran the major cities to the ground, places such as Chicago and San Francisco were respected worldwide.Nowadays, it’s no exaggeration to say that those two, and various other, Democrat-dominated cities have become cesspools where literal...