The laptop from hell was apparently a legitimate news story after all, according to an acknowledgment this week from the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth — who now admits the Hunter Biden laptop story should not have been censored on the platform in the heat of the 2020 presidential election. … Read more
Going around Congress, the Biden administration said Saturday it has approved the emergency sale to Israel of nearly 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition worth more than $106 million as Israel intensifies its military operations in the southern Gaza Strip. The move comes as President Biden’s request for a nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, … Read more
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden was indicted on nine tax charges in California as a special counsel investigation into the business dealings of President Joe Biden’s son intensifies against the backdrop of the 2024 election. The new charges filed Thursday — three felonies and six misdemeanors — are in addition … Read more
Like a blindly devoted wife finally figuring out that her abusive husband is never going to change his ways, some California Democrats are slowly waking up to the reality that life under a Democratic administration can be Groundhog Day when it comes to crime. A Los Angeles business owner whose company was targeted by thieves … Read more
The Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted a district court order on Friday that would have allowed a Texas woman carrying a fetus with a fatal condition to obtain an abortion, following a request from state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton. Kate Cox, 31, a mother of two young children in the Dallas area, is 20 weeks … Read more
SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) — A trio of Republican presidential candidates shared stories of family and faith before hundreds of voters in northwest Iowa on Saturday, in congenial individual conversations with their hosts not long after the campaign’s latest fractious debate. But off the stage at a small Christian college in Sioux Center, the rivals’ … Read more
Federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s claim that Canada can achieve carbon neutrality in 2050 while simultaneously increasing oil and gas production is “incoherent.” Smith has long argued that carbon neutrality is about a transition away from emissions and not a transition away from oil and gas production, a source of … Read more
Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) launched an appeal for campaign donations this week with a series of ads calling on her supporters to “fight back against AIPAC and its dark money super PAC.” But what makes this particularly notable is the venue where she chose to do it — X/Twitter, which … Read more
APTOS — A group of beachfront homeowners in Aptos are facing millions in potential fines levied by the California Coastal Commission following allegations that they have obstructed the public’s access to a walkway next to Seacliff State Beach for decades. Citing violations as far back as 1982, the commission will weigh a staff recommendation to … Read more
Days after a top US general publicly predicted that the US will be at war with China by 2025, the Pentagon has confirmed that a Chinese spy balloon is currently floating over the continental US — it was spotted over Montana as recently as yesterday — with officials also briefing reporters that they’ve decided not … Read more
