On this day in history, Aug. 2, 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act of 1939 — known formally as An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities — into U.S. federal law, according to History.com. This legislation prohibits civil service employees in the executive branch of the federal government from engaging in some...
Huw Edwards, the BBC’s former top news presenter, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of making indecent images of children. The offenses he pleaded guilty to at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in central London during a 26-minute hearing involved images shared on WhatsApp between December 2020 and August 2021. Edwards has been remanded on bail until...
EXCLUSIVE: Project 2025, the right-leaning Heritage Foundation’s vision for building a “better country for all Americans” during a conservative presidential administration, will be releasing a response to critics who have characterized the endeavor as far-right and extreme. While former President Trump has repeatedly denied any collaboration with Project 2025, its detractors are primarily on the...
President Biden’s latest call to overhaul the Supreme Court and his warning that “extremism is undermining public confidence” in the bench, is part of an ongoing pattern of institutional criticism, some legal experts have said. Biden called Monday for term limits and ethics guardrails for the justices to “prevent abuse of presidential power and restore...
A federal judge on Friday permanently blocked part of Florida’s “Stop Woke Act” that was pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and other GOP lawmakers to ban critical race theory training in the workplace and in education. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker granted a permanent injunction against the part of the law that prohibited...
FIRST ON FOX – Members of a synagogue in Los Angeles have filed a lawsuit against three major protest groups for organizing a “riot” that “violently blocked Jews” from their place of worship last month. “Targeting Jewish families on their way to exercise their religious freedom at a house of worship is abhorrent and has...
Allowing a boyfriend, girlfriend or family member to live on your property without their name on the lease or deed can seem harmless at first, but if things go awry, it may be more difficult to get the individual removed than you’d think. Squatter stories have popped up around the United States, including in the...
PITTSBURGH – Former President Trump could have used the assassination attempt against him to further divide a politically fractured nation, but he instead chose to try to unify by exhibiting strength and offering an inclusive RNC message, the GOP congressional candidate running in the shooter’s home district said. James Hayes, the son of a steelworker...
A Missouri judge halted St. Louis’ guaranteed income program while it’s being challengedin court. Circuit Judge Joseph P. Whyte on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order against the St. Louis Guaranteed Basic Income Project (GBI). This move will impact more than 500 families who were participating in the GBI program. “The City of St. Louis...
The United Nation’s top court has ruled Israel’s settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal, and they must be removed immediately. “The State of Israel is under the obligation to bring an end to its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible,” ICJ President Nawaf Salam said when he delivered the...
