USA Update

So much for kumbaya. A self-proclaimed imam speaking at a CUNY City College interfaith event went into a Jew-hating tirade, urging Muslim students to leave in protest after complaining that a "Zionist" was present.

President Donald Trump’s lies about our murdered columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, overshadowed the more tangible deliverables handed to Mohammed bin Salman during the Saudi crown prince’s visit this week. On balance, Mohammed gained more from the trip than the United States, though the Trump family’s businesses stand to profit handsomely from private deals with the Saudis. […]

President Donald Trump unleashed another attack on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, calling for the firing of the independent agency chief who has just months left in his term. Experts this week suggested eroding the Fed’s independence could trigger stagflation. In a speech at the U.S.—Saudi Investment Forum on Wednesday, President Trump urged his Secretary […]

Month-old photographs of a comet do not typically fuel conspiracy theories of an imminent alien invasion. But this is not quite an ordinary comet; 3I/ATLAS came from beyond the solar system and is now on its way back out to the empty interstellar reaches of the Milky Way. The federal government’s recent 43-day-long shutdown added […]

House lawmakers unanimously passed legislation Wednesday aimed at forestalling terrorist use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) amid fears that the technology could help develop chemical, nuclear, and other advanced weapons.

Interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan suggested Wednesday that the Biden-appointed judge overseeing the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey violated judicial conduct rules by asking if she was a “puppet” of President Trump

Another one of President Donald Trump’s government officials may be using Signal to conduct official business at the Department of Justice, according to a watchdog group. American Oversight sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday, arguing that Ed Martin, who leads the DOJ’s Weaponization of Government […]

Retired Colonel Robert L. Stirm, an Air Force pilot whose return home to his family after more than five years of captivity in North Vietnam was the subject of a jubilant Pulitzer Prize-winning photo — an image that hid the painful truth about his marriage ending, died on Nov. 11 in Fairfield, Calif. He was […]

The political events of the last year have intensified debates around issues that affect our daily lives — in our children’s classrooms, at the doctor’s office and at the grocery store and gas station. In article after article, people have described a heightened sense of division, sometimes in surprising ways. We want to hear about […]

Trump gave Musk not one, but three, shout-outs during a business-focused speech before Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.