Month: May 2025

Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson laid into DOGE and President Donald Trump’s economic policies during his weekly press availability, drawing parallels between the Third Reich in Germany and the mogul’s second term. Johnson said the Windy City is the most “pro-worker” city in the U.S. but faces “hostility” from Washington: “The fact that the President…

NPR CEO Katherine Maher assured PBS on Wednesday that her outlet is “non-partisan” following President Donald Trump’s latest executive order seeking to defund the station.  In an interview on “PBS NewsHour,” the NPR boss trashed Trump’s executive order to “cease Federal funding for NPR,” calling it “viewpoint discrimination” and saying that Trump is just taking…

A lawsuit claims that a former Seton Hall pitcher was the subject of hazing by his teammates, including gross sexual acts. The former pitcher, whose name has not been publicly identified, said he was “spitting blood everywhere” during one incident, and the hazing dashed his dream of making the big leagues. The lawsuit claims that…

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., sided with a Chicago-area toy company on Thursday, blocking five executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that imposed tariffs on Chinese imports. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras determined the International Economic Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not authorize Trump to impose the tariffs in his executive orders….

Elite universities deserve all the opprobrium they’ve been getting. They’ve discriminated on the basis of race in admissions and hiring, required loyalty oaths in the form of diversity statements, and allowed agitators to disrupt classes, block access to facilities, and wage mass campaigns of intimidation and harassment. The liberal left hand knew what the illiberal…

Michael Sumler, a longtime member of the legendary R&B and funk band Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 71.  Sumler, who originally worked as the band’s wardrobe valet before joining the group as a backing vocalist and onstage performer, was involved in a fatal car crash in Mableton, Georgia, on May 25 and…

The estimated revenue impact of the GOP tax plan would be nearly $4 trillion in the negative over a decade, the Joint Committee on Taxation — a nonpartisan committee of the U.S. Congress — has indicated. A document issued by the committee puts the net total estimated revenue effects at -$3.939368 trillion for fiscal years…