Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe stepped in as acting president Friday after the former president officially resigned. Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa unofficially stepped down on Wednesday, according to Reuters, after thousands of protesters stormed his residence and office. Wickremesinghe, whom many hold equally accountable with the former president for the economic catastrophe in Sri Lanka,
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Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo celebrated a “win” on Twitter after New York magazine finally issued a correction on an Intelligencer article from April that misquoted him. “Winning,” Rufo wrote. “New York Magazine’s @jonathanchait fabricated a quotation in an attempt to smear me, but I caught him red-handed and his editors had to retract
The Cobb County School Board, representing the second-largest school district in Georgia, has just passed a plan that will permit some non-law-enforcement staff members to carry guns. However, some objected so strongly to the idea that they attempted to shut down the meeting through shouts and other non-violent disruptions. On Thursday night, the school board
In the face of 40-year-high inflation and abysmal poll numbers where even Democrats don’t want him to run again, Don Lemon was in a foul mood on Wednesday’s Don Lemon Tonight. He scoffed at Biden’s talk about unity by suggesting the American people “are dug in on both sides.” Like CNN and Don Lemon aren’t dug in? As
California is moving ahead with a bill that would offer gender-transition medical treatment not just to in-state children, but also to kids across America. If passed, California’s “trans refuge” bill would allow young people from other states to visit California to receive sex hormones, puberty blockers, and sex-reassignment surgeries. “What’s happened is that there are
So far, most people agree that Republicans are favored to win control of the House of Representatives in the November midterms. Control of the Senate has been a different story. Until now. Political analyst Sean Trende now says Republicans are likely to win the Senate as well. He writes at Real Clear Politics: TRENDING: BREAKING:
In this article TAP Molson Golden and Coors Light beer bottles are pictured at the Asylum bar in New York. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Molson Coors Beverage will return to the Super Bowl next year, making its first appearance during the big game in more than 30 years. The move comes after
The co-executive producer of US comedy show Scrubs has been arrested on multiple charges of sexual assault. Eric Weinberg allegedly targeted young women in public places on the guise of being a photographer offering them work. Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department said the writer would sexually assault the women during photo shoots, which
On CNN’s Don Lemon Tonight, the eponymous host despicably and falsely claimed that 10-year-old girls being forced to cross state lines to get abortions after being raped is “what a post-Roe America looks like.” Lemon also suggested that tragedies like what happened with the 10-year-old girl in Ohio are common in the state. “A 10-year-old
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President Biden has a miserable 33% job approval rating, according to the New York Times/Siena College poll, making him one of the least popular first-term presidents in history. Sixty-four percent of Democrats say they want another candidate in the 2024 presidential race. No modern president, as far as I can tell, has faced higher dissatisfaction
The Biden administration on Wednesday gave the green light to American Airlines to resume service to several locations in Cuba. The decision marks an about-face from the Trump administration which had blocked flights to places in Cuba beside Havana, according to the Associated Press. The U.S. Department of Transportation will allow the airline to conduct
In a piece posted on Insider, a woman said that she got an abortion in her third trimester of pregnancy after she and her husband learned that their unborn daughter had “serious brain malformations.” The byline attributes the piece to Sarah S — an editor’s note explains that the author asked to be referred to
On the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times, national political reporter Alexander Burns warned that newly triggered abortion restrictions (i.e., “the rollback of women’s rights”) threatened to push young talent out of conservative red states, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, as those smart, talented pro-choicers head for abortion-welcoming
Congressional leaders unveiled a statue of education pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune in a ceremony Wednesday in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall. The next day, a Heritage Foundation panel convened to discuss the legacy of Bethune and what her work means today to Americans, as well as the future of education in this country. Bethune, a
On Wednesday, the former owner of the infamous Studio 54 nightclub in Manhattan died by assisted suicide in Switzerland. Mark Fleischman bought and reopened the now defunct club in 1981 after the previous owners were jailed on tax evasion charges. The club was a haven of sex, drugs, and chaos, where stars like Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, and Diana Ross
In this article GM GM EVGO General Motors is building out a new network of EV fast chargers in partnership with Pilot Co., owner of the Pilot and Flying J highway travel centers, and EV charging network EVgo. The companies will install a total of 2,000 fast chargers at 500 of Pilot’s locations along American
Ivana Trump, the first wife of former US president Donald Trump, has died aged 73. Mr Trump made the announcement on his social media platform Truth Social. He wrote: “I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home
Writing Thursday morning at National Review, Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) fellow Nate Hochman penned a scathing examination of CNN political commentator Alyssa Farah Griffin, chronicling her rise from a well-known political family to the upper echelons of conservative political communications to liberal media darling and from Trump supporter to skeptic to card-carrying member of The
Donald Trump says he has made a decision about running for president again in 2024 and that this announcement will come at a later date. The big question, of course, is when that announcement will come. In an interview with New York Magazine, Trump revealed that the “big decision” is whether he will make his
Dennis Prager shares his thoughts on divorce and why the possibility of it is good for a marriage. He also dives into other nuances of the topic including divorcing “too easily,” God’s response, and infidelity. Dennis answers a viewer on where to find unbiased news sources and ends with a reminder that a pain-free life
The founder of a Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ group for young people says he and his staff received death threats when the popular Libs of TikTok account posted about a youth drag show. Libs of TikTok posted on July 5 about the event that was advertised by Outloud North Bay. u201c”Get ready to strut your stuff.” Youth
A group of House Democrats has joined together in a letter urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to support an effort to block the Supreme Court from scrutinizing the constitutionality of the Women’s Health Protection Act, a piece of pro-choice legislation. They want to block the high court
On Thursday, correspondent María Vargas Pión for the Spanish language channel Telemundo knocked on the door of the mother of the 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who told the reporter that the girl is “fine” and “everything that they’re saying against him [the rapist] is a lie.” Despite this drastic turn in the tragedy surrounding this
White progressives do not have the moral authority to excommunicate a black man from his race because they disagree with him. And those—regardless of background—who join in the charade or remain silent are guilty of enabling this abuse. We, the undersigned, condemn the barrage of racist, vicious, and ugly personal attacks that we are witnessing
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Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images More home sellers are dropping their asking prices as rising mortgage interest rates and inflation have slowed down competition in the housing market. Some cities are seeing more price cuts than others. Boise, Idaho, took the lead in June, with 61.5% of sellers cutting their asking prices, according
American basketball star Brittney Griner could face up to a decade behind bars after pleading guilty to drug possession charges at a Russian court. Griner has been detained in Moscow since February after police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage. Now the US government is under growing pressure to do
Some Western leaders envy dictators’ powers. President Donald Trump said, when North Korea’s Kim Jong-un speaks, “his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.” President Barack Obama told reporters it would be so much easier to be the president of China. Canada’s foolish Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, said he
We’re witnessing a political realignment in America today that’s at least as significant as the realignment that happened in the 1960s when blacks deserted the Republican Party and rural whites turned sharply toward the GOP. The Democrats’ “solid South” disappeared and was replaced by a coalition of urban blacks, unionized whites, and white liberals. This