A masked, hooded teen mob was caught on video racing into a New York City restaurant last weekend and completely trashing the place, flipping tables and chairs — and then quickly leaving after about a minute “with no money, no nothing, just to wreak havoc,” as one city official put it. What are the details?

Global lending firm Silicon Valley Bank, which has mainly served tech companies and venture capital firms, collapsed last week after 40 years in business, and now some are blaming the company’s recent “woke” business practices for its demise. On Friday, the California Department of Financial Protection announced that SVB, based in Santa Clara, California, had

Tommy Christopher at Mediaite boasted of exclusive access to Muslim comedian and Sirius XM satellite radio host Dean Obeidallah asking White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if Congress should give the FCC the power to remove their er, broadcast license after the cable news network’s communications were revealed in the Dominion defamation lawsuit. DEAN OBEIDALLAH: Look, the FCC

Florida long has been a leading state for education freedom and choice. It was no surprise when Florida ranked first in the nation last year in The Heritage Foundation’s inaugural Education Freedom Report Card. “Florida’s schoolchildren are thriving because we invest in our students, and we empower parents to decide what learning environment is best

The NBA’s uncomfortably sycophantic relationship with China (and its money) has officially drawn the ire of multiple GOP lawmakers — and it’s all thanks to the Lunar New Year. To wit, back in January, The Spectator reported on how China stealthily went about “exerting its soft power” after a video aired during a Jan. 21 game

New York’s State Liquor Authority is moving to strip Madison Square Garden and associated venues of their liquor licenses, according to an exclusive scoop in Saturday’s New York Post. “This gangster-like governmental organization has finally run up against an entity that won’t cower in the face of their outrageous abuses,” 67-year-old James Dolan told the

Police said a Maryland mother entered a middle school earlier this week then confronted and grabbed the arm of her daughter’s alleged bully — a 12-year-old girl. The mother in question is now charged with assault. What are the details? Police said Aberdeen Middle School staff let 41-year-old Kelly Sadik into the building around 8:15

PBS NewsHour host Amna Nawaz grilled former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is weighing a presidential bid for the Republican nomination, on Friday’s show. After the inevitable Trump-related queries, Nawaz peppered the genial Hutchison about recent supposedly “extreme” legislation from Arkansas about transgender and bathroom issues, while taking her own extreme stance. (This is the

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Members and allies of the detransitioner community met in front of the California State Capitol here Friday ahead of Detrans Awareness Day. Attendees included notable detrans activists, such as Abel Garcia. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California has become a hot spot in recent years for radical activists and politicians seeking to provide quick and unfettered

Another crypto exchange is in the news and it’s not good. According to CNBC: U.S. cryptocurrency firm Circle has $3.3 billion of its $40 billion of USD Coin reserves at the collapsed lender Silicon Valley Bank, the company said in a tweet on Friday. The stablecoin company’s announcement comes after startup-focused SVB collapsed on Friday

The Washington Post in a Friday profile about a fired transgender diversity officer at New College of Florida used “zir” as a pronoun in reference to the fired diversity officer — Yoleidy Rosario-Hernandez — and also noted that Rosario-Hernandez “uses ze/zir pronouns.” Readers in the comments section of the story didn’t appear very receptive to

A cleaning crew found $5.4 million worth of drugs and a sizable stash of weapons at a short-term rental in Scottsdale, Arizona, KPNX reported. “It was a large quantity of illegal drugs that were discovered in that residence,” Sgt. Kevin Quon, a public information officer with Scottsdale Police Department told the outlet. “The street value

This week House Speaker Kevin McCarthy released over 40,000 hours of unseen-by-the-public video from inside the Capitol, all of it taken on January 6, 2021.  McCarthy gave it to Fox’s Tucker Carlson, who promptly had his team going through all of it. Then he ran chunks of it on multiple nights of his show at

YUMA COUNTY, Ariz. – It was 3 a.m. and a line of about 40 illegal aliens stretched along a section of the border wall waiting to be transported to the local processing center. Behind the group stood another 50 people who had crossed the border illegally into Yuma County, Arizona.   A large white bus

Guest post by Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. Chinese scientists working in the United States and supported by U.S. taxpayers are thumbing their noses at Joe Biden’s China policies. In December 2021, Biden’s Department of Commerce added China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences to a list of entities “acting contrary to the foreign policy or national security

A teacher who had been celebrated as the teacher of the year in San Diego County was re-arrested on additional charges after she was initially arrested for numerous incidents of alleged child sex abuse. Sixth-grade teacher Jacqueline Ma was first arrested on Tuesday for allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with one of her former students

While expressing pro-choice sentiments during an appearance on “The View,” left-wing actress and activist Jane Fonda mentioned “murder” as a way to ensure that women have access to abortions, but she has since issued a statement claiming that her comment was meant as a joke. “We have experienced many decades now of having agency over

National Public Radio’s Morning Edition came close to justifying the destructive attacks on a police-and-firefighter training facility being built in woods near Atlanta, in which 23 people were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism after a sort of violent jamboree unfolded Sunday in which “civil-rights” and anti-police protesters joined with environmental activists and black-clad Antifa,

After reviewing some 41,000 hours of security camera videos, Tucker Carlson and his Fox News team this week refuted numerous lies that Democrats have trafficked since Jan. 6, 2021. The following are the five biggest: Footage from outside the Capitol shows an initial cadre of violent extremists breaking windows and kicking down doors. “It was awful,” Carlson

New York City Mayor Eric Adams now wants to offer free college to illegal immigrants, on the taxpayers’ dime naturally. It was recently reported that it’s costing New York City up to $5 million dollars a day to house and feed illigal immigrants. Now Adams wants to add to that expense? So far, the program

A podcaster and her husband were shot and killed by a fan who had been stalking the woman for months, said police in Washington state. The harrowing incident unfolded at about 2 a.m. Friday when the man broke into the home in Redmond, a city of about 73,000 people east of Seattle. Police said they

Authorities in Chatham County, Georgia, believe that a man was killed while attempting to steal a catalytic converter. According to the Chatham County Police Department, the evidence suggests that the individual who was discovered dead under a vehicle had been unlawfully removing the part when the vehicle fell on him. “Chatham County Police Department detectives

The Catholic cable network EWTN and Franciscan University are holding a conference on “Journalism In a Post-Truth World” on Friday and Saturday in DC, at the National Museum of the Bible. I was invited to bring our perspective to how media bias distorts the news. Despite naming our website NewsBusters, we want to be pro-journalism,

House Republicans pointed to the success of state election reforms during a hearing Friday, citing high turnout and smooth operations in the 2022 midterm elections as evidence.  Despite such results, House Democrats insisted Americans are having difficulty voting. In part, they blamed laws passed in almost half the states in 2021 and early 2022, among

Wells Fargo on Friday scrambled to respond to customers who reported deposits were missing from their accounts. Customers complained about missing deposits in their accounts. Many customers were unable to pay bills or buy groceries. Our technical teams are aware and are working to resolve the issue, and I apologize for the inconvenience. Also, Any

Remember when the Biden administration left a wake of chaos and horror in Afghanistan in 2021? It’s disturbing that there have been so many disasters throughout Biden’s term that the Afghanistan withdrawal has been buried under the president’s many botched efforts. But not everyone has had the luxury of letting the incident slip into the

President Joe Biden released his budget request for fiscal 2024 on Thursday, prompting Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to conclude that socialists, not the accident-prone octogenarian, are running the White House. Cruz told Fox News’ Sean Hannity, “The sad truth is the socialists are in charge of the White House. Joe Biden certainly isn’t.” The people

Teachers these days are forgetting that their jobs are to teach, not groom kids. A sixth grade teacher who won Teacher of the Year in San Diego was just arrested on accusations of sexual misconduct with a child. Seriously, where are they finding these people? Jacqueline Ma was arrested on Tuesday morning at Lincoln Acres

The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should—in a just world—refocus American attention on the glaring problem of transnational drug cartels’ de facto control of large swaths of our perilously porous southern border. That the two Americans killed may have been mistaken by warring cartel clans

The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill. As TGP’s Jim Hoft reported, the hearing focused on the weaponization of the government as identified in the Twitter Files releases. Here were the witnesses: Matt Taibbi, Journalist Michael Shellenberger, Author, Co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and