news2shortsExperts warn of slowing economy after score based on Americans’ financial outlooks fell by 32% since January US consumer sentiment plummeted in April after Donald Trump’s trade war threw the global economy into chaos, according to a new report. The index of consumer sentiment, a score based on a monthly survey asking Americans about their … Read more
President Donald Trump slammed Harvard University as an “[antisemitic], far-left institution” and a “threat to democracy” amid growing tensions between his administration and the university. “Harvard is an [antisemitic], far-left institution, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the world that want to rip our country apart. The place is a … Read more
President Donald Trump isn’t “trolling” when it comes to efforts to acquire Greenland and make Canada the 51st state. Trump has discussed acquiring Greenland, Canada and Panama for months — and has regularly referred to Canada as the 51st U.S. state. Despite skepticism from some, Trump said in an interview with Tine magazine published Friday … Read more
Former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., has been sentenced to 87 months in prison on felony fraud charges. NBC News’ Rehema Ellis has details on the sentence and how Santos came to face the charges.
Shabtai, a Jewish society based at Yale, hosted the extremist far-right politician convicted of supporting terrorism. Why did Yale allow this? Let me start with a statement that should be obvious: deliberately starving 2 million people – half of whom are children – is indefensible. It is not complicated, it is not a nuanced situation … Read more
Florida Republicans are embroiled in a civil war — Gov. Ron DeSantis has excoriated state House leadership, accusing them of revolting against voters who sent them to the legislative chamber and pursuing a “swamp-centric agenda,” while Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez has lambasted DeSantis, asserting that the governor has “become the swamp.” With massive majorities … Read more
Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley exhort authorities to free Rümeysa Öztürk, calling her treatment ‘repression’ A group of high-profile Democratic lawmakers has called on the Donald Trump administration to immediately release the Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, praised her “unwavering spirit” and warned that the White House is engaging in “repression”. In a New … Read more
President’s international engagements have set stage for explosive confrontations and Pope Francis’s funeral comes at an especially fraught moment A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of Donald Trump flying to the Vatican this weekend and publicly feuding with international leaders in front of St Peter’s Basilica in the midst of the sombre rituals and … Read more
Five Jewish Democratic senators demanded answers from President Donald Trump on the calculus behind penalizing Harvard University, its medical school and other collegiate institutions across the country under what they called the pretext of antisemitism on campus. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Sens. Adam Schiff of California, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, … Read more
Would the legendary American writer have welcomed the publication of her therapy notes? It seems unlikely Joan Didion entered the fray on the publication of Ernest Hemingway’s unfinished final manuscript in an essay titled Last Words in 1998: “You think something is in shape to be published or you don’t, and Hemingway didn’t,” she wrote. You … Read more
