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The Maine official who moved to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot on Thursday visited the White House this year to meet with President Biden and previously referred to the Electoral College as a “relic of white supremacy.” On two separate occasions this year — once in March and … Read more
Brought together by a Bay Area volunteer program, Nathaniel Todd and Bruce Armstrong found support and solace in each other Bruce Armstrong thought it was going to be an awkward call. It was the summer of 2020, and the San Francisco venture capitalist had responded to a newspaper ad placed by Miracle Messages, a Bay … Read more
PragerU, known for making conservative web videos, has gotten a line of cartoon videos and education materials, called PragerU Kids, into public schools in four states.
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says the time for Americans to address systemic racism is long gone, and that racism has dwindled to near irrelevance in the U.S. Ramaswamy made the comments during a campaign stop in Iowa on Friday, telling his audience that contemporary efforts to combat systemic racism are only worsening the issue. … Read more
As with the printing press and the dotcom boom, initial frenzy and speculation obscures the lasting legacy of new technologies “Innovation,” wrote the economist William Janeway in his seminal book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, “begins with discovery and culminates in speculation.” That just about sums up 2023. The discovery was AI (as represented … Read more
The Los Angeles sheriff’s department (LASD) released body-camera footage on Friday of an officer fatally shooting Niani Finlayson, 27, who had called 911 for help during a domestic violence incident. The footage from the 4 December encounter showed that deputy Ty Shelton shot Finlayson four times within roughly three seconds of entering her home. The … Read more
In 1965, police publicly raided a sanctioned drag ball, inadvertently raising awareness of police brutality against the LGBTQ+ community As 2024 draws near, LGBTQ+ activists are taking stock of a traumatic year for the queer community. Lawmakers across the country introduced hundreds of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, with particular emphasis on trans people. Now, as queer folks … Read more
The Medicaid “unwinding” that began after eligibility checks resumed this year led millions of people to lose coverage. Texas has the most disenrollments.
Former US Open champion set to play in Auckland next weekNaomi Osaka also returning to court at Brisbane International Emma Raducanu says she feels “reborn” as the former US Open champion prepares to return to action at next week’s Auckland Classic after ankle and wrist surgeries. The 21-year-old is now ranked 298th in the world, … Read more
SB4, scheduled to go into effect on 5 March, is one of the strictest immigration laws ever passed in American history The US Department of Justice has threatened to sue the state of Texas if it implements a law that would allow state police to arrest any person deemed suspicious of crossing the border illegally. … Read more
