Haley Raises $500k Post DeSantis
Following the exit of chief rival Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the campaign for Nikki Haley has announced a $500k haul in donations. The former U.N. Ambassador is hopeful that the DeSantis drop out will send both voters and cash toward her efforts to dethrone the current Republican front-runner Donald Trump. The news comes as Haley […]
Congressmen Demand NIH Info on Dog And Cat Labs
A bipartisan group of 23 congressmen have sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health demanding details on the agency’s funding of experiments on dogs and cats. The letter cites the White Coat Waste Project’s BeagleGate exposé of dog labs and other ongoing probes into NIH-funded dog and cat experiments that they consider to […]
DeSantis: Media, Legal Woes Stoke GOP Loyalty to Trump
The conservative media and former President Donald Trump’s mounting legal woes are keeping Republicans from moving on, according to former White House contender Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. In remarks to New Hampshire Today with Chris Ryan, DeSantis said the rise in Trump’s support correlated with the rise in his legal woes. The interview was conducted […]
The Economist/YouGov. Poll: Trump Up 3 With Independents
Donald Trump’s resounding victory in the Iowa caucuses last week has carried over to independents according to a new poll from The Economist/YouGov. The survey results appear to reflect the country at large with the two likely candidates running within the typical margin of error showing 44% for Biden and 43% for Trump. Yet, among […]
Yemen’s Houthis Attack US Military Cargo Ship in Gulf of Aden
Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Monday its forces had carried out an attack against American military cargo ship Ocean Jazz in the Gulf of Aden. “The Yemeni armed forces continue to retaliate to any American or British aggression against our country by targeting all sources of threat in the Red and Arab Sea,” the Houthi […]
Iran ‘Directly Involved’ in Ship Attacks, US Admiral Says
Iran is “very directly involved” in ship attacks that Yemen’s Houthi rebels have carried out during Israel’s war against Hamas, the U.S. Navy’s top Mideast commander told The Associated Press on Monday. Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of the Navy’s 5th Fleet, stopped short of saying Tehran directed individual attacks by the Houthis in […]
Sen. Blackburn Focused on Trump Win, Not VP
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., refused to get involved in discussion about being former President Donald Trump’s potential running mate in the general election. Blackburn is among those to be mentioned as a possible vice-presidential choice for Trump, the clear front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. “All of my energy is going to make certain that […]
Musk: Audits Prove Less Antisemitism on X Than Other Apps
Social media company X’s platform has less antisemitic content compared with other applications, according to audits it has commissioned, X owner Elon Musk said Monday at a conference on combating antisemitism. Musk visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau site of a former Nazi German concentration camp earlier in the day, before appearing at the conference in the southern […]
US Sanctions Iraqi Airline, Its CEO, Hamas Crypto Financiers
The U.S. on Monday hit Iraqi airline Fly Baghdad and its CEO with sanctions, alleging assistance to Iran’s military wing — and in addition, imposed a fifth round of sanctions on the terrorist group Hamas for abuse of cryptocurrency since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. The sanctions come as Israel’s bombing campaign on […]
S&P 500 Hits Fresh Record High
The benchmark S&P 500 scaled a fresh record high Monday, extending a bull-market run into a new week on a boost from megacap and chip stocks, while corporate earnings and clues on rate cuts continued to top investors’ radar. The S&P 500 hit a new record high, surpassing Friday’s high of 4,842.07 points, as megacaps […]