Columbia University is under fire for a Thursday night update on the anti-Israel protest that has dominated the New York City campus. “The talks have shown progress and are continuing as planned,” the college said in a statement on its website. “For several days, a small group of faculty, administrators,...

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The young man pressured by his high school to remove the American flag from his truck surely knew his choice had irrevocable consequences either way. However, at the moment, he probably had no idea the good things that would follow once he made up his mind to stand his ground....

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President Joe Biden campaigned on transparency in 2020 en route to the White House. In her first press briefing, former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki spoke to reporters  about the "importance of bringing truth and transparency back to the briefing room." However, the reality has been so far...

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Former soccer star Megan Rapinoe appears to not have learned her lesson whatsoever, advocating for transgender athletes to compete in women's sporting events even though she lost to a team of teenage boys a few years ago. On Tuesday, Rapinoe signed a letter along with numerous other athletes that called...

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The official cause of death of former football star and actor O.J. Simpson was announced Friday by his attorney and the executor of his estate. Malcolm Lavergne, who had been Simpson’s legal representative since 2009, confirmed to Fox News that the 76-year-old died of metastatic prostate cancer. It is not...

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A Wisconsin middle-school student is being celebrated as a hero after he jumped to get control of a school bus this week when the driver experienced a medical emergency. Acie Holland III, an eighth-grader at Glen Hills Middle School in Glendale, was on a district school bus Wednesday after school...

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A substitute teacher was behind bars on Friday after a video that went viral on social media showed him and a high school student fighting in a Las Vegas school hallway a day earlier. According to one report, the fight between the adult and the teen broke out after a...

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Four years ago, a lethal contagion spread across the United States. A plague of cowardice far deadlier than the coronavirus gripped school administrators throughout the land. And it claimed among its victims the high school seniors of 2020, who saw their graduation ceremonies canceled amid the panic. This spring, many...

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The teenage daughter of a high-tech billionaire goes missing, and one’s thoughts go to the possibility of abduction or kidnapping for ransom. Police don’t think that’s the case, but present a different theory that could be just as bad -- or even worse. Sixteen-year-old Mint Butterfield was reported missing Monday,...

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Joe Biden alone has already caused the price of everyday staples to soar, but there are other pressures also forcing an increased burden to fall on all Americans. Thanks to those external pressures, this month, yet another staple food item has soared to prices that won't come down any time...

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As an acrimonious battle rages over the gag order issued against former President Donald Trump in his current New York City trial, Trump emerged from court Thursday with happy talk about the day’s events. Trump was facing a hearing on Thursday over allegations from prosecutors that he violated the gag...

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As a neophyte graduate student in history in the late 1990s, I once asked a veteran professor how he managed to focus on grad school during the campus protests of the Vietnam Era. "Easy," he replied. "You went to the library." In other words, the protesters might take themselves seriously,...

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Should a curious soul wandering the wilds of the internet find the 2019 podcast comedian Andrew Santino did with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, there might be something that makes a viewer wonder. All the way through the one-hour show, there is a huge Kansas City Chiefs logo...

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The first season of Max's adult cartoon "Velma" was truly an affront to anyone with fond memories of the cherished Hanna-Barbera creation "Scooby-Doo." "Velma" was a radical, modernist re-imagining of the classic cartoon that's been around since 1969. But instead of a charismatic and cowardly doggy leading an astoundingly competent...

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Full disclosure: As an Asian man who grew up in Hawaii, I had never heard the acronym "AAPI" or "API" (Asian American or just Asian-Pacific Islander) in my life before 2020, and I despise using it. With that being said, that tidbit also especially qualifies me to opine on this...

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A youth soccer match scheduled at a public field in East Harlem, New York, was abruptly canceled when a group of migrants refused to vacate the field. The Manhattan Kickers, a 17-year-old boys travel team, were geared up for a match against FA New York at Thomas Jefferson Park on...

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Since 1996, American analytics company Gallup has been polling the American public on their support for so-called gay "marriage." That was the same year the Clinton administration signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, prohibiting same-sex marriage from being recognized at the federal level. Far from any...

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The shamelessness with which President Joe Biden has let lies drop from his mouth has been truly breathtaking. There has seemed to be nothing that Biden would not lie about, from the circumstances surrounding the death of his son Beau, to his own academic record, to the death of his...

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One day after the New York Times criticized President Joe Biden for "actively and effectively avoid[ing] questions from independent journalists during his term," Biden may have been looking to rehabilitate his image as a president too scared to take tough questions. In a statement on Thursday, The Times warned that "systematically avoiding...

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Most UFO sightings probably weren't of alien spacecraft straight out of Star Trek or Star Wars, but that wouldn't have made them any less of a potential threat. They could have been weather balloons, high-flying wildlife, misidentified military crafts, or -- a more sinister possibility -- drones or other spy...

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Even as his economic policies have made life harder for every middle- and lower-income American, Joe Biden is now pledging to make it all even worse by making sure the tax cuts put in place by former President Donald Trump will be "dead forever" if he is re-elected. Biden made...

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