Day: May 1, 2024

Trump eyes 2 battleground states as he looks to tear down Dem ‘blue wall’ again

8:00 am May 1, 2024

Donald Trump is making the most of his day off from court this week. With the judge in the former president’s first criminal trial using Wednesdays to handle other business from other cases he’s handling, Trump is heading to two crucial states that may decide the winner of his 2024 rematch with President Biden. Trump […]

EcoHealth Alliance president to testify on COVID origins, Wuhan lab taxpayer-funded research

8:00 am May 1, 2024

EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak is expected to publicly testify on Wednesday before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. According to congressional lawmakers, EcoHealth – a U.S.-based nonprofit whose mission is to prevent pandemics – used taxpayer dollars “to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)” in China. COVID […]

NY vs. Trump: A trial in search of an imaginary crime

7:00 am May 1, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Theater of the Absurd entered its third week, still without any evidence of crimes committed by the accused. Playwright Samuel Beckett would be proud. The Trump hush money trial is like “Waiting for Godot” —a chaotic and nonsensical plot of absurdist fiction. The titular Godot, of course, never arrives. It is an […]

NYPD shares glimpse into raid removing anti-Israel agitators from Columbia’s Hamilton Hall

5:16 am May 1, 2024

The New York City Police Department released footage Tuesday night of its raid inside a Columbia University building after being given permission to take it back from anti-Israel agitators. Hamilton Hall, which was overtaken late Monday night, was cleared at around 11 p.m. Tuesday after a nearly two-hour operation by NYPD officers, most of whom […]

White House considers accepting some Palestinians from Gaza as refugees amid Israel-Hamas war

4:13 am May 1, 2024

The Biden administration is considering welcoming certain Palestinians to the U.S. as refugees as they seek to escape war-torn Gaza amid the ongoing war in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas. Senior officials across several federal U.S. agencies have discussed in recent weeks the details of potential options to accept Palestinians from Gaza who […]