Day: June 20, 2024

On Juneteenth, Alabama’s new National Monument to Freedom dedicated to those who endured slavery

6:41 pm June 20, 2024

Thousands of surnames grace the towering monument, representing the more than 4 million enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War. The Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit, invoked the Juneteenth holiday — the day that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. — on Wednesday as it dedicated its National […]

Shooting at Oakland Juneteenth celebration leaves multiple injured, police say

6:38 pm June 20, 2024

A shooting that erupted at Oakland’s Juneteenth celebrations during an “illegal sideshow involving vehicles and motorbikes” has left several people injured, police say. The Oakland Police Department says the violence broke out around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday when “roughly 5,000 people [were] participating in events at and around Lake Merritt.” “The crowds were peaceful until around 8:15 […]

EPA sued over ‘capricious’ big rig emissions standards critics claim could cripple corn industry

6:37 pm June 20, 2024

One week after challenging the Biden administration’s sweeping new emissions standards for cars and light-duty vehicles, a coalition of agricultural, manufacturing and energy production concerns launched lawsuits to block impending rules on trucks and buses. The new standards apply to “heavy-duty vocational vehicles,” which also include garbage trucks and bobtails. While the Biden administration and […]

Trump vs. Biden: 6 reasons why the left is in a full, hysterical meltdown

6:36 pm June 20, 2024

Editor’s note: The following column was first published on X, formerly known as Twitter. The media is afire with warnings of the impending Donald Trump “dictatorship.” Celebrities, the Squad, and Biden administration grandees vie to conjure up the most nightmarish things that Trump might do to them. What drives their current mounting hysteria? 1. The […]

French rivals Macron, Le Pen decry Jewish girl’s gang rape as antisemitic attack sends pre-election shockwave

5:38 pm June 20, 2024

French President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen, both condemned the gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in what authorities categorized as an antisemitic attack in a Paris suburb. During a Council of Ministers meeting on Wednesday, Macron said that French schools are being threatened by a “scourge of antisemitism” after […]