Day: March 31, 2025

UConn star Paige Bueckers’ lack of popularity in tourney has racial component to it, ex-NBA player suggests

9:47 pm March 31, 2025

UConn Huskies women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers has performed at a high level during the NCAA Tournament and most recently scored 40 points in a Sweet 16 game against Oklahoma. Anyone who had been following Bueckers since the beginning of her collegiate career knows that games like the one against the Sooners were par for […]

New poll shows where Trump stands 10 weeks into his second tour of duty in the White House

9:38 pm March 31, 2025

President Donald Trump took to social media on Monday, to showcase the speed at which he’s acted during the first two and a half months of his second administration. “107 executive orders signed in 67 days, more than any in American history,” the president wrote in a social media post. Trump has been expanding the […]

$3B LA lawsuit could ‘destroy’ gulf energy industry, critics warn, as state’s position questioned

9:30 pm March 31, 2025

U.S. energy interests warn that if the first of several expected lawsuits over decades of land loss — an issue widely acknowledged as a crisis — succeeds, it could threaten the future of American energy exploration. Plaquemines Parish, a coastal jurisdiction south of New Orleans — which would be called a “county” in most other […]

Columbia grads shred diplomas over Mahmoud Khalil arrest: ‘We are enraged’

9:27 pm March 31, 2025

Columbia University students and graduates gathered over the weekend to protest the school’s recent acquiescence to the Trump administration’s demands to combat antisemitism at the school, and the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian ringleader on campus. During the protests, several graduate students from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) shredded their own […]

El Salvador accepts more alleged Tren de Aragua gang members from Trump admin

9:26 pm March 31, 2025

The U.S. military transferred a group of 17 alleged members of Tren de Aragua and MS-13 to El Salvador from Guantanamo Bay on Sunday night, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. Rubio said in a statement posted on X that the alleged gang members included murderers and rapists. “In order to keep the American people […]